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LIGATE

Definition: LIGATE

LIGATE

Transitive verb

1. To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"LIGATE" is a common misspelling or typo for: legate, legatee, legato, liquate.


Modern Translations: LIGATE

Language Translations for "LIGATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

lidh (articulate, associate, bend, bind, buckle, bundle, colligate, concatenate, connect, couple, do up, dress, enfetter, fasten, glue, hitch, hook up, interconnect, join, joint, lace, link, moor, regard, relate, respect, solder, splice, string, switch on, tie, tie down, truss, unite). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

绑扎. (various references)

   

Danish

  

ligering (deligation, ligation), underbinding (deligation, ligation), anlæggelse af tourniquet, afsnøring (arrest of blood circulation, blood arrest, constriction, Esmarch tourniquet, ligature, tourniquet). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

afbinden (ligature, tie, tie up, untie). (various references)

   

French

  

pose d'un garrot, garrotter. (various references)

   

German

  

Abbinden (binding, cable binding, setting up, strangulate, undo, untie). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απολινώ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

legare (alloy, bind, connect, get on well, go well, hitch, join, lash, link, tether, tie, tie up, unite, wire). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

igatelay

   

Portuguese

  

garrotar, garrotagem. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ligadura (bond, constraint, constriction, deligation, glide, lashing, ligament, ligation, ligature, link, tie). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ผูก (band, bind down, bind off, bound, fasten, ligature). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: LIGATE

Derivations

Words beginning with "LIGATE": ligated, ligates. (additional references)

Words ending with "LIGATE": colligate, obligate, profligate. (additional references)

Words containing "LIGATE": colligated, colligates, obligated, obligately, obligates, profligately, profligates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LIGATE"

Words rhyming with "LIGATE" (pronounced 'Li"gate'): Dogate, Evulgate, Fungate, Ingate, Langate, Objurgate, Outgate, Plagate, Prolongate, Rugate, Strigate, Subelongate, tollgate, Waygate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LIGATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aiglet, gelati.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-t"

-1 letter: agile, aglet, legit, telia.

-2 letters: alit, egal, gait, gale, gate, gelt, geta, gilt, glia, ilea, late, lati, lite, tael, tail, tale, tali, teal, tela, tile.

-3 letters: age, ail, ait, ale, alt, ate, eat, eta, gae, gal, gat, gel, get, gie, git, lag, lat, lea, leg, lei, let, lie, lit, tae, tag, tea, teg.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-t"
 

+1 letter: aiglets, atingle, egalite, elating, gelatin, genital, glaiket, ligated, ligates, taglike, tillage.

 

+2 letters: agential, agitable, aglitter, alerting, alginate, alighted, altering, atheling, bleating, cleating, delating, egalites, exalting, galenite, gantline, gatelike, gelatine, gelating, gelatins, gelation, genitals, gestical, gilthead, glaciate, gladiate, gladiest, glariest, glaziest, gnatlike, goatlike, integral, latening, latigoes, legalist, legality, legatine, legating, legation, levigate, liftgate, ligament, ligative, ligature, ligulate, litharge, litigate, megalith, metaling, multiage, obligate, otalgies, pilotage, pleating, regality, relating, stealing, tailgate, tangible, tanglier, teazling, tegminal, teiglach, thirlage, tillages, triangle, valeting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LIGATE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 49 47 41 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    ..    --.    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01001001 01000111 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#73 &#71 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0049 0047 0041 0054 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

464341355439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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