different between captivate vs gravitate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capt?v?; synchronically analyzable as captive +? -ate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæpt?ve?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæpt??ve?t/
• Hyphenation: cap?tiv?ate

Verb

captivate (third-person singular simple present captivates, present participle captivating, simple past and past participle captivated)

1. To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
2. (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

     'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.

Related terms

• captivation

Translations

Anagrams

• captative

Latin

Verb

capt?v?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of capt?v?

English

Etymology

Back-formation from gravitation. Or borrowed from New Latin gravito, gravitatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???æv?teit/
• Hyphenation: grav?i?tate

Verb

gravitate (third-person singular simple present gravitates, present participle gravitating, simple past and past participle gravitated)

1. (intransitive, astrophysics) To move under the force of gravity.
   • 1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, Creation; a philosophical poem in seven books, book II:

     The?e, who have nature's ?teps with care pur?ued,
     That matter is with ac?tive force endued,
     That all its parts magnetic power exert,
     And to each other gravitate, a??ert.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.

   Children naturally gravitate to such a big, friendly man.

   • 1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations:

     The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

   • 1923, Elbert Hubbard, "J.B. Runs Things":

     Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Translations

References

• gravitate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• gravitate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

gravitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of gravitare
2. second-person plural imperative of gravitare
3. feminine plural of gravitato

Anagrams

• rigettava

Latin

Noun

gravit?te

1. ablative singular of gravit?s

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gravité, Latin gravitas, gravitatem; equivalent to grav +? -itate. Compare greutate, possibly an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ra.vi?ta.te]

Noun

gravitate f (uncountable)

1. gravity, seriousness, graveness

Declension

Related terms

• grav
• gravita?ie