Rotary
adjective
Something that moves in a circle around a central point or axis.
The rotary motion of the earth around the sun.
Often appears as...
- rotary motion
- rotary mechanism
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Technical
noun
A circular intersection of roads where traffic must travel in one direction around a central island to reach any of the roads that the rotary intersects.
We need to take the third exit at the next rotary.
noun
A type of internal combustion engine where the cylinders are arranged in a circle and rotate around a central point.
His motorcycle has a rotary engine.
Often appears as...
- rotary engine design
- rotary engine motorcycle
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Technical
adjective
Relating to or dealing with an organization that people join in order to help their local community, especially the Rotary Club.
There is a rotary charity event next week.
Often appears as...
- rotary club
- rotary charity event
adjective
Something that moves in a circle around a central point or axis.
The rotary motion of the earth around the sun.
Often appears as...
- rotary motion
- rotary mechanism
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A circular intersection of roads where traffic must travel in one direction around a central island to reach any of the roads that the rotary intersects.
We need to take the third exit at the next rotary.
noun
A type of internal combustion engine where the cylinders are arranged in a circle and rotate around a central point.
His motorcycle has a rotary engine.
Often appears as...
- rotary engine design
- rotary engine motorcycle
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Relating to or dealing with an organization that people join in order to help their local community, especially the Rotary Club.
There is a rotary charity event next week.
Often appears as...
- rotary club
- rotary charity event
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Pro Tip 1/2Science Context
Used in physics or mechanics to describe rotational movement.
She explained the rotary movement of a wind turbine's blades.
Pro Tip 2/2Abstract Concepts
Can describe processes that cycle or repeat regularly.
The company's rotary evaluation process ensures consistency.
Pro Tip 1/2Science Context
Used in physics or mechanics to describe rotational movement.
She explained the rotary movement of a wind turbine's blades.
Pro Tip 2/2Abstract Concepts
Can describe processes that cycle or repeat regularly.
The company's rotary evaluation process ensures consistency.
Pro Tip 1/2Science Context
Used in physics or mechanics to describe rotational movement.
She explained the rotary movement of a wind turbine's blades.
Pro Tip 2/2Abstract Concepts
Can describe processes that cycle or repeat regularly.
The company's rotary evaluation process ensures consistency.
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Replying to the Wow...
and then what what is this we're looking at above us right here that is the reg Orion dome some people call it a golf ball that dome as a secondary and tertiary reflector in it that actually takes that energy and focus it to a point so now all we have to do is put in a rotary floor with different receivers to rotate into place to do the different
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John Hockenberry: We are...
and why it was important. Dad talked a lot about bad design when we were growing up, you know, "Bad design is just people not thinking, John," he would say whenever a kid would be injured by a rotary lawn mower or, say, a typewriter ribbon would get tangled or an eggbeater would get jammed in the kitchen.
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Aicha Evans: Your...
I really saw it as something that shaped your experiences, how you understand the world and wanting to be part of it. And for me, the common thread is that physical and virtual transportation -- because that’s really what that rotary phone was for me -- are at the center of the innovation flywheel.
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Cheetah vs Greyhound...
left from right back right back left is that circular rotary gallop we talked about and that she can really see there's two flight phases so when their feet are off the grounds they're either fully extended or tucked up to the body just like a cheetah that was pretty
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How great leaders...
your late majority and your laggards. The only reason these people buy touch-tone phones is because you can't buy rotary phones anymore. We all sit at various places at various times on this scale, but what the law of diffusion of innovation tells us
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Paul Moller: Take a ride...
invented the rotary engine. A very unique engine -- it's round, it's small, it's vibration-free. It fits exactly where we need to fit it, right in the center of the hubs of the ducts in the system -- very critical. In fact that engine --
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How great leaders...
are your early majority your late majority and your laggards the only reason these people by touch-tone phones is because you can't buy rotary phones anymore we all sit at various places at various times on the scale but with the law of
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Adorable Underwater Dogs...
almost like a sprinter and he seems to be doing that rotary gallop so right right left left left in a big sort of circle which is what they do when they're really going very fast on the ground so just the same in the water
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Matthew Carter: My life...
for the U.S. phone books, and it was my first experience of digital type, and quite a baptism. Designed for the phone books, as I said, to be printed at tiny size on newsprint on very high-speed rotary presses
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Our failing schools....
