Associations to the word «Ablative»

ABLATIVE, adjective. (grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

ABLATIVE, adjective. (obsolete) Pertaining to taking away or removing. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the early 18th century.]

ABLATIVE, adjective. (engineering) (nautical) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used for antifouling. [First attested in 1959.].

ABLATIVE, adjective. (medical) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]

ABLATIVE, adjective. (geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]

ABLATIVE, noun. (grammar) The ablative case. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

ABLATIVE, noun. An ablative material. [Mid 20th century.]

ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE, noun. (linguistics) A construction in Latin in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.

ABLATIVE ABSOLUTES, noun. Plural of ablative absolute

ABLATIVE CASE, noun. (grammar) A noun case used in some languages to indicate movement away from something, removal, separation. It corresponds roughly to the use in English of prepositions "of", "from", "away from", and "concerning".

ABLATIVE CASES, noun. Plural of ablative case

ABLATIVE, noun. The case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb.

ABLATIVE, adjective. Relating to the ablative case.

ABLATIVE, adjective. Tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature; "ablative material on a rocket cone".