Obligate

Definitions: Obligate

Obligate

Adjective

1. (biology) restricted to a particular condition of life; "an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of OXYGen".

2. Being under moral or legal obligation; "felt bound by his promise".

Verb

1. Force or compel somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form".

Date "obligate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Obligate \Ob"li*gate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Obligated; present participle verb or noun Obligating.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Science	Restricted to a particular host, substratum or mode of nutrition. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Obligate

Synonyms: bound (adj), compelled(p) (adj), constrained(p) (adj), compel (v), oblige (v). (additional references)

Antonym: facultative (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Life	Microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile, methanogen, archaebacteria, microaerophile.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Obligate

English words defined with "obligate": obligate anaerobe, Obligating. (references)

Specialty definitions using "obligate": Anaplasma ♦ Dichelobacter nodosus ♦ Eperythrozoon ♦ Halobacteriaceae ♦ Methylosinus ♦ obligate parasite, Obligation ♦ rickettsiae ♦ Triatominae. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Studien zu Franz Schuberts Orchestersatz : das obligate Accompagnement in den Sinfonien (reference) The Agent of Trachoma: Recent Studies of the Biology Biochemsitry and Immunology of a Prokaryotic Obligate Parasite of Eukaryocytes (Monographs in vi (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease that is transmitted by sandflies and caused by obligate intracellular protozoa of the genus Leishmania. (references)
		The term microsporidia is also used as a general nomenclature for the obligate intracellular protozoan parasites belonging to the phylum Microsporidia. (references)
Economic History	Netherlands	Included in the articles of incorporation must be information on any special agreements that will obligate the company being set up. Such expressed or tacit agreements may relate to acquisition of shares on a preferential basis or assuring the founder of a profit or payment. (references)
	Cameroon	The president is empowered to name and dismiss cabinet members, judges, generals, provincial governors, prefects, sub-prefects, and heads of Cameroon's parastatal (about 100 state-controlled) firms, obligate or disburse expenditures, approve or veto regulations, declare states of emergency, and appropriate and spend profits of parastatal firms. (references)
Worker Rights	Guatemala	The report alleged that maquilas often obligate women to reveal whether they are pregnant as a condition of employment, either through questions on job applications, in interviews, or through physical examinations. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Obligate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Obligate" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.86%	13	97,576
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	7.14%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	14	N/A

Expressions using "obligate": obligate aerobe ♦ obligate anaerobe ♦ obligate anaerobes ♦ obligate intracellular parasite ♦ obligate parasite. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "obligate": non-obligate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "obligate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i domosdoshëm (imperatival, imperative, indispensable, necessary, needful, prerequisite), i detyrueshëm (enforceable, inalienable, indispensable, mandatory, necessary, oblatory, obligatory, obliging), detyroj (bind, bully, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, enforce, entail, force, have, haze, impel, keep, make, move, oblige, outface, pin down, press, push, rack, screw, strong arm, tie). (various references)

Arabic		‏إلتزم بعمل شئ, ‏إضطر (be coerced, be compelled, be constrained, be forced, be obliged, coerce, compel, force, have, have to, impel, oblige), ‏ألزم (oblige, prescribe). (various references)

Bulgarian		задължавам (bind, call on, charge, engage, oblige, require). (various references)

Chinese		强制 (Coerce, Coerced, Coercing, Coercive, Obligated, Obligating, Obligatory). (various references)

Czech		zavázat k èemu, uložit za povinnost (oblige). (various references)

Danish		obligat parasit (obligate parasite), obligat anerobe organismer (obligate anaerobes), obligat aerobe organismer 1] (obligate aerobes), tvangssnylter (obligate parasite). (various references)

Dutch		obligate parasiet (obligate parasite), obligaat anaerobe organismen (obligate anaerobes), obligaat aerobe organismen (obligate aerobes). (various references)

Farsi		متعهدوملتزم کردن , ضامن سپردن , ضروری (Immediate, Imperative, Indispensable, Must, Necessary, Needful, Urgent), درمحظورقراردادن . (various references)

Finnish		obligatorinen aerobinen organismi (obligate aerobes), obligaattinen loinen (obligate parasite), obligaatti anaerobinen organismi (obligate anaerobes), pakollinen aerobinen organismi (obligate aerobes). (various references)

French		obliger (oblige), se sentir obligé, contraindre (oblige), être tenu de faire de faire qch, être dans l'obligation de faire. (various references)

