RETICULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reticulate mean? 

• RETICULATE (adjective)
  The adjective RETICULATE has 1 sense:

1. resembling or forming a network

  Familiarity information: RETICULATE used as an adjective is very rare.

• RETICULATE (verb)
  The verb RETICULATE has 3 senses:

1. form a net or a network

2. distribute by a network, as of water or electricity

3. divide so as to form a network

  Familiarity information: RETICULATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETICULATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling or forming a network

Synonyms:

reticular; reticulate

Context example:

a reticulated highway system

Similar:

cancellate; cancellated; clathrate (having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows)

crisscross; crisscrossed (marked with crossing lines)

fretted; interlaced; latticed; latticelike (having a pattern of fretwork or latticework)

interconnected; interrelated (reciprocally connected)

lacy; netlike; netted; webbed; webby; weblike (having open interstices or resembling a web)

meshed (resembling a network)

networklike (having a network of veins or ribs)

Antonym:

nonreticulate (not resembling or forming a network)

• RETICULATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reticulate    ... he / she / it reticulates   
Past simple: reticulated   
Past participle: reticulated   
-ing form: reticulating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form a net or a network

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "reticulate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

reticulation (an arrangement resembling a net or network)

reticulum (any fine network (especially one in the body composed of cells or blood vessels))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Distribute by a network, as of water or electricity

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "reticulate" is one way to...):

distribute (make available)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reticulum (any fine network (especially one in the body composed of cells or blood vessels))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Divide so as to form a network

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "reticulate" is one way to...):

form (assume a form or shape)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

reticulation ((photography) the formation of a network of cracks or wrinkles in a photographic emulsion)

reticulum (any fