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alligate

/ˈælɪɡeɪt/

alligate verb: to bind or tie; to unite.

Verb

alligate (third-person singular simple present alligates, present participle alligating, simple past and past participle alligated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To bind or tie; to unite.
    • Instincts alligated to their nature.a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […]...
    • Poor Blind Tom, the very tail end of the long decadency, has a gift that alligates him to the angels.1887, S. F. Walker, The Ruins Revisited, and the World-story Retold, page 38
  2. To solve an arithmetic problem concerning proportions by means of alligation; to associate as having the same ratio.
    • Link or alligate the branches, so as one greater and another less than the root may be linked or yoked together.1859, J. Smith Homans, A Cyclopedia of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, page 27

Adjective

alligate (not comparable)

  1. Having the same proportion or ratio.
    • The proportional parts are then found by reducing the alligate parts to the same denominator , dropping the denominators and writing the numerators .1938, Joseph A. Zappa, Civil Service Manual: Mental Tests for Federal Examinations, page 94

alligate meaning in Tamil and Bengali

alligate in Tamil

பிணை, சேர்த்திணை, கட்டு, இணைப்புச்செய்

alligate in Bengali

বাঁধা, একত্রিত করা, সমান অনুপাত সংবলিত

Forms of alligate

third-person singular presentalligates
present participlealligating
past participlealligated
pastalligated

Origin of alligate

From Latin alligatus (“tied, bound”), past participle of alligo (“to bind”), from ad + ligo (“to bind”). Doublet of alloy.

Questions about alligate

What does alligate mean?
Alligate means to bind or tie; to unite.
What is alligate in Tamil?
Alligate in Tamil is பிணை, சேர்த்திணை, கட்டு. See Alligate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is alligate?
Alligate can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce alligate?
Alligate is pronounced /ˈælɪɡeɪt/.
What is the past tense of alligate?
The past tense of alligate is alligated.

Words near alligate in the dictionary

  1. allieth
  2. alligant
  3. alligants
  4. alligarta
  5. alligartas
  6. alligate
  7. alligated
  8. alligates
  9. alligating
  10. alligation
  11. alligation medial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alligate (page history and authors); alligate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); alligate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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