German		verpflichten (be binding, bind, book, carry an obligation, commit, engage, enlist, line up, oblige, place under an obligation, secure, sign on, sign up, to engage, to obligate, to oblige). (various references)

Greek		υποχρεώνω (bind, compel, oblige), αναγκάζω (bludgeon, coerce, compel, constrain, impel, necessitate). (various references)

Hebrew		לחיב (bind, charge an account, commit, compel, debit, enjoin, necessitate, oblige), להכריח (compel, constrain, dragoon, force, oblige). (various references)

Hungarian		szükségszerû (absolute, imperative, ineluctable, inevitable, necessary, needful), leköt (absorb, held, immobilize, to arrest, to engage, to engross, to hold, to obligate, to peg down, to pledge, to take up, to tie, to tie up), kötelez (bind, oblige, to bind over, to engage, to obligate, to oblige), kényszerû (forced). (various references)

Italian		obbligare (bind, command, compel, constrain, engage, force, necessitate, oblige, require, to force). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		義務づける (to obligate), 義務付ける (to obligate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぎむづける (to obligate). (various references)

Korean		의무를 지우십시요. (various references)

Pig Latin		obligateay

Portuguese		obrigar (compel, constrain, determine, enforce, force, have, impose, oblige, obliging, put), sacrificial (sacrificial), forçar (bayonet, coerce, compel, enforce, force, hustler, impress, oblige, overbear, press, push, put under the screw, send, stretch, tax). (various references)

Romanian		obliga (bind, coerce, compel, constrain, determine, dictate, enforce, engage, force, make, necessitate, oblige, plight, urge). (various references)

Russian		обязывать (bind over, call for, oblige, tie), обязательный (binding, bound, compulsory, mandatory, obligatory, obliging), облигатный (obligatory). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		obavezati (bind, charge, oblige, pin down), zadužiti (encumber, mortgage). (various references)

Spanish		obligar (bind, coerce, compel, constrain, draft, draught, enforce, force, oblige, push, sandbag, tie down, trust). (various references)

Swedish		förplikta (bind, compel, force, oblige). (various references)

Thai		ผูกมัด (attach to, bond). (various references)

Turkish		zorunda bırakmak (compel, oblige, reduce), zorlamak (be urgent with smb., bludgeon, bully, clamor down, clamour down, coerce, compel, constrain, cow smb. into, cozen, do violence to, drag in, drive, edge on, enforce, exact, force, impel, impose, impress, lean upon, outrage, press, press-gang smb. into doing smth., pressure, push, push smb. for, railroad, railroad into doing, stampede, strain, stretch, subdue, sweat, twist smb.'s arm, urge, worry, wrest), mecbur etmek (coerce, compel, constrain, cow smb. into, force, oblige, pin, pin down, railroad, railroad into doing, reduce, subject). (various references)

Ukranian		зобов'язувати (assign, call for, enjoin, impose, indebt, oblige, tie, tie up). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "obligate": obligated, obligately, obligates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Obligate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: obbligati, obligade, obligatto, obligue, oblivate, Olgiati, oliate, oligodt. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "obligate" (pronounced Ä"blugā't)
5	-l u g ā' t	delegate, relegate.
4	-u g ā' t	abrogate, castigate, congregate, corrugate, desegregate, fumigate, instigate, interrogate, investigate, irrigate, mitigate, navigate, propagate, segregate, subjugate.
3	-g ā' t	arrogate, floodgate, litigate, profligate, tailgate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-l-o-t"
	-1 letter: globate.
	-2 letters: aiglet, albeit, albite, boatel, boleti, galiot, gelati, gelato, giblet, goalie, goblet, latigo, legato, ligate, lobate, obelia, oblate, oblige.
	-3 letters: aboil, agile, aglet, bagel, begat, begot, belga, bigot, bilge, biota, blate, bleat, blite, bloat, bogie, bogle, boite, botel, gable, gleba, gloat, globe, legit, logia, obeli, table, telia, teloi, togae, toile.
	-4 letters: abet, able.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-i-l-o-t"
	+1 letter: cogitable, obligated, obligates.
	+2 letters: negotiable, obligately.
	+3 letters: amblygonite, elaborating, outbleating.
	+4 letters: amblygonites, bacteriology, forgeability, geobotanical, metabolizing, obliterating, renegotiable, unnegotiable.
	+5 letters: bacteriologic, copyrightable, diabetologist, gubernatorial, megaloblastic, negotiability, nonnegotiable, subcollegiate, troublemaking.
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