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Meaning of "gravitate" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GRAVITATE

gravitate  [ˈɡrævɪˌteɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRAVITATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gravitate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb gravitate in English.

WHAT DOES GRAVITATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gravitation

Gravitation, or gravity, is a natural phenomenon by which all physical bodies attract each other. It is most commonly recognized and experienced as the agent that gives weight to physical objects and causes physical objects to fall toward the ground when dropped from a height. It is hypothesized that the gravitational force is mediated by a massless spin-2 particle called the graviton. Gravity is one of the four fundamental forces of nature, along with electromagnetism, and the nuclear strong force and weak force. Colloquially, gravitation is a force of attraction that acts between and on all physical objects with matter or energy. In modern physics, gravitation is most accurately described by the general theory of relativity proposed by Einstein, which asserts that the phenomenon of gravitation is a consequence of the curvature of spacetime. In pursuit of a theory of everything, the merging of general relativity and quantum mechanics into a more general theory of quantum gravity has become an area of active research.

Definition of gravitate in the English dictionary

The first definition of gravitate in the dictionary is to move under the influence of gravity. Other definition of gravitate is usually foll by to or towards to be influenced or drawn, as by strong impulses. Gravitate is also to sink or settle.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GRAVITATE

PRESENT

Present
I gravitate
you gravitate
he/she/it gravitates
we gravitate
you gravitate
they gravitate
Present continuous
I am gravitating
you are gravitating
he/she/it is gravitating
we are gravitating
you are gravitating
they are gravitating
Present perfect
I have gravitated
you have gravitated
he/she/it has gravitated
we have gravitated
you have gravitated
they have gravitated
Present perfect continuous
I have been gravitating
you have been gravitating
he/she/it has been gravitating
we have been gravitating
you have been gravitating
they have been gravitating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I gravitated
you gravitated
he/she/it gravitated
we gravitated
you gravitated
they gravitated
Past continuous
I was gravitating
you were gravitating
he/she/it was gravitating
we were gravitating
you were gravitating
they were gravitating
Past perfect
I had gravitated
you had gravitated
he/she/it had gravitated
we had gravitated
you had gravitated
they had gravitated
Past perfect continuous
I had been gravitating
you had been gravitating
he/she/it had been gravitating
we had been gravitating
you had been gravitating
they had been gravitating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will gravitate
you will gravitate
he/she/it will gravitate
we will gravitate
you will gravitate
they will gravitate
Future continuous
I will be gravitating
you will be gravitating
he/she/it will be gravitating
we will be gravitating
you will be gravitating
they will be gravitating
Future perfect
I will have gravitated
you will have gravitated
he/she/it will have gravitated
we will have gravitated
you will have gravitated
they will have gravitated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been gravitating
you will have been gravitating
he/she/it will have been gravitating
we will have been gravitating
you will have been gravitating
they will have been gravitating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would gravitate
you would gravitate
he/she/it would gravitate
we would gravitate
you would gravitate
they would gravitate
Conditional continuous
I would be gravitating
you would be gravitating
he/she/it would be gravitating
we would be gravitating
you would be gravitating
they would be gravitating
Conditional perfect
I would have gravitate
you would have gravitate
he/she/it would have gravitate
we would have gravitate
you would have gravitate
they would have gravitate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been gravitating
you would have been gravitating
he/she/it would have been gravitating
we would have been gravitating
you would have been gravitating
they would have been gravitating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you gravitate
we let´s gravitate
you gravitate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to gravitate
Past participle
gravitated
Present Participle
gravitating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRAVITATE


acetate
ˈæsɪˌteɪt
agitate
ˈædʒɪˌteɪt
capacitate
kəˈpæsɪˌteɪt
capitate
ˈkæpɪˌteɪt
cogitate
ˈkɒdʒɪˌteɪt
debilitate
dɪˈbɪlɪˌteɪt
decapitate
dɪˈkæpɪˌteɪt
digitate
ˈdɪdʒɪˌteɪt
facilitate
fəˈsɪlɪˌteɪt
hesitate
ˈhɛzɪˌteɪt
imitate
ˈɪmɪˌteɪt
irritate
ˈɪrɪˌteɪt
levitate
ˈlɛvɪˌteɪt
meditate
ˈmɛdɪˌteɪt
necessitate
nɪˈsɛsɪˌteɪt
palmitate
ˈpælmɪˌteɪt
precipitate
prɪˈsɪpɪˌteɪt
rehabilitate
ˌriːəˈbɪlɪˌteɪt
resuscitate
rɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt
triacetate
traɪˈæsɪˌteɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRAVITATE

gravitas
gravitation
gravitational
gravitational constant
gravitational field
gravitational force
gravitational interaction
gravitational lens
gravitational mass
gravitational pull
gravitational wave
gravitationally
gravitative
gravities
gravitino
gravitometer
graviton
gravity
gravity anomaly
gravity cell

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRAVITATE

cavitate
cryoprecipitate
delimitate
estate
excogitate
expeditate
felicitate
habilitate
incapacitate
infinitate
interdigitate
militate
multidigitate
nobilitate
oscitate
palpitate
premeditate
quantitate
regurgitate
stipitate
suscitate

Synonyms and antonyms of gravitate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GRAVITATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gravitate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of gravitate
descend · drop · fall · incline · lean · move · precipitate · settle · sink · tend

Translation of «gravitate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRAVITATE

Find out the translation of gravitate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gravitate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gravitate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

受吸引
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gravitar
570 millions of speakers

English

gravitate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

केंद्र की ओर झुकना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تنجذب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тяготеют
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gravitar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঝুঁকিয়ে পড়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

graviter
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menarik perhatian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tendieren zu
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

