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Conjugate   /kˌɑndʒəgˈeɪt/  /kˈɑndʒəgˌeɪt/   Listen
Conjugate

noun
1.
A mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A.  Synonym: conjugate solution.
verb
(past & past part. conjugated; pres. part. conjugating)
1.
Unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds.
2.
Add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc..
3.
Undergo conjugation.
adjective
1.
Joined together especially in a pair or pairs.  Synonyms: conjugated, coupled.
2.
(of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets.
3.
Formed by the union of two compounds.  Synonym: conjugated.
4.
Of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond.  Synonym: conjugated.



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"Conjugate" Quotes from Famous Books



... of precocious children or child geniuses who make a strong mark in their early years and drop into oblivion by the time they're twenty. Now, consider James Holden, sitting there discussing something with his attorney—I have no doubt in the world that he could conjugate Latin verbs, discuss the effect of the Fall of Rome on Western Civilization, and probably compute the orbit of an artificial satellite. But can James Holden fly a kite or shoot a marble? Has he ever had the fun of sliding into third base, ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
... Dannisburgh, except in naming him among her guests. She wrote this, which might have a secret personal signification: 'We women are the verbs passive of the alliance; we have to learn, and if we take to activity, with the best intentions, we conjugate a frightful disturbance. We are to run on lines, like the steam-trains, or we come to no station, dash to fragments. I have the misfortune to know I was born an active. I ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... "the chapel recitation will be in grammar; you will conjugate," Miss Amanda simpered, "the verb—to love," with playful meaning in her emphasis; "but I need have no fear, young ladies," archly, "that you will let yourselves be beaten at ...
— Emmy Lou - Her Book and Heart • George Madden Martin
... in order to secure an attention to Homer and Virgil, we must catch up every man, whether he is to be a clergyman or a duke, begin with him at six years of age, and never quit him till he is twenty; making him conjugate and decline for life and death; and so teaching him to estimate his progress in real wisdom as he can scan the verses of the ...
— Sydney Smith • George W. E. Russell
... cramming the class with Latin grammar. He had a way of making some poor stumbler conjugate the same verb fifteen to twenty times in succession, so that the correct sequence might never again escape his memory. And as the red-faced sinner stammered out the tenses, the Rector would make a tube of his left hand into which he poked his ...
— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman


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