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Routine vs Rotate - What's the difference?

routine | rotate |

As a noun routine

is .

As a verb rotate is

to spin, turn, or revolve.

As an adjective rotate is

having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.

routine

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
  • A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
  • :
  • *
  • *:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
  • A set piece of an entertainer's act.
  • (label) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • According to established procedure.
  • Regular; habitual.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
  • Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 3, author=David Ornstein, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Macc Tel-Aviv 1-2 Stoke , passage=Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel.}}

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    rotate

    English

    Verb

    (rotat)
  • to spin, turn, or revolve.
    • He rotated in his chair to face me.
  • to advance through a sequence; to take turns.
    • The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
  • (of aircraft) to lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.
    • The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
  • to spin, turn, or revolve something.
    • Rotate the dial to the left.
  • to advance something through a sequence.
  • to replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.
    • The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.
  • (of crops) to grow or plant in a certain order.

    • Synonyms

    * (to turn) revolve * (to make turn) circumvolve

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Related terms

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    Adjective

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  • Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
    • a rotate''' spicule or scale; a '''rotate corolla
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