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PRONUNCIATION OF NICTATE

nictate  [ˈnɪkteɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NICTATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nictate 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 nictate in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO NICTATE

PRESENT

Present
I nictate
you nictate
he/she/it nictates
we nictate
you nictate
they nictate
Present continuous
I am nictating
you are nictating
he/she/it is nictating
we are nictating
you are nictating
they are nictating
Present perfect
I have nictated
you have nictated
he/she/it has nictated
we have nictated
you have nictated
they have nictated
Present perfect continuous
I have been nictating
you have been nictating
he/she/it has been nictating
we have been nictating
you have been nictating
they have been nictating
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 nictated
you nictated
he/she/it nictated
we nictated
you nictated
they nictated
Past continuous
I was nictating
you were nictating
he/she/it was nictating
we were nictating
you were nictating
they were nictating
Past perfect
I had nictated
you had nictated
he/she/it had nictated
we had nictated
you had nictated
they had nictated
Past perfect continuous
I had been nictating
you had been nictating
he/she/it had been nictating
we had been nictating
you had been nictating
they had been nictating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

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

CONDITIONAL

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

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you nictate
we let´s nictate
you nictate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to nictate
Past participle
nictated
Present Participle
nictating
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 NICTATE


acetate
ˈæsɪˌteɪt
coarctate
kəʊˈɑːkteɪt
delectate
dɪˈlekteɪt
eructate
ɪˈrʌkteɪt
estate
ɪˈsteɪt
facilitate
fəˈsɪlɪˌteɪt
hesitate
ˈhɛzɪˌteɪt
humectate
hjuːˈmɛkteɪt
interstate
ˈɪntəˌsteɪt
lactate
ˈlækteɪt
out-of-state
ˈaʊtəvˌsteɪt
pectate
ˈpɛkteɪt
pernoctate
pɜːˈnɒkteɪt
prostate
ˈprɒsteɪt
punctate
ˈpʌŋkteɪt
rotate
rəʊˈteɪt
state
steɪt
Tate
teɪt
tractate
ˈtrækteɪt
upstate
ˈʌpˈsteɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NICTATE

nicompoop
Nicosia
nicotian
nicotiana
nicotinamide
nicotine
nicotine patch
nicotine poisoning
nicotine-stained
nicotined
nicotinic
nicotinic acid
nicotinism
nicrosilal
nictation
Nictheroy
nictitant
nictitate
nictitating membrane
nictitation

WORDS THAT END LIKE NICTATE

calcium lactate
chief of state
city-state
constate
Empire State
Free State
Golden State
home State
imitate
industrial estate
lie in state
real estate
redictate
reluctate
secretary of state
solid-state
spectate
steady state
tri-state
Under-Secretary of State

Synonyms and antonyms of nictate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nictate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NICTATE

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

Translator English - Chinese

贬眼睛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nictate
570 millions of speakers

English

nictate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पलक मारना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

nictate
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

nictate
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nictate
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চক্ষু টেপা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nictate
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nictate
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nictate
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

nictate
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

nictate
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nictate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nháy mắt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nictate
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निष्कर्ष काढणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nictate
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ammiccare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nictate
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

nictate
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nictate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nictate
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

flikkeren
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nictate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nictate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nictate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NICTATE»

The term «nictate» is used very little and occupies the 172.697 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NICTATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «nictate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «nictate» 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 nictate

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NICTATE»

