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PLICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plicate mean? 

PLICATE (verb)
  The verb PLICATE has 1 sense:

1. fold into pleatsplay

  Familiarity information: PLICATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLICATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they plicate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it plicates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: plicated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: plicated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: plicating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Fold into pleats

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

pleat; plicate

Context example:

Pleat the cloth

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

fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

plication (the act of folding in parallel folds)

plication (an angular or rounded shape made by folding)


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