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Italian

Adjective

quadrate

Feminine plural form of quadrato

Category:Italian adjective forms

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Quadrate \Quad"rate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quadrated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Quadrating.] [See Quadrate, a.]
To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by
with. [Archaic]
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The objections of these speculatists of its forms do
not quadrate with their theories. --Burke.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Quadrate \Quad"rate\, a. [L. quadratus squared, p. p. of
quadrare to make four-cornered, to make square, to square, to
fit, suit, from quadrus square, quattuor four. See
Quadrant, and cf. Quadrat, Quarry an arrow, Square.]
1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and
four right angles; square.
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Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate.
--Foxe.
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2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. "
Quadrate and cubical numbers." --Sir T. Browne.
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3. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. [Archaic] " A
quadrate, solid, wise man." --Howell.
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4. Squared; suited; correspondent. [Archaic] " A generical
description quadrate to both." --Harvey.
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Quadrate bone (Anat.), a bone between the base of the lower
jaw and the skull in most vertebrates below the mammals.
In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with
the skull; in mammals it is represented by the malleus or
incus.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Quadrate \Quad"rate\, n. [L. quadratum. See Quadrate, a.]
1. (Geom.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four
right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything
having the outline of a square.
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At which command, the powers militant
That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.
--Milton.
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2. (Astrol.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they
are distant from each other 90[deg], or the quarter of a
circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.
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3. (Anat.) The quadrate bone.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Quadrate \Quad"rate\, v. t.
To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for
horizontal firing.
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WordNet quadrate
adj : having four sides and four angles
n 1: a cubelike object
2: a square-shaped object

Moby Dictionary
accommodate , accord , adjust , check , comport , conform , correspond ,
cube , cube-shaped , cubed , cubic , cubiform , cuboid , dice , diced ,
dovetail , fit , fit in , form fours , foursquare , go , harmonize ,
make four , oblong , orthogonal , quadrangular , quadratic , quadriform ,
quadrilateral , reconcile , rectangular , rhombic , rhomboid , square ,
suit , tailor , tetragonal , tetrahedral , trapezohedral , trapezoid