Sekirov Dictionary

quadrate

UK /ˈkwɒd.ɹət/US /ˈkwɑd.ɹət/

adjective 4
noun 3
/kwɑdˈɹeɪt/ verb 4
forms 5

adjective4

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Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
- […]figures some rounde, some triangle, some quadrate,[…] — 1563
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Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
- The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers. — 1646
•
(no longer used) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
- The Moralist tells us that a quadrat solid wise man, should[…]be still the same,[…] — 2026
(no longer used) Squared; suited; correspondent.

noun3

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A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
- At which command, the powers militant That stood for heav'n, in mighty quadrate joyn'd. — 1667
The quadrate bone.
An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.

quadrate

UK /kwɒdˈɹeɪt/US /kwɑdˈɹeɪt/

verb4

(no longer used) To square.
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(no longer used) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
- 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. — 1749
(no longer used) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
(no longer used) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.

forms

quadrated · quadrating · quadrates · more quadrate · most quadrate

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