different between concatenate vs catenative

English

Etymology

From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concat?n?re (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + cat?n? (“chain, bind”), from cat?na (“a chain”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?kæt.?.ne?t/

Verb

concatenate (third-person singular simple present concatenates, present participle concatenating, simple past and past participle concatenated)

1. To join or link together, as though in a chain.
   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, (Penguin 2004), page 182)

     Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion, the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality.

2. (transitive, computing) To join (text strings) together.

Derived terms

• concatenation
• concatenative
• deconcatenate

Related terms

• catenate

Translations

Adjective

concatenate (not comparable)

1. (biology) Joined together as if in a chain.
   • 1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl (page 166)

     The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.

Italian

Verb

concatenate

1. second-person plural present indicative of concatenare
2. second-person plural imperative of concatenare
3. feminine plural of concatenato

Latin

Verb

concat?n?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of concat?n?

English

Etymology

From Latin cat?n?tus (“chained”), from cat?n?re, from cat?na (“chain”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kætn??.t?v/, /?kæt.?.ne?.t?v/

Adjective

catenative (not comparable)

1. Having the ability to catenate, or form chains.
   • 1980, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa, The Mathematical Theory of L Systems, page 20,

     In this section we shall investigate some of the basic properties of D0L systems that generate locally catenative sequences. These locally catenative D0L systems form one of the mathematically most natural subclasses of the class of D0L systems.

   • 2004, Stephan Gramley, Kurt-Michael Pätzold, A Survey of Modern English, 2nd Edition, page 135,

     Nonfinite complements which refer to a time before that of the main or catenative predicator are exclusively expressed by {-ing} forms (e.g. I remember doing it; She admits going; They deny being there).

Derived terms

• catenative verb

Related terms

• catenation
• concatenate
• concatenative

Translations

Noun

catenative (plural catenatives)

1. (linguistics) A catenative verb.
   • 2010, Stanley E. Porter, Jeffrey T. Reed, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Fundamentals of New Testament Greek, page 351,

     Unlike periphrastics, however, catenatives combine certain verbs (e.g., impersonal ???) with an infinitive.

   • 2014, Paula Menyuk, Jacqueline W. Liebergott, Martin C. Schultz, Early Language Development in Full-term and Premature Infants, page 225,

     Sentences containing catenatives (e.g., gonna, wanna, haveta, etc.) have one proposition, coded by the main verb following these.

See also

• Appendix:English catenative verbs