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Adjective, Noun

TANDA HUBUNG

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun has 1 sense

oblate(n = noun.person) - a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life;

Adjective has 1 sense

oblate(a = adj.all) pumpkin-shaped - having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles;

Antonym: prolate

Derived form noun oblateness₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

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Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid. [1913 Webster]
Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n. [1913 Webster]

Oblate ellipsoid or Oblate spheroid (Geom.), a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis; an oblatum. Contrasted with prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.

, n. Array

One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

, n. a person dedicated to a monastic or religious life or work.

, adj. Geom. (of a spheroid) flattened at the poles (cf. PROLATE).

Etymology

mod.L oblatus (as OBLATE(1))

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ROGET THESAURUS

Shortness

N shortness, brevity, littleness, a span, shortening, abbreviation, abbreviature, abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation, reduction, epitome, elision, ellipsis, conciseness, abridger, epitomist, epitomizer, short, brief, curt, compendious, compact, stubby, scrimp, shorn, stubbed, stumpy, thickset, pug, chunky, decurtate, retrousse, stocky, squab, squabby, squat, dumpy, little, curtailed of its fair proportions, short by, oblate, concise, summary, shortly, in short.