| -ate | 1. <suffix> As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated. 2. As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to). 3. As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate. 4. <chemistry> It is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts. Origin: From the L. Suffix -atus, the past participle ending of verbs of the 1st conj. (29 Oct 1998) |
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| radi-ate-veined | <botany> Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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