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    COLLIMATE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

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

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

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

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

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)play

    Classified under:

    Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

    adjust; align; aline; line up (place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight)

    Domain category:

    optics (the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

    Derivation:

    collimation (the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope)

    collimator (a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Make or place parallel to somethingplay

    Example:

    They paralleled the ditch to the highway

    Synonyms:

    collimate; parallel

    Classified under:

    Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

    alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something

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