oblate
pronunciation
How to pronounce oblate in British English:
UK ['ɒbleɪt]
How to pronounce oblate in American English:
US ['ɒbleɪt]
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- Noun:
- a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
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- Adjective:
- having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles
Word Origin
- oblate (adj.)
- "flattened on the ends," 1705, from Medieval Latin oblatus "flattened," from Latin ob "toward" (see ob-) + latus, abstracted from its opposite, prolatus "lengthened" (see oblate (n.)).
- oblate (n.)
- "person devoted to religious work," 1756, from Medieval Latin oblatus, noun use of Latin oblatus, variant past participle of offerre "to offer, to bring before," from ob- (see ob-) + latus "carried, borne" (used as suppletive past participle of ferre "to bear"), from *tlatos, from PIE root *tele- "to bear, carry" (see extol).
Example
- 1. Cross recessed oblate head tapping screws with common screw-thread .
- 2. Planet earth is an oblate solid .
- 3. A toom purse makes an oblate merchant .
- 4. Capsule oblate or conical-globose , wider than long .
- 5. Cross recessed oblate head tapping screws .