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    CATENATE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they catenate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it catenates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: catenated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: catenated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: catenating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for sporesplay

    Synonyms:

    catenate; catenulate

    Classified under:

    Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

    arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)

    Sentence frame:

    Something ----s something

    Derivation:

    catena (a chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma))

    chain (a series of things depending on each other as if linked together)

    chain ((chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule))

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