Prolate

Definition: Prolate

Prolate

Adjective

1. Having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter; "a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis".

2. Rounded like an egg.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Prolate" is a common misspelling or typo for: prelate, probate, prorate.

Synonyms: Prolate

Rotundity

Sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution).

Voice

Verb: utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry; (shout); ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear.

Crosswords: Prolate

Expressions using "prolate": prolate cycloid ♦ prolate ellipsoid ♦ prolate spheroid. Additional references.

Albanian

vezak (egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oviform, ovoid), elipsoidal. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هبوط الأعضاء, ‏إسترخاء (relaxation, repose). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удължен при полюсите, широко разпространен (pervasive, prevalent, rife, universal, widespread). (various references)

German

länglich (elongated, long, longish, oblong), abgeplattet (oblate). (various references)

Greek 

ωοειδήσ (oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, ovoidal). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוארך (extended, oblong, protracted). (various references)

Hungarian

nyújtott (drawling, drawn), megnyúlt (drawn, elongate, elongated, strung out), lapos (depressed, earthbound, earth-bound, even, featureless, flat, lasagne, plain, stale, tabulate, trite, vapid), kiszélesedõ, kinyújtott (extended, outstretched), hosszúkás (lengthwise, longish, oblong), elnyújtott (drawling, long-drawn). (various references)

Manx

prolaitagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

olatepray

Portuguese

largamente espalhado, amplamente difundido. (various references)

Russian 

широко распространенный (prevailing, widespread, wide-spread), вытянутый (drawn out, extended, oblong, splay, stretched). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izdužen (drawn, long, oval). (various references)

Swedish

utdragen vid polerna, utbredd (ample, disseminated, expansive, extensive, outspread, rife, splay, spread, widely-spread, widespread). (various references)

Turkish

yayvan (splay, splayed), yayık (butter churn, churn, tub). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lan khắp (prevailing). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: palter, parole, patrol, pelota, petrol, plater, portal, protea, replot.

-2 letters: alert, alter, aport, apter, artel, later, leapt, lepta, loper, oater, opera, orate, paler, palet, pareo, parle, parol, pater, pearl, peart, petal, plate, pleat, polar, poler, prate, prole, ratel, repot, taler, taper, tepal, tolar, toper, trope.

-3 letters: aero, aloe, alto, aper, atop, earl, late.

+1 letter: lakeport, pectoral, petiolar, petrosal, plethora, polestar, portable, portaled, preallot, temporal.

+2 letters: acropetal, allotrope, atemporal, doorplate, lakeports, operantly, overleapt, overplant, pastorale, patrolled, patroller, patrolmen, pectorals, peculator, percolate, plethoras, polestars, polywater, portables, preallots, precoital, saprolite, sporulate, temporals.

+3 letters: allotropes, blastopore, coleoptera, colportage, depilatory, deportable, doorplates, epistolary, explicator, exportable, extemporal, grapholect, graptolite, heptachlor, importable, operculate, outsparkle, overplants, pastorales, patrollers, peculators, percolated, percolates, percolator, perfoliate, periosteal, peritoneal, personalty, petrolatum, polarities, polywaters, portabella, portabello, praetorial, pratincole, prefrontal, profitable, profligate, promotable, promulgate, propellant, protonemal, pyrolysate, pyrolyzate, replicator, repopulate, reportable, saprolites, speculator, sporulated, sporulates, temporally, tetraploid, trampoline, treponemal.