formate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any salt or ester of formic acid.
    — But most likely my judgement was distorted by my contempt for his acting the young buck [...] for ever waxing his moustaches and loading himself with medicaments supposed to replace the failing sap of youth, glycerophosphates, formates, nux vomica, yohimba, damiana.
动词 v.
  1. To assemble flying aircraft into formation; to fly in formation.
    — Tiger Moths from the Reserve Flying Schools at Rochester and Cambridge competed with each other at formating in the gusty conditions, Rochester just winning.

词形变化

formates plural formates present,singular,third-person formating participle,present formated participle,past formated past

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English formic
English -ate
English formate
From formic + -ate (“salt or ester”).
词源 2
Back-formation from formation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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