LIBRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does librate mean? 

• LIBRATE (verb)
  The verb LIBRATE has 2 senses:

1. determine the weight of

2. vibrate before coming to a total rest

  Familiarity information: LIBRATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIBRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they librate    ... he / she / it librates   
Past simple: librated   
Past participle: librated   
-ing form: librating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determine the weight of

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

librate; weigh

Context example:

The butcher weighed the chicken

Hypernyms (to "librate" is one way to...):

measure; quantify (express as a number or measure or quantity)

Verb group:

weigh (have a certain weight)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "librate"):

heft (test the weight of something by lifting it)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Vibrate before coming to a total rest

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

the children's swing librated

Hypernyms (to "librate" is one way to...):

oscillate; vibrate (move or swing from side to side regularly)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

libration ((astronomy) a real or apparent slow oscillation of a moon or satellite)