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单词 rotating
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rotatingn.

Brit. /rə(ʊ)ˈteɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈroʊˌteɪdɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rotate v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < rotate v. + -ing suffix1. Compare earlier rotation n.
The action of rotate v.; rotation.
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1794 W. Peckitt Wonderful Love God to Men 94 This Essence, by its respective rotating of its espirits or Espirit..gives elastic flexability to its substance.
1848 Civil Engin. & Architect's Jrnl. Jan. 23/2 The longest radius of the cam is brought to bear upon the lower anti-friction roller by means of the rotating of the horizontal shaft.
1887 H. C. Chapman Treat. Human Physiol. liii. 863 The change in the pitch of the sound emitted by the upper siren induced by the rotating of the handle.
1921 Med. Woman's Jrnl. Oct. 141/2 Two exercises, each performed ten times—the squatting exercise and the rotating of the body with alternating arms up and down.
2002 P. Kerman Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash MX in 24 Hours 525 Use the Rotate option of the Transform tool to rotate the line 90 degrees. 5. Click away from the line (to stop the rotating).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rotatingadj.

Brit. /rə(ʊ)ˈteɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈroʊˌteɪdɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rotate v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < rotate v. + -ing suffix2. Compare earlier rotated adj.1
1.
a. That rotates about a centre or axis; that undergoes or consists of rotation.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > revolving or rotating
rolling?1518
turning1558
gyreful1566
gyring1590
revoluble1598
ambient?1614
vertiginous1680
revolving1681
rotating1757
veering1798
gyratory1815
peristrephic1816
peristrephical1827
gyral1828
gyrating1837
volutory1839
volvent1898
1757 tr. A. Haller Diss. Motion Blood iv. 75 No rotating or winding motion is observed in the veins.
1788 W. Black Compar. View Mortality Human Species 3 Numbers of those stars, most luminous and proximate, are arranged into arbitrary clusters..and serve to mark the several stages of the rotating orbs in our system.
1863 J. Tyndall Heat i. 10 The edge of a swiftly rotating wheel.
1875 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. (ed. 2) iv. 82 If the veering of the former, and the marked fall of the latter prove the gale to be rotating, or cyclonic.
1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxxii. 564 Heating with ferric oxide in rotating cylinders.
1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 21 A rotating mass of water would tend to have its motion retarded by the action of eddies smaller than itself.
1996 Chesapeake Bay Mag. Feb. 50/1 He nailed a rotating wheel to a tree and placed ears of field corn on each spoke.
b. Causing rotation; rotatory.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > causing rotation
rotatory1787
rotating1794
1794 W. Peckitt Wonderful Love God to Men 27 The central Espirit of the Sun, by its extremely swift rotating force..distended the same to greater magnitude.
1848 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. I. 169 The rotating force is also induced by ordinary magnets in the same manner as by electro-magnets.
1883 J. Millington Are we to read Backwards? 67 The rotating muscles have a much more numerous amount of contractions to effect.
1932 Amer. Speech 7 266 Drill pipe.., heavy steel pipe which composes the column connecting the bit with the rotating apparatus at the surface.
2008 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 27 May 6 a Small trees in a cluster had been bent, tipped and snapped inward, suggesting rotating forces of a tornado.
2. Acting in rotation; recurring at regular intervals, rotative.The c1695 example given in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Rotating regency appears to be erroneous.
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the world > time > change > alternation > rotation > [adjective]
rotary1758
rotatory1766
rotative1771
rotational1788
rotating1854
1854 17th Ann. Rep. Board Educ. Mass. 111 The office of prudential committee is usually a rotating office.
1884 Athenæum 19 Jan. 82/3 Four rotating regents conducted the classes of philosophy or arts.
1922 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 22 June 858/2 Others who contend that we need a greater number of men trained in the general application of surgical, medical and obstetrical methods may feel house officers should be given a rotating service.
1975 Sat. Night (Toronto) July–Aug. 18/2 It has been the unions in the public service, not surprisingly, who have perfected the kind of random sniper-fire known as ‘selective’ strikes or ‘rotating’ strikes or ‘twenty-four-hour’ strikes.
1990 Flight Internat. 25 July 54/1 (advt.) You will be one of five Duty Managers working rotating shifts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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