ORDINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ordinate mean? 

• ORDINATE (noun)
  The noun ORDINATE has 1 sense:

1. the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis

  Familiarity information: ORDINATE used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. appoint to a clerical posts

2. bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation

  Familiarity information: ORDINATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDINATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The value of a coordinate on the vertical axis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ordinate" is a kind of...):

Cartesian coordinate (one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes)

• ORDINATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ordinate    ... he / she / it ordinates   
Past simple: ordinated   
Past participle: ordinated   
-ing form: ordinating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Appoint to a clerical posts

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

consecrate; ordain; order; ordinate

Context example:

he was ordained in the Church

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

enthrone; invest; vest (provide with power and authority)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

align; coordinate; ordinate

Context example:

ordinate similar parts

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

adjust; correct; set (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard)

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

misalign (align imperfectly or badly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

These kinases translate and co-ordinate the calcium fluctuations into the appropriate cellular responses via phosphorylation.

(Calmodulin Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A plot whose ordinate is a quantifier, such as some measure of activity concentration, at points around an annulus in a slice, and whose abscissa is in degrees.

(Circumferential Profile Plot, NCI Thesaurus)