quadrate
IPA: kwɑdreɪt
noun
- (geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
- (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
- (anatomy) The quadrate bone.
verb
- (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
- (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
- (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To square.
- (archaic, transitive) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
adjective
- Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
- Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
- (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
- (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
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Examples of "quadrate" in Sentences
- Her garden is quadrate.
- Who made this shape quadrate
- She owns everything quadrate.
- She precisely made it quadrate.
- The man owns quadrate cellphone.
- How did you make it so quadrate
- She likes how her room is quadrate.
- I am not surprised that the laptop is quadrate.
- She measured inches accurately to make quadrate.
- The medial segment is also called the quadrate lobe.
- Video musicale colorato e variegato, con auto dalle ruote quadrate, diggei e rapimenti alieni.
- The earliest therapsids show the typical reptilian type of jaw joint, with the articular bone in the jaw firmly attached to the quadrate bone in the skull.
- Hornbills are also unusual in possessing a unique ligament – the quadratomandibular ligament – that connects the body of the quadrate with the inside surface of the lower jaw.
- So malleus and the incus, or the hammer and the anvil, are actually the quadrate and the articular that used to be in the jaw joint, and now they are hooked up to the stapes here of the ear.
- I, here are metaphysics surely; but they are all on your side, who advance an abstruse hypothesis, which can never be made intelligible, nor quadrate with any particular instance or illustration.
- He thought he could show that the skeletal structures (lower jaw, "quadrate," and hyoid) of the first two arches were formed in the serous layer, just like true ribs, and like them in close connection with the vertebral skeletal axis.
- Further, no man can judge another, because no man knows himself; for we censure others but as they disagree from that humour which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.
- The cartilaginous bar from the palato-pterygoid to the otic capsule is called the quadrate, and at the point of junction, at the postero-ventral angle of the palato-pterygoid, articulates with the cartilaginous bar which is destined to form the substratum of the lower jaw -- Meckel's cartilage (M.c. in Figure 8, I.).
- Its upper border blends with the anterior and posterior ligaments of the elbow, while from its lower border a thin loose membrane passes to be attached to the neck of the radius; a thickened band which extends from the inferior border of the annular ligament below the radial notch to the neck of the radius is known as the quadrate ligament.