concatenate
Americanverb (used with object)
adjective
verb
adjective
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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has concatenatedperfect 3rd person singular
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have concatenatedperfect
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are concatenatingprogressive
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is concatenatingprogressive 3rd person singular
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am concatenatingprogressive 1st person singular
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have been concatenatingperfect progressive
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concatenatessingular 3rd person
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has been concatenatingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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concatenatingparticiple
Past
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had concatenatedperfect
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was concatenatingprogressive singular
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concatenatedsimple
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had been concatenatingperfect progressive
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were concatenatingprogressive plural
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concatenatedparticiple
Future
Etymology
Origin of concatenate
1425–75; late Middle English (past participle) < Late Latin concatēnātus (past participle of concatēnāre ), equivalent to con- con- + Latin catēn ( a ) chain + -ātus -ate 1
Explanation
Did you just link together several memories of your brother to form one longer story for his wedding toast? If so, you concatenated without knowing it! That’s because concatenate means to link things together to form a series or chain. In truth, the word concatenate is really a mouthful. It's hard to imagine anyone using it when they could use a synonym, such as link for the verb form and linked for the adjective form, just as well. But if you’re looking to impress with big words, try it out! To understand the situation in the Middle East, you have to concatenate the events of the past 50 years. You can tell others about that book you really love which is really a concatenate series of related poems.
Vocabulary lists containing concatenate
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Example Sentences
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In any collection worth our admiration, the end and shape of one story should cast its shadow over the next, and so on, until they all concatenate and form a greater shape by book's end.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2015
Dark Horse Green Word that typewriters, revolver shots and police sirens would concatenate in Carnegie Hall, last week drew a crowd unaccustomed to entering Manhattan's most formal music house.
From Time Magazine Archive
But why did he desire to concatenate this with the old Logic?
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
Spinous-radiate: beset with spines in a circle, either concatenate, united at their bases, or setaceous, like bristles.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
It is far more often used to blast a file to standard output than to concatenate two files.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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