Meaning

4 senses

  1. (archaic, transitive)To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.

  2. (archaic, transitive)To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.

  3. (ambitransitive, archaic)To square.

    quadrating the circle

  4. (archaic, transitive)To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).

    not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason

Origin

From Latin quadrātus, past participle of quadrō.

From Latin quadrātus, past participle of quadrō.

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Forms

quadrates, quadrating, quadrated, quadrated
Base formquadrate · to quadrate
3rd person singularquadrates
Present participlequadrating
Past simplequadrated
Past participlequadrated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyquadrate
he, she, itquadrates

Past simpleLesson

all personsquadrated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave quadrated
he, she, ithas quadrated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill quadrate

Word family

1 related words
Derivedbiquadrate

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
quadquadrantquadraticquadricepsquadrilateral
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