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Quadrate

 : 
Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Adjective
 : 
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Quadrate has 2 senses

Adjective Quadrate has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Quadratea. [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.].
  •  Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.  [1913 Webster]
    "Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.  Howell.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Squared; suited; correspondent.  Harvey.  [1913 Webster]
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.
Quadraten. [L. quadratum. See Quadrate, a.].
  •  A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.  [1913 Webster]
    "At which command, the powers militant
    That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90Note under Aspect, 6.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The quadrate bone.  [1913 Webster]
Quadratev. i. [See Quadrate, a.].
     To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.  [1913 Webster]
    "The objections of these speculatists of its forms do not quadrate with their theories."  [1913 Webster]
Quadratev. t. 
     To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Quadrate, adj., n., & v.
--adj. esp. Anat. & Zool. square or rectangular (quadrate bone; quadrate muscle).
--n.
1 a quadrate bone or muscle.
2 a rectangular object.
--v.
1 tr. make square.
2 intr. & tr. (often foll. by with) conform or make conform.

Etymology
ME f. L quadrare quadrat- make square f. quattuor four

THESAURUS

Quadrate

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

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Quadrate

Four

N quaternity, four, tetrad, quartet, quaternion, square, quarter, tetract, tetragon, quadrangle, rectangle, tetrahedron, quadrature, quadrifoil, quadriform, quadruplet, quatrefoil, tetrapod, quadrangle, quad, quadrupole, quadrivium, four, quaternary, quaternal, quadratic, quartile, tetract, tetractic, tetractinal, tetrad, tetragonal, square, quadrate.

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