Discover the use of nictate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nictate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Entomopathogenic Nematology
10.4.2. that nictate (a behaviour explained in detail below) are classified as ambushers, species that do not nictate are classified as cruisers, and species that lift part of their bodies from the substrate, but do not do so for periods of more than a ...
Randy Gaugler, 2002
2
The Amazing Illustrated Word Game Memory Books: Twenty-One ...
Mn - 1 Ü "A 1 JLEdM 1 — Person under medical care NICTATE - wink I AINTED — Spoiled, contaminated 1 ti I AJN1C — Cause of sustained muscular contraction His NICTATE oyk} f tared ^nose u^re Becaose the dryg gave to the) РАПИТ (for ...
Frank H. Gaertner, 2010
3
Nematology: Advances and Perspectives
Typical ambusher species nictate > 70% of their foraging time, whereas species with intermediate foraging strategies nictate less frequently and for shorter periods ( e. g. , S. riobrave) or cannot nictate ( e. g. , S. feltiae) . Cruisers, on the other ...
Z. X. Chen, S. Y. Chen, Donald Ward Dickson, 2004
4
The Galaxy
The Jarocho's wife, kneeling before the nictate', its higher end close up to her apron, takes the roller in both hands. She has previously plunged her right one into the olla, and flung a quantity ^of the boiled corn upon the nictate. This she ...
‎1868
5
Concise English Dictionary
nictate nik'tdt, v.i. to wink — also nictitate. — ns. nictation, nictitation, nictitating membrane the third eyelid, developed in birds, etc., a thin movable membrane that passes over the eye. [L. nictdre, -alum and its L.L. freq. nictitdre, -alum, lo wink.] ...
G. (Ed ). Davidson, 2007
6
Nematodes as Biocontrol Agents
Ambushing nematodes nictate during foraging by raising nearly all of their bodies off the substrate (Fig. 2.2) (Campbell and Gaugler, 1993). Of the commercially available EPN species, S. carpo- capsae and S. scapterisci are the most extreme  ...
Parwinder S. Grewal, Ralf-Udo Ehlers, David I. Shapiro-Ilan, 2005
7
Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
44 1 105 - - " »6 Qi 3» 5 8J 91- 88 - - 88 - - 64 15 - 88 - - 59 15 - 45 14' - 9 9 5 - 5 - _ _ 2 per chaldron coal nictate. r 5 - - I and 31. per day when em- / ployed as tidewaiter ; and \ -it. tid, per day when em . 1 ployed as boatman, and 1 <L I per ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1821
8
Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nematode Survival
In some species, nictation is accompanied by negative geotaxis, where the dauer climbs up physical features in order to nictate. Although data in the literature are sparse, species for which there are anecdotal descriptions of phoretic or ...
Roland N. Perry, David A. Wharton, 2011
9
Nematodes and the Biological Control of Insect Pests
determined that although we had selected for highly mobile hunter nematodes, when placed on natural substrates, our new strains did not differ from the sedentary wildtype strain in tending to perch on soil particles and nictate ( Gaugler et al.
RA Bedding, RJ Akhurst, HK Kaya, 1993
10
Defensive Mutualism in Microbial Symbiosis
Ambush foragers (e.g., Steinernema carpocapsae, S. scapterisci) tend to nictate, standing stationary on their tail in a straight position elevating the anterior 95% of the body from the substrate (Campbell and Gaugler, 1993). Nictation enables ...
James F. White Jr., Monica S. Torres, 2009

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NICTATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nictate is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Worms build waving towers to get out more
These towers protrude from the surface on which the worms sit, and the worms wiggle so as to make the whole tower wave or 'nictate'. «Chemistry World, Mar 14»
2
Jasonville man accused of giving liquor store cashier a wink instead …
P.S. johnpaulcoleman, Great use of the word nictate. Have you been saving that one? LOL. -- Posted by lintonite on Fri, Aug 30, 2013, at 10:20 ... «Greene County Daily World, Aug 13»
3
How to Be an L.A. Cinephile
... making the effort to showcase art-house and classic films," explains the 40-something Ellison, who's well known in online circles as @nictate. «LA Weekly, Feb 13»
4
Director Kenneth Lonergan Emerges to Tell Us He's on Team …
The Twitter movement is a reminder of just how much people like to root for the underdog: @Nictate wrote “Reading through the host of ... «TIME, Dec 11»
5
Meek's Cutoff: Mind and Matter
This morning, the pseudonymous nictate, whom I follow on Twitter, tweeted a quote from Reichardt, about her directorial strategy regarding the ... «New Yorker, Apr 11»

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