conjugate
Other forms: conjugated; conjugating; conjugates
Conjugate is what you do to a word to make it agree with other words in a sentence. If you’ve studied a foreign language, you know that sometimes you can conjugate a verb just by changing its endings.
To conjugate the verb to be, you’d say “I am,” “you are,” “she is,” and so on. You’re changing the form of the verb to make it agree with the subject. You might conjugate other words to make them agree in number, gender, or tense. In chemistry, conjugate means "to join together." It can also be an adjective, meaning "joined," or "joined in pairs," like the conjugate leaf of an Oak tree.
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undergo conjugation
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type of:
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change
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
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change
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add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.“conjugate the verb”
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type of:
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inflect
change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language
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inflect
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unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds
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joined together especially in a pair or pairs
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synonyms:
conjugated, coupled
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united
characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity
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united
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(of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets
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Synonyms:
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compound
composed of more than one part
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compound
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of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond
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synonyms:
conjugated
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bound
held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
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bound
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formed by the union of two compounds“a conjugated protein”
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synonyms:
conjugated
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bound
held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
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bound
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a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A
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synonyms:
conjugate solution
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type of:
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solution
a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution
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solution
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Vocabulary lists containing conjugate
After twelve-year-old Jake accidentally eats ingestible information pills that he mistakes for jelly beans, he becomes the smartest kid in the world and must use his new brain power to help save his middle school from the evil vice principals' dastardly plot.
Ellie, an eleven-year-old girl from Texas, learns to stand up for herself and confront bullies who tease her about her weight.
In this verse novel, 13-year-old Reha grapples with her identity as an Indian-American while trying to cope with her mother’s illness.
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