different between quadrate vs quadrat

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

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin quadr?tum.

Noun

quadrat (plural quadrats)

1. (sciences) An area of land, marked for studying its plants, animals, soil, natural processes, etc.

Derived terms

• photoquadrat
• subquadrat

Etymology 2

1683. Probably from French cadrat or Italian quadrato (“square”), originally from Latin quadr?tum (“square”). So called because the basic quadrat, the em quadrat, has a square face, having the same width as the height of a line of type.

Noun

quadrat (plural quadrats)

1. (letterpress typography, obsolete) A quad; a blank metal block used to fill space in lines of type.
   • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., v 2, p 222–23:

     If his Title be ?hort, he Sets it in the middle of the Line, by Setting Quadrats on both ?ides: If his Title be long, he Sets the middle Line in the middle: If it make three or more Lines, he Indents the fir?t with an m Quadrat, and the other with two m Quadrats.

2. (Egyptology) A virtual rectangular subdivision of a line or column of hieroglyphs within which a group of hieroglyphs is arranged.

Synonyms

• quad
• space

Derived terms

• quad

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quadr?tus, possibly a borrowing. Cf. caire, quadre.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kw??d?at/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kwa?d?at/

Noun

quadrat m (plural quadrats)

1. square

Adjective

quadrat (feminine quadrada, masculine plural quadrats, feminine plural quadrades)

1. square
2. squared

Related terms

• quadrar
• quadre
• caire
• cairar

Further reading

• “quadrat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “quadrat” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “quadrat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “quadrat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Verb

quadrat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of quadr?

Tatar

Noun

quadrat

1. quadrat

Adjective

quadrat

1. quadratic, square