Quadrate
Quadrate , adjective
[Latin quadratus squared, past participle of quadrare to make four-cornered, to make square, to square, to fit, suit, from quadrus square, quattuor four. See Quadrant, and compare Quadrat, Quarry an arrow, Square.]
1.
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate.
2.
Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
Quadrate and cubical numbers.
3.
Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. [Archaic]
A quadrate, solid, wise man.
4.
Squared; suited; correspondent. [Archaic]
A generical description quadrate to both.
Collocations (1)
Quadrate bone (Anatomy) , 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.
Quadrate , noun
[Latin quadratum. See Quadrate, a.]
1.
(Geometry) 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 heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.
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3.
(Anatomy) The quadrate bone.
Quadrate , intransitive verb
[See Quadrate, a.]
To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with. [Archaic]
The objections of these speculatists of its forms do not quadrate with their theories.
Quadrate , transitive verb
To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.