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durate

durate verb: to have, or last for, some duration (of time).

Verb

durate (third-person singular simple present durates, present participle durating, simple past and past participle durated)

  1. (uncommon) To have, or last for, some duration (of time).
    • But in the same way as we shall say of our simple creature that he perceives his sensation when it exists at all, and that he perceives time when it (the sensation) durates at all, 80 we shall say he perceives a certain definite[…]1891, Herbert Nichols, The Psychology of Time: Historically and Philosophically Considered, with Extended Experiments
    • "Perception of time duration is always a process and never a state — for us to perceive five seconds, something must durate five seconds, for us to perceive a year some definite sensation would have to durate a year."1903, Mary Hallock-Greenewalt, Pulse and Rhythm, page 430

Forms of durate

third-person singular presentdurates
present participledurating
past participledurated
pastdurated

Origin of durate

Back-formation from duration.

Questions about durate

What does durate mean?
Durate means to have, or last for, some duration (of time).
What part of speech is durate?
Durate is a verb.
What is the past tense of durate?
The past tense of durate is durated.

Words near durate in the dictionary

  1. durargid
  2. durargids
  3. duras
  4. Durasian
  5. Durassian
  6. durate
  7. durated
  8. durates
  9. durating
  10. duration
  11. durational

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