Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having wings or winglike extensions.
- noun A winged insect of a species that has both wingless and winged forms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of late; lately.
- Winged; having membranous expansions like wings.
- Specifically— In botany, applied to stems and leaf-stalks with the edges or angles longitudinally expanded into leaf-like borders, or to other organs having membranous expansions: opposed to apterous.
- In conchology, having an expanded lip: applied to shells. See cut under
A porrhaidæ . - In architecture, having wings, as a building: as, “an alate temple,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.
- adverb Archaic Lately; of late.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb archaic
recently ;lately ;of late - adjective entomology, botany Having winglike extensions or parts;
winged . - noun A winged,
reproductive form of severalsocial insects
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You run for the VP GOP ticket, drag your family through the mud, travel to the lower 48, get inot sqabble wit alate nite comic, and you blame the media?
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It was alate at night and a wee dram must affected the grey cell motion.
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Before I woke Poddy I took care of that alate pseudosimian, that "fairy."
Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963
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Before I woke Poddy I took care of that alate pseudosimian, that "fairy."
Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963
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This latter name I consider the correct one, for these organs unquestionably preside over alate equilibrium: they are true balancers.
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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The old Battery out on the marshes was our place of study, and a broken slate and a short piece of alate pencil were our educational implements: to which Joe always added a pipe of tobacco.
Great Expectations 1860
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New co-owner David Sullivan has reacted angrily to Spurs making alate move to take Gudjohnsen from Monaco, after the Icelandinternational had undergone a medical and looked set to join GianfrancoZola's squad.
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New co-owner David Sullivan has reacted angrily to Spurs making alate move to take Gudjohnsen from Monaco, after the Icelandinternational had undergone a medical and looked set to join GianfrancoZola's squad.
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New co-owner David Sullivan has reacted angrily to Spurs making alate move to take Gudjohnsen from Monaco, after the Icelandinternational had undergone a medical and looked set to join GianfrancoZola's squad.
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This one had built its web around an outside light, where it managed to snare an ant alate.
A Snail's Eye View Snail 2010
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US Railway Assn. Standard Cipher Code, 1906; telegraphers' shorthand for "agent's balance sheet shows large balance; investigate and report".
January 19, 2013