Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To connect or link in a series or chain.
- v. Computer Science To arrange (strings of characters) into a chained list.
- adj. Connected or linked in a series.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To link together; unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.
- Linked together in a chain or series; concatenated; specifically, in entomology, united at the base: applied to spines or other processes when their bases are joined by ridges or raised lines.
Wiktionary
- v. To join or link together, as though in a chain.
- v. Computer instruction to join two strings together.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.
WordNet 3.0
- v. combine two strings to form a single one
- v. add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series
Etymologies
- From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre ("to link or chain together"), from con ("with") + catēnō ("chain, bind"), from catēna ("a chain"). (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin concatēnāre, concatēnāt- : com-, com- + catēnāre, to bind (from Latin catēna, chain). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“· Join supported files (mp4, 3gp) end-to-end aka concatenate joining.”
“The runner up was Samuel Valentine, an eighth grader from Andrew Lewis Middle School in Salem, who missed the word "concatenate," which means to link together.”
“The 36 other middle school students were tripped up on words like "concatenate,”
“Mail will, by default, "concatenate" messages from all of your accounts, and show them in the main "Inbox.”
“Well, I have English as a second language and I found this thread only because it contains the word "concatenate".”
“What I like especially: They highlight how entrepreneurship can be significantly discoordinating in the Schelling sense of mutual coordination, while significantly coordinating in the Coase/Hayek sense of concatenate or extensive coordination.”
Jerry Muller on Schumpeter, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Isn't the oil gusher becoming a world wide summit and not just a US landmark, as the cascading effects concatenate?”
The Huffington Post: DK Matai: Butterfly Effect, Oil Gusher & Edge of Chaos: World Wide Summit?
“Create all the "names" I want, or paste them from another list, and then concatenate them together with the "md" command make directory.”
New Folder Wizard Makes Bulk Folder Creation Effortless | Lifehacker Australia
“I use the Excel method for this, combining a filldown series with concatenate.”
New Folder Wizard Makes Bulk Folder Creation Effortless | Lifehacker Australia
“It seems to concatenate paragraphs without any whitespace in between.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘concatenate’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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SCIE - graph theory
antiparallel, convex polyhedron, nonadjacent, acyclic, isomorphic, vertex, graph, planar, homomorphism, factorization, adjacency, disjoint and 423 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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Victorious Verbs
exudate, agglutinate, permeate, penetrate, attenuate, aggregate, emaciate, concatenate, exonerate, castigate, promulgate, obstinate and 2 more...
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connection
link, connect, intertwine, interlace, connective, conjunction, joined, coadunate, connexion, interdigitate, ligature, transilient and 39 more...
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oona's list
mongolian, inuit, vagabond, strange, hypersensitive, sarcastic,
hooliganisms, manak, redonkulous, extract, educe, omphalos, luftmensch, obsequious, missive, heteronyms, homographs, caucasian and 34 more...
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February 2012
filiopietistic, bifurcate, enclave, wedlock, decadent, unduly, defunct, lapel, tumescent, capitulation, leaden, scintilla and 83 more...
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My GRE Vocab
moniker, sobriquet, prerogative, aberration, aberrant, nuance, notorious, infamous, content, refer, allude, renown and 109 more...
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GRE Words
abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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Appellations
States of ment.
off kilter, fervent, nonchalant, exuberant, turbid, verbose, eloquent, vicarious, gallivant, orotund, amalgamate, accentuate and 285 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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pixistix's Words
cumquat, circumlocution, panoply, propinquity, contumely, quietus, fardel, tmesis, tipsy, giddy, trudge, vortex and 211 more...
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Miscellany, pt. c
chokedamp, clitter, circumbendibus, catmint, cacoëpy, co-feoffee, caribou, conturbation, chalicothere, calamus, cochineal, cincture and 168 more...
Tweets
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blafferty Love me some concatenate. Oct 26, 2011
blubegonia me too, me too! and now, i use it all the time; getting that "concatenate" formulate to combine columns into one. Dec 12, 2008
ulleskelf I didn't even know this word existed until I was using Excel and found there was a function called this. Oct 12, 2007