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PROLATES
Verb
prolates
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prolate
Anagrams
• LaPortes, Laportes, Plateros, Pole Star, Portales, Portelas, patroles, petrosal, pole star, polestar, portsale
Source: Wiktionary
PROLATE
Pro"late, a. Etym: [L. prolatus, used as p. p. of proferre to bring forth, to extend; pro + latus, p. p. See Pro-, and Tolerate. ]
Definition: Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate. Prolate cycloid. See the Note under Cycloid.
– Prolate ellipsoid or spheroid (Geom.), a figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.
Pro*late", v. t.
Definition: To utter; to pronounce. [Obs.] "Foun-der-ed; prolate it right." B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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