引き付けられる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

~에 끌리다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gravitate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

châu về
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஈர்ப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुरूत्वाकर्षण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çekilmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gravitare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ciążyć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тяжіють
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gravita
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κλίνουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

swaartekrag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gravitera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gravitate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gravitate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRAVITATE»

The term «gravitate» is quite widely used and occupies the 47.294 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRAVITATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «gravitate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «gravitate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gravitate

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10 QUOTES WITH «GRAVITATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gravitate.
1
Grant Achatz
Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.
2
Donovan Bailey
I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.
3
Matthew Barney
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
4
Justin Bartha
For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.
5
Michael Bay
There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.
6
Peter L. Berger
Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.
7
Anne Carson
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
8
Emma Caulfield
I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.
9
Nadia Comaneci
I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
10
John Corigliano
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRAVITATE»

Discover the use of gravitate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gravitate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Python in Practice: Create Better Programs Using ...
which we won't cover; gravitate/Help.py, which we covered in the previous section (§7.2.2.2, 250 ➤); and gravitate/Preferences.py, which we covered earlier (§7.2.2.1, 245 ➤). The main window's central area is occupied by a Board from ...
Mark Summerfield, 2013
2
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
... other to cause the beans therein to gravitate to the lower side, a cutting mechanism on each side of 'the path of motion of said carriers and supported on said vertically reciprocating frame in position to successively enter the depressed sides ...
‎1918
3
Official gazette of the United States Patent Office
In a typewriter, the combination of a carriage, means for supporting the carriage for longitudinal movement, a sliding platen supported on the carriage for transverse movement, and arranged to gravitate to its normal position relative to the ...
United States. Patent Office, 1907
4
Game Programming: The L Line, The Express Line to Learning
The most convenient way to incorporate planetary gravity is to call the planet's gravitate() method from within the program's main loop: That way the planet can exert its gravitational pull on anything, including other ships and even planets.
Andy Harris, 2007
5
A Survey Of Experimental Philosophy: Considered in Its ...
If I see a stone gravitate here, and another gravitate or fall in America, I allow the fall in both to proceed from the same cause. But if I see the moon gravitate towards the earth, (as will shortly be seen me does) if I see the earth gravitate towards ...
Oliver Goldsmith, 1776
6
Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic
Now, here the consequent contains much more than was contained in the antecedent. Experience, the antecedent, only says, and only can say, this, that, and the other body gravitate, (that is, some bodies gravitate) ; the consequent reduced ...
Sir William Hamilton, Henry Longueville Mansel, John Veitch, 1860
7
The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton
that, and the other body gravitate (that is, some bodies gravitate) ; the consequent educed from that antecedent, says, — all bodies gravitate. The antecedent is limited, — the consequent unlimited. Something, therefore, has been added to the ...
Sir William Hamilton, 1872
8
The Metaphysics of Sir W. H., Collected, Arranged, and ...
that, and the other body gravitate (that is, some bodies gravitate) ; the consequent educed from that antecedent, says, -- all bodies gravitate. The antecedent is limited,— the consequent unlimited. Something, therefore, has been added to the  ...
Sir William Hamilton, Francis BOWEN (Alford Professor of Moral Philosophy in Harvard College.), 1870
9
The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the End ...
Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, John Eames, John Martyn. " stat, quam ut quæratur quantam velocitatem acquirere posiitguttu- " la animata ab ilia gravitate majori quando cadit per lineolam fuse " altitudini æqualem, ...
Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, 1734
10
The Nature of Explanation
He might have supposed that there is a correct explanation of q satisfying certain theological instructions, e.g., (Bodies gravitate because God ordained it; explaining why bodies gravitate), or (Bodies gravitate because God ordained it for the ...
Peter Achinstein, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRAVITATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gravitate is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Auburn's Jeremy Johnson adjusting to attention, expectations
It won't be the last time this season that cameras gravitate toward the Auburn quarterback. Johnson takes over an Auburn squad that has the ... «Jackson Clarion Ledger, Jul 15»
2
Guillermo del Toro on Strong Women, 'Punk' Gothic Novels and …
I've always loved writing strong female characters. In Devil's Backbone, there's some really powerful female characters. I find that I just gravitate ... «TIME, Jul 15»
3
The Sal Alosi You Don't Know
He's someone you gravitate toward." Adam Kramer is the College Football National Lead Writer for Bleacher Report. Unless noted, all quotes ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
4
To up your value, be a master of time
... an education and consulting firm devoted to clarifying the murky world of human emotion for people who gravitate toward concrete thinking. «Computerworld, Jul 15»
5
Do gay people come out to pollsters before their families? It appears …
... that people who are LGBT move to states where it's more accepted and the fact that LGBT people might gravitate toward more liberal states. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
6
Greece and China Battle for Most Dangerous ETF
That's why most long-term investors gravitate toward broader, more diverse funds for overseas exposure, such as the Schwab Emerging ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
7
'Part of the job now': How Jason Kipnis became the leader of the …
Moss told Kipnis: "Well, [the leader] is you. Guys will gravitate toward you by the way you play the game. Guys respect that and will listen to that. «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
8
What Scott Walker Would Tell Donald Trump On a Debate Stage
Well I think in the end what what most good for in a gravitate towards bold leadership and so. While he might have some appeal because he's ... «ABC News, Jul 15»
9
Making a Difference: Local DJ pays it forward for kids
“I gravitate toward any charity that has anything to do with kids.” Bikes or Bust last only four days but takes an entire year to coordinate. «The Northwest Florida Daily News, Jul 15»
10
Natural Makeup Pioneer Jane Iredale: Don't Try to Fit Yourself into a …
Now I gravitate to things that make my skin look healthy. I regret wearing sharply pointed shoes in my 20s. They gave me a bunion. «Yahoo News, Jul 15»

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