quadrate

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: quad=rate

CIDE DICTIONARY

quadrate, a. [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.

quadrate, n. [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]

quadrate, v. 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]

quadrate, v. 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

ROGET THESAURUS

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.