I am never using that, right?" So technology has changed. Things have changed. Yet not in education. Why? Why is it that when we had rotary phones,
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Replying to the Wow...
and then what what is this we're looking at above us right here that is the reg Orion dome some people call it a golf ball that dome as a secondary and tertiary reflector in it that actually takes that energy and focus it to a point so now all we have to do is put in a rotary floor with different receivers to rotate into place to do the different
Video examples
John Hockenberry: We are...
and why it was important. Dad talked a lot about bad design when we were growing up, you know, "Bad design is just people not thinking, John," he would say whenever a kid would be injured by a rotary lawn mower or, say, a typewriter ribbon would get tangled or an eggbeater would get jammed in the kitchen.
Video examples
Aicha Evans: Your...
I really saw it as something that shaped your experiences, how you understand the world and wanting to be part of it. And for me, the common thread is that physical and virtual transportation -- because that’s really what that rotary phone was for me -- are at the center of the innovation flywheel.
Video examples
Cheetah vs Greyhound...
left from right back right back left is that circular rotary gallop we talked about and that she can really see there's two flight phases so when their feet are off the grounds they're either fully extended or tucked up to the body just like a cheetah that was pretty
Video examples
How great leaders...
your late majority and your laggards. The only reason these people buy touch-tone phones is because you can't buy rotary phones anymore. We all sit at various places at various times on this scale, but what the law of diffusion of innovation tells us
Video examples
Paul Moller: Take a ride...
invented the rotary engine. A very unique engine -- it's round, it's small, it's vibration-free. It fits exactly where we need to fit it, right in the center of the hubs of the ducts in the system -- very critical. In fact that engine --
Video examples
How great leaders...
are your early majority your late majority and your laggards the only reason these people by touch-tone phones is because you can't buy rotary phones anymore we all sit at various places at various times on the scale but with the law of
Video examples
Adorable Underwater Dogs...
almost like a sprinter and he seems to be doing that rotary gallop so right right left left left in a big sort of circle which is what they do when they're really going very fast on the ground so just the same in the water
Video examples
Matthew Carter: My life...
for the U.S. phone books, and it was my first experience of digital type, and quite a baptism. Designed for the phone books, as I said, to be printed at tiny size on newsprint on very high-speed rotary presses
Video examples
Our failing schools....
I am never using that, right?" So technology has changed. Things have changed. Yet not in education. Why? Why is it that when we had rotary phones,
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Walter Kirn
American Novelist
A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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Bryson DeChambeau
American Athlete
People would say you need to do stretches and all of that. I would be very careful with doing that. I, if anything, go on a rotary weight machine and try and go as far as you can both ways, rotate as far as you can both ways so that you can create strength through motion.
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Cynthia Ozick
American Novelist
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth.
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Octavio Paz
Mexican Poet
Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
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Ron D. Burton
American Businessman
Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.
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Milind Soman
Indian Model
Every political party, rotary club, every college, school, all organisations organise running events. This is something that ignites the aspirations of people.
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Ajit Pai
American Public Servant
Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.
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Jeff Perry
American Actor
I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.
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Jenny Lewis
American Musician
I'm obsessed with old rotary phones.
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Walter Kirn
American Novelist
A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
Quote examples
Bryson DeChambeau
American Athlete
People would say you need to do stretches and all of that. I would be very careful with doing that. I, if anything, go on a rotary weight machine and try and go as far as you can both ways, rotate as far as you can both ways so that you can create strength through motion.
Quote examples
Cynthia Ozick
American Novelist
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth.
Quote examples
Octavio Paz
Mexican Poet
Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
Quote examples
Ron D. Burton
American Businessman
Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.
Quote examples
Milind Soman
Indian Model
Every political party, rotary club, every college, school, all organisations organise running events. This is something that ignites the aspirations of people.
Quote examples
Ajit Pai
American Public Servant
Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.
Quote examples
Jeff Perry
American Actor
I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.
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Jenny Lewis
American Musician
I'm obsessed with old rotary phones.
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