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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VERMICULATE

From Latin vermiculātus in the form of worms, from vermis worm.
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PRONUNCIATION OF VERMICULATE

vermiculate  [vɜːˈmɪkjʊˌleɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VERMICULATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Vermiculate is a verb and can also act as an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb vermiculate in English.

WHAT DOES VERMICULATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of vermiculate in the English dictionary

The first definition of vermiculate in the dictionary is to decorate with wavy or wormlike tracery or markings. Other definition of vermiculate is vermicular; sinuous. Vermiculate is also worm-eaten or appearing as if worm-eaten.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO VERMICULATE

PRESENT

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

FUTURE

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

CONDITIONAL

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

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you vermiculate
we let´s vermiculate
you vermiculate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to vermiculate
Past participle
vermiculated
Present Participle
vermiculating
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 VERMICULATE


accumulate
əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt
calculate
ˈkælkjʊˌleɪt
circulate
ˈsɜːkjʊˌleɪt
coagulate
kəʊˈæɡjʊˌleɪt
congratulate
kənˈɡrætjʊˌleɪt
cumulate
ˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt
ejaculate
ɪˈdʒækjʊˌleɪt
emulate
ˈɛmjʊˌleɪt
formulate
ˈfɔːmjʊˌleɪt
insulate
ˈɪnsjʊˌleɪt
manipulate
məˈnɪpjʊˌleɪt
modulate
ˈmɒdjʊˌleɪt
populate
ˈpɒpjʊˌleɪt
postulate
ˈpɒstjʊˌleɪt
reformulate
riːˈfɔːmjʊˌleɪt
regulate
ˈrɛɡjʊˌleɪt
simulate
ˈsɪmjʊˌleɪt
speculate
ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪt
stimulate
ˈstɪmjʊˌleɪt
stipulate
ˈstɪpjʊˌleɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VERMICULATE

vermian
vermicelli
vermicidal
vermicide
vermicular
vermicularly
vermiculation
vermicule
vermiculite
vermiculous
vermiculture
vermiform
vermiform appendix
vermiform process
vermifugal
vermifuge
vermilion
vermilled
vermilling
vermillion

WORDS THAT END LIKE VERMICULATE

absquatulate
articulate
chocolate
consulate
copulate
demodulate
depopulate
deregulate
emasculate
geniculate
immaculate
matriculate
ovulate
particulate
recalculate
recirculate
repopulate
reticulate
triangulate
undulate
ungulate

Synonyms and antonyms of vermiculate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «vermiculate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VERMICULATE

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

Translator English - Chinese

蛭石
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

vermiculate
570 millions of speakers

English

vermiculate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

vermiculate
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

vermiculate
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

vermiculate
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vermiculate
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

vermiculate
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vermiculate
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Vermiculate
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vermiculate
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

虫食い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

vermiculate
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Vermiculate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vermiculate
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

vermiculate
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वर्मीक्युट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

vermikülat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vermiculate
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

vermiculate
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

vermiculate
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vermiculate
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

βερμικουλίτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vermiculate
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vermiculate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Vask utslipps
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vermiculate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VERMICULATE»

The term «vermiculate» is used very little and occupies the 152.226 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VERMICULATE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VERMICULATE»

