emarginate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
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medicine
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Etymology: From Latin emarginare; e- (“out”) + marginare (“to furnish with a margin”), from margo (“margin”).
Inflected forms:
form: more emarginate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most emarginate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: emarginates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: emarginating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: emarginated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: emarginated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex.
pos: adj
gloss: Having roughly the same height or width for most of its length, becoming much shallower or narrower before reaching the attachment point.
pos: adj
examples: In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is emarginate.
gloss: Having a margin that has concave edges as though with parts removed or notched.
pos: adj
examples: 1840 Georges Cuvier Cuvier's Animal kingdom (intranslation).
In the Haliotus, Lam, the shell is perforated along the side of the columella with a series of holes; and when the last hole remains incomplete, the shell has the appearance of beiing emarginate.
gloss: Of a crystal: having edges or corners of the primitive form beveled, crossed by a face.
pos: adj
gloss: To take away the margin of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The radius resembles that of Nesodon in form, but is proportionately shorter and stouter; the distal end is especially massive and the scaphoid facet emarginates the dorsal border more deeply and in a more conspicuous way.
a radial depression extends from the beak to the anterior ventral margin, which it slightly emarginates;
At most, the groove emarginates only one-third the distal surface of the femur.
gloss: To lose the margin.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The palate in Leptictis emarginates between M's.
This membrane emarginates at intervals, forming pits.
The body shape is mostly circular in stage 1, then becomes elongated, and the hindbody emarginates at later stages.
gloss: To marginalize.
pos: verb
examples: Hegel ignores, represses, and emarginates these factors in order to found his logic on a dialectic conceived as the appropriation of the other, rather than a becoming other (Anderswerden).
Indeed, it has been argued that the theory of Anglo conformity is inherently discriminatory: it requires assimilation into a majoritarian culture and inferentially emarginates other legitimate forms of cultural expression .
The economic process, then, converges in that space and emarginates whole categories of residents from zones rendered inaccessible to them because they are beyond their financial means.
Their antisocial behavior may be a conscious or subconscious act against a system that they feel to be uncaring and oppressive, and that, in their opinion, emarginates them from the mainstream of society.
Derived words: emarginately
subemarginate
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: lanttopäinen
lang: Portuguese
word: emarginado
lang: Russian
word: вы́емчатый
roman: výjemčatyj