conjugate

Meanings

• verb

  To form the inflected forms of (a verb), especially to form the past, present perfect, and past participle.

  - "He conjugates the verb 'to be' in the past tense."
  - "The past participle of 'to go' is 'gone', which is formed by conjugating the verb."

• verb

  To combine or join two things or groups.

  - "The two companies decided to conjugate their forces."
  - "The chemist conjugated the ions to form a stable complex."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with conjugate
conjure , figure , higher , quagmire , spire

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Variants

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conjugate , conjugately , conjugateness , conjugatenesses , conjugated , conjugates , conjugating , conjugate complex number , conjugate complex numbers

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Forms

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conjugated, conjugates, conjugating

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Etymology

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From the Latin conjugare, meaning 'to join together'.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'conjugate' comes from the Latin word 'conjugare', which means 'to join together'.

2. In mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex number is the number obtained by changing the sign of the imaginary part.

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Related Concepts

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1. Inflection: The process of adding inflections to a word to indicate its grammatical function in a sentence.

2. Conjugation table: A table that shows all the inflected forms of a verb.

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In mathematics, conjugate is used to denote the complex conjugate, which is a number of the form a + bi, where a is the real part and b is the imaginary part. The term has also been used in literature, particularly in the works of Charles Dickens and Herman Melville.

How to Memorize "conjugate"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize the process of adding inflections to a verb to remember the meaning of 'conjugate'.
   - Imagine forming the past tense of a verb by adding '-ed' to the base form.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the meaning of 'conjugate' with the idea of joining or combining, as in the joining of inflections to a verb to form its different forms.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'Cats Have Four Paws' to remember the past tense of regular verbs, where 'conjugate' is the 'C' and 'paws' represent the past tense forms '-ed'.

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