different between oblate vs equant

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??ble?t/ (or IPA^(key): /??ble?t/ for adjective)
• (US) IPA^(key): /??ble?t/

Etymology 1

From French oblat and its source, post-classical Latin obl?tus (“person dedicated to religious life”), a nominal use of the past participle of offer? (“I offer”).

Noun

oblate (plural oblates)

1. (Roman Catholicism) A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
2. A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
   • 2007, The Venerable Bede started as an oblate at St Paul's, Jarrow, but by the time of his death in 735 was surely the most learned man in Europe. — Tom Shippey, ‘I Lerne Song’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 19

Related terms

• oblation
• offer
• offering

Etymology 2

From Late Latin obl?tus, from Latin ob (“in front of, before”) + l?tus (“broad, wide”), (modeled after pr?l?tus (“extended, lengthened”)).

Adjective

oblate (comparative more oblate, superlative most oblate)

1. Flattened or depressed at the poles.

   The Earth is an oblate spheroid.

   • 1922, Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this oblate orange? — James Joyce, Ulysses
   • 1997, ‘ ’Tis prolate, still,’ with a long dejected Geordie O. ‘Isn’t it…?’ ‘I’m an Astronomer,– trust me, ’tis gone well to oblate.’ — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

Translations

Antonyms

• prolate

Related terms

• oblatum

See also

• equidimensional

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

oblate (third-person singular simple present oblates, present participle oblating, simple past and past participle oblated)

1. To offer as either a gift or an oblation.

Anagrams

• boatel, lobate

Italian

Adjective

oblate

1. feminine plural of oblato

Anagrams

• balteo, belato

Latin

Participle

obl?te

1. vocative masculine singular of obl?tus

English

Noun

equant (plural equants)

1. (obsolete, astronomy) The center of a planetary epicycle.

Adjective

equant (comparative more equant, superlative most equant)

1. Having comparable measurements in all directions; equidimensional.

Synonyms

• equidimensional

See also

• oblate
• prolate

Anagrams

• aquent