conjugate
English
Etymology
From the participle stem of Latin conjugāre (“to yoke together”), from con- + jugāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
conjugate (third-person singular simple present conjugates, present participle conjugating, simple past and past participle conjugated)
- (grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.
- In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are' (or 'thou art'), 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.
- (rare) To join together, unite; to juxtapose.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 55:
- The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 55:
- (biology) To reproduce sexually as do some bacteria and algae, by exchanging or transferring DNA.
Hypernyms
Related terms
- conjugable
- conjugatable
- conjugation
- conjugator
See also
Translations
to inflect (a verb) for each person
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Noun
conjugate (plural conjugates)
- Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
- (mathematics) (of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
- (mathematics) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
- (mathematics) An explementary angle.
- (grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
- Archbishop Bramhall
- We have learned, in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.
- Archbishop Bramhall
Translations
entity formed by joining smaller ones
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math: complex conjugate — see complex conjugate
math: any of a set of zeros of a polynomial
math: explementary angle
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