different between carriage vs quadrate

English

Etymology

From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ??d?/, /?k???d?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ??d?/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -æ??d?
• Hyphenation: car?riage

Noun

carriage (countable and uncountable, plural carriages)

1. The act of conveying; carrying.
2. Means of conveyance.
3. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

   The carriage ride was very romantic.

4. (Britain) A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
5. (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Characters," [1]

     In spite of her erect carriage she could flop to her knees to pray as smart as any of us.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 90:

     He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
6. (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:

     He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that […] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

     Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
7. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
8. (US, New England) A shopping cart.
9. (Britain) A stroller; a baby carriage.
10. The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).

    Synonyms: freight, freightage, cartage, charge, rate

11. (archaic) That which is carried, baggage

    • And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.

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Translations

See also

• carriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix:Carriages

English

Alternative forms

• quadrat (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English quadrat, from Old French quadrat (“a square”), from Latin quadr?tus (“square”), past participle of quadr? (“to make four-cornered, square, put in order, intransitive be square”), from quadra (“a square”), later quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).

Pronunciation

• (adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /?kw?d??t/, /?kw?d?e?t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /kw?d??e?t/
  • Rhymes: -e?t

Adjective

quadrate (comparative more quadrate, superlative most quadrate)

1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
   • 1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments

     Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate.

2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
   • 1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, book 4, ch. 12:

     The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers.

3. (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
   • 1644, James Howell, letter to Sir Ed. Sa. Knight

     a quadrat, solid, wise man

4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
   • 1672 Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions

     a generical description quadrate to both

Related terms

• quadratic
• quadration
• quadrature

Noun

quadrate (plural quadrates)

1. (geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI:

     At which command, the powers militant

     That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.

2. (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
3. (anatomy) The quadrate bone.

Verb

quadrate (third-person singular simple present quadrates, present participle quadrating, simple past and past participle quadrated)

1. (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
2. (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
3. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To square.

   quadrating the circle

4. (archaic, transitive) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).

   not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason

   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     The objections of these speculatists, if its forces do not quadrate with their theories, are as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against the most violent tyranny or the greenest usurpation.

   • In short I am resolved, from this instance, never to give way to the weakness of human nature more, nor to think anything virtue which doth not exactly quadrate with the unerring rule of right.

Further reading

• quadrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• quadrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• quadrate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• arquated

Italian

Adjective

quadrate

1. feminine plural of quadrato

Latin

Etymology

From quadr? (“make square”), from quadrus (“square, four-sided”), from quattuor (“four”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?a?dra?.te?/, [k?ä?d??ä?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa?dra.te/, [kw??d????t??]

Adverb

quadr?t? (not comparable)

1. fourfold, four times

Related terms

References

• quadrate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quadrate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette