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adj
Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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adj
Pertaining to taking away or removing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable
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adj
Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: aerospace, astronautics, business, engineering, natural-sciences, nautical, physical-sciences, transport
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adj
Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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adj
Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
The ablative case.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
An ablative material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
relating to the ablative case
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective satellite
tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ablative case
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Broader terms: oblique, oblique case
History
From Middle English ablative, ablatife, ablatyf, ablatif, from Old French ablatif (“the ablative case”), from Latin ablātīvus (“expressing removal”), from ablātus (“taken away”), from auferō (“to take away”). The engineering/nautical sense originates from ablate + -ive.
Across languages
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
