Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a keel; furnished with or exhibiting a longitudinal ridge resembling the keel of a boat, as a leaf or other object; ridged lengthwise in the middle underneath, as the sternum of a carinate bird (see cut under
carinate ); carinated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having a median ridge; carinate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
keel . - adjective Furnished with a
keel , especially a keel of a specified type
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship
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Examples
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Although he makes the point that the periphery is "hardly to be called keeled", to me "carinated", "angular" and "keeled" all mean more or less the same thing, especially when the degree of carination is variable.
Archive 2007-02-01 AYDIN 2007
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Although he makes the point that the periphery is "hardly to be called keeled", to me "carinated", "angular" and "keeled" all mean more or less the same thing, especially when the degree of carination is variable.
Anguispira alternata angulata AYDIN 2007
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Its bays are square, and the groin ribs consist each of three round mouldings, of which the most prominent is 'keeled'; [88] but what is most remarkable is that there are also ridge-ribs, which are not usually found before the thirteenth century, and it has been suggested [89] that this is the earliest instance of their employment.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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He looked kind of keeled over, his head on a cement step.
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Jian Ghomeshi is entertaining, intelligent and even keeled.
Five Things To Be Grateful For: the Cornucopia List « Colleen Anderson 2010
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"He pointed at the television and said 'He's not technically President,' and then he keeled over," said pal Jim Lawrence today.
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It's all right, no one keeled over; we got the front and back doors open quick enough that the smoke alarms didn't go off, though it was chilly for a bit as the cold air rushed in.
p_n_elrod: A real mystery! p_n_elrod 2010
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Now, if an even-keeled non-partisan person had written a chapter, I'd be taken aback by it, but the fact that greenie was involved really has no effect on me.
A Nation of Entrepreneurs?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He has never been partial to the supports that, like the legs of daddy longlegs spiders, angle out from lower decks to hold them upright while their keels rest on the forest floor, but there was no better way to park a sharp-keeled ship on land.
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I keep participating in the dialogue - I'm mostly even-keeled and not upset when I do, or I wouldn't.
Yes, I Really Love My Children Zenmomma 2009
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