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obligate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin oblig?tus, past participle of oblig?. Doublet of oblige, taken through French.
Pronunciation
- (US) (verb): enPR: ä?bl?g?t, IPA(key): /??bl??e?t/
- (adjective): enPR: ä?bl?g?t, IPA(key): /??bl???t/
- (UK) (verb): enPR: ôb?l?g?t, IPA(key): /??bl??e?t/
- (adjective): enPR: ôb?l?g?t, IPA(key): /??bl???t/
Verb
obligate (third-person singular simple present obligates, present participle obligating, simple past and past participle obligated)
- (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
- (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
- (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
Usage notes
In non-legal usage, almost exclusively used in the passive, in form “obligated to X” where ‘X’ is a verb infinitive or noun phrase, as in “obligated to pay”. Further, it is now only in standard use in American English and some dialects such as Scottish, having disappeared from standard British English by the 20th century, being replaced by obliged (it was previously used in the 17th through 19th centuries).
Synonyms
- (force, compel): See also: force: Synonyms
Derived terms
- obligation
- obligatory
Translations
Adjective
obligate (comparative more obligate, superlative most obligate)
- (biology) Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role.
- (a plant able to reproduce only from seed.)
- Absolutely indispensable; essential.
Translations
Antonyms
- facultative
- optional
Related terms
References
- obligate at OneLook Dictionary Search
- obligate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /obli??ate/
- Hyphenation: o?bli?ga?te
- Rhymes: -ate
Verb
obligate
- present adverbial passive participle of obligi
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
obligate
- inflection of obligat:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Latin
Participle
oblig?te
- vocative masculine singular of oblig?tus
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tuff
English
Etymology 1
From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin t?fus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?f/
- Homophone: tough
Noun
tuff (countable and uncountable, plural tuffs)
- (petrology) A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
- Synonym: tufa
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 9n:
Derived terms
- tufflava
Translations
Etymology 2
Adjective
tuff (comparative tuffer, superlative tuffest)
- Eye dialect spelling of tough.
Further reading
- tuff on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, tuff
Swedish
Etymology
From English tough.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?f/
Adjective
tuff (comparative tuffare, superlative tuffast)
- (slang) cool
- (slang) tough
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