Discover the use of vermiculate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to vermiculate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Fabrician Types of Insects in the Hunterian Collection ...
The sides or pleura (proepisterna and proepimera) are broadly triangular and bright metallic green; the surface is vermiculate with confluent puncturation, and the proepimera are set with short yellowish hairs. The narrow mesepimera and ...
Robert Arnot Staig, 1940
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The Fabrician Types of Insects in the Hunterian Collection ...
The sides or pleura (proepisterna and proepimera) are broadly triangular and bright metallic green; the surface is vermiculate with confluent puncturation, and the proepimera are set with short yellowish hairs. The narrow mesepimera and ...
Robert A. Staig, 2013
3
Clay-Containing Polymer Nanocomposites: From Fundamentals to ...
... 6–MMT Commercially available Thermoplastic polyolefins–MMT Commercially available Polypropylene–MMT Commercially available Polyethylene–MMT Under development Acetal–MMT Commercially available Butyl rubber– vermiculate ...
Suprakas Sinha Ray, 2013
4
Oxford Dictionary of English
from medieval Latin vermicularis, from Latin vermiculus, diminutive of vermis ' worm'. vermiculate /Vo'mijolot/ D adjective 1 another term for VERMIcULAR. 2 another term for VERMIcULATED. — ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin vermiculatus ...
Angus Stevenson, 2010
5
Early Christian Art and Architecture
The desire to produce more elaborate scenes, with an effect like that of painting, led to the evolution of the style known as 'vermiculate' — that is to say, resembling the tracks of worms in being curved and irregular. In this type of mosaic the ...
Robert Leslie Pollington Milburn, 1988
6
The Scriptorium and Library at Monte Cassino, 1058-1105
6'1 He also saw that the vermiculate design on the blue ground ("the peculiar mosaic pattern") was adapted from the frame of the Emperor portrait.6' One might add that further models for the marbling, stippling, and vermiculate designs are to  ...
Francis Newton, 1999
7
Catalog of Fossil Spores and Pollen (Volume 5)
The spore coat is vermiculate (spore coat inlaid somewhat like Worm tracks) to reticulate. The vermiculate indentation extends from 2.5 microns to 3.2 microns into the spore coat. The trilete rays are usually not sharply defined due to the ...
Kremp G. O. W., Ames H. T.
8
Money and Health: A Study of American Social Values
In 2001, there were allegations that both the W.R. Grace Co. and the EPA had contributed to widespread lung diseases and lung abnormalities of the residents of Libby, Montana. Since the 1960s, vermiculate had been mined in that town.
Harvey Goodman, 2005
9
Morphology and Evolution of Turtles
Images at same magnification; scale bar = 1 cm opisthocoelous; last cervical opisthocoelous; prominent pitted or vermiculate shell sculpture (Hirayama 2000, 2005). Kappachelys gen. nov. Type species: Kappachelys okurai sp. nov.
Donald B. Brinkman, Patricia A. Holroyd, James D. Gardner, 2012
10
Geological Survey Professional Paper
The coenenchyme shows much variation — from coarsely porous and distally striate to dense echino-vermiculate lower down around subimmersed corallites. In the stoutly branched specimens from deep water, coenenchyme openly ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VERMICULATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term vermiculate is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Energy Efficiency Case Study: Bath, Maine
... encapsulating the attic's existing vermiculate insulation, and encapsulating the basement to eliminate moisture problems and dramatically reduce heat loss. «PenBayPilot.com, Jul 15»
2
School district hosts Science Fair, Invention Convention
The blanket is filled with iron powder, charcoal, salt and vermiculate. When the mixture is exposed to air, it heats up. "It's called an exothermic reaction," Melesko ... «Hartford Courant, Apr 15»
3
Have attic reinspected for suspected asbestos
All of the contaminated vermiculate came from Libby, Mont., and those mines were shut down around 1990. The material was marketed under the brand name of ... «Albuquerque Journal, Dec 14»
4
Mining The Earth: Taking Back Our Water
Although W.R. Grace & Co. owned the local vermiculate mine from 1963 to 1990, they're complaining about the EPA. *SD. The old Gilt Edge gold and silver ... «Mintpress News, Dec 14»
5
EPA: Asbestos Cleanup Reducing Health Risks in Libby
... a town stricken with an unprecedented asbestos contamination stemming from a nearby W.R. Grace & Co. vermiculate mine that operated from 1963 to 1990. «Flathead Beacon, Dec 14»
6
Traveling Namibia's Skeleton Coast
The wind had shaped the sand into tens of thousands of vermiculate ridges, the declinations between them dusted with sparkling pink dust. That dust is actually ... «Condé Nast Traveler, Nov 14»
7
EPA: Complex Libby Asbestos Assessment Takes Time
For years, asbestos-laden vermiculate was mined near Libby by the Maryland-based W.R. Grace & Company. The mine closed in 1990, but the effects of the ... «Flathead Beacon, Nov 14»
8
Fish Need Trees, Too
And I'll be thinking about the narrator in Cormac McCarthy's novel “The Road,” observing fish in a stream: “On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were ... «New York Times, May 14»
9
National Asbestos Awareness Week kicks off for 2014
... claims against the company in March 2003 for past and future cleanup efforts at locations contaminated by vermiculate, asbestos and other toxic substances. «Legal News Line, Apr 14»
10
Big Scary: Not Art
... undercurrents of personal history and psychological fixation that make the best indie acts so vermiculate in their sinewy bond of voice, lyrics, and instrument. «PopMatters, Mar 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Vermiculate [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/vermiculate>. Apr 2024 ».
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