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rotary

adjective as in turning

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Inquiries will be accepted only via Western Union telegram or rotary phone.

Bob Bashara was a married Rotary Club president who lived in a ritzy Detroit suburb.

There's an old rotary phone and a few yellowed papers on a cluttered old wooden desk.

“I think for sure he will,” said Kit Jennings, treasurer of the Spartanburg Rotary Club, which Perry addressed Tuesday.

The thwap-thwap-thwap of rotary wings above triggered an intense reaction in Army trauma surgeon Dr. (Maj.) Tara Dixon.

The rotary tuner shown in the sketch was designed by a correspondent of Modern Electrics.

The Gnome rotary engine was first used with success at this meeting.

The first steam engine invented by Hero was a rotary engine, but it was of course, most uneconomical of steam.

They not unfrequently acquire a rotary movement, whereby the circumference attains a velocity of several miles per hour.

It is by this means that the reciprocating movement of the piston is transformed into a rotary motion of the crank-shaft.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rotary, such as: spinning, whirligig, whirling, encircling, gyral, and gyratory.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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