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Rotary vs Rota - What's the difference?

rotary | rota |

As nouns the difference between rotary and rota

is that rotary is a traffic circle while rota is a schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.

As an adjective rotary

is having or being capable of having rotation.

rotary

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having or being capable of having rotation.
  • :A rotary engine revolves the heads rather than having pistons go back and forth.

    • Noun

    (rotaries)
  • (New England) A traffic circle.
  • Usually with a capital initial, short for , an international club for community service.

    • rota

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.
    • See also
    * roster

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * rotta

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (musici) A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music.
    • (Webster 1913)

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