Library / English Dictionary

OBLATE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("oblate" is a kind of...):

religious person (a person who manifests devotion to a deity)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles

Synonyms:

oblate; pumpkin-shaped

Classified under:

Adjectives

Also:

rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)

Antonym:

prolate (having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter)

Derivation:

oblateness (the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb oblate

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