Log in or Sign up
  1. coordinate love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that is equal in importance, rank, or degree.
  2. n. A set of articles, as of clothing or luggage, designed to match or complement one other, as in style or color.
  3. n. Mathematics Any of a set of two or more numbers used to determine the position of a point, line, curve, or plane in a space of a given dimension with respect to a system of lines or other fixed references.
  4. n. Of or relating to a university in which men and women are taught by the same faculty but in single-sex classes or on single-sex campuses.
  5. n. Informal Directions: Give me some coordinates so I can find my way.
  6. adj. Of equal importance, rank, or degree: coordinate offices of a business.
  7. adj. Of or involving coordination.
  8. adj. Of or based on a system of coordinates.
  9. adj. Grammar Having equal syntactic status: coordinate phrases.
  10. v. To place in the same order, class, or rank.
  11. v. To harmonize in a common action or effort: coordinating the moving parts of a machine; coordinate the colors of a design.
  12. v. To be coordinate: The generators coordinate so that one is always running.
  13. v. To work together harmoniously: a nursing staff that coordinates smoothly.
  14. v. To form a pleasing combination; match: shoes that coordinate with the rest of the outfit.
  15. v. Grammar To link (syntactically equivalent units) together.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of the same rank, equal.
  2. n. mathematics, cartography A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.
  3. n. Something that is equal to another thing.
  4. v. transitive To synchronize (activities).
  5. v. transitive To match (objects, especially clothes).

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a number that identifies a position relative to an axis
  2. v. be co-ordinated
  3. v. bring into common action, movement, or condition
  4. adj. of equal importance, rank, or degree
  5. v. bring order and organization to
  6. v. bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation

Etymologies

  1. From Medieval Latin coordinatus, past participle of coordinare ("arrange together"), from Latin co- ("together") + ordinare ("arrange"). See ordain and ordinate. (Wiktionary)
  2. co- + ordinate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

Show 10 more examples...

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘coordinate’.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for coordinate.

‘coordinate’ has been looked up 2560 times, loved by 3 people, added to 19 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 13.