quadrate
English
Alternative forms
- quadrat (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English quadrat, from Old French quadrat (“a square”), from Latin quadrātus (“square”), past participle of quadrō (“to make four-cornered, square, put in order, intransitive be square”), from quadra (“a square”), later quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).
Pronunciation
- (adjective, noun)
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒd.ɹət/, /ˈkwɒdˌɹeɪt/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkwɑd.ɹət/, /ˈkwɑdˌɹeɪt/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒd.ɹət/, /ˈkwɒdˌɹeɪt/
- (verb)
- (UK) IPA(key): /kwɒdˈɹeɪt/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /kwɑdˈɹeɪt/
- Rhymes: -eɪt
- (UK) IPA(key): /kwɒdˈɹeɪt/
Adjective
quadrate (comparative more quadrate, superlative most quadrate)
- Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
- 1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments
- Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate.
- 1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments
- Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
- 1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, book 4, ch. 12:
- The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers.
- 1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, book 4, ch. 12:
- (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
- 1644, James Howell, letter to Sir Ed. Sa. Knight
- a quadrat, solid, wise man
- 1644, James Howell, letter to Sir Ed. Sa. Knight
- (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
- 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
- a generical description quadrate to both
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Related terms
- quadratic
- quadration
- quadrature
Noun
quadrate (plural quadrates)
- (geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- At which command, the powers militant
That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.
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- (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
- (anatomy) The quadrate bone.
Verb
quadrate (third-person singular simple present quadrates, present participle quadrating, simple past and past participle quadrated)
- (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
- (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
- (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To square.
- quadrating the circle
- (archaic, transitive) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
- not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason
- 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], OCLC 946162345:
- The objections of these speculatists, if its forces do not quadrate with their theories, are as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against the most violent tyranny or the greenest usurpation.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
- In short I am resolved, from this instance, never to give way to the weakness of human nature more, nor to think anything virtue which doth not exactly quadrate with the unerring rule of right.
Further reading
- quadrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- quadrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- quadrate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for quadrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- arquated
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwaˈdra.te/
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: qua‧drà‧te
Adjective
quadrate
- feminine plural of quadrato
Latin
Etymology
From quadrō (“make square”), from quadrus (“square, four-sided”), from quattuor (“four”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷaˈdraː.teː/, [kʷäˈd̪räːt̪eː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwaˈdra.te/, [kwäˈd̪räːt̪e]
Adverb
quadrātē (not comparable)
- fourfold, four times
Related terms
- quadrātārius
- quadrātiō
- quadrātor
- quadrātus
- quadrō
- quadrus
References
- “quadrate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quadrate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette