The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
QUADRATED
Verb
quadrated
simple past tense and past participle of quadrate
Source: Wiktionary
QUADRATE
Quad"rate, a. Etym: [L. quadratus squared, p. p. of quadrare to make four-cornered, to make square, to square, to fit, suit, from quadrus square, quattuor four. See Quadrant, and cf. Quadrat, Quarry an arrow, Square.]
1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate. Foxe.
2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. " Quadrate and cubical numbers." Sir T. Browne.
3. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. [Archaic] " A quadrate, solid, wise man." Howell.
4. Squared; suited; correspondent. [Archaic] " A generical description quadrate to both." Harvey. Quadrate bone (Anat.), a bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates below the mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the malleus or incus.
Quad"rate, n. Etym: [L. quadratum. See Quadrate, a.]
1. (Geom.)
Definition: A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. At which command, the powers militant That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined. Milton.
2. (Astrol.)
Definition: An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90Âş, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.
3. (Anat.)
Definition: The quadrate bone.
Quad"rate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quadrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Quadrating.] Etym: [See Quadrate, a.]
Definition: To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with. [Archaic] The objections of these speculatists of its forms do not quadrate with their theories. Burke.
Quad"rate, v. t.
Definition: To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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