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CATENATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they catenate ... he / she / it catenates
Past simple: catenated
Past participle: catenated
-ing form: catenating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores
Synonyms:
catenate; catenulate
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "catenate" is one way to...):
arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
catena (a chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma))
chain (a series of things depending on each other as if linked together)
chain ((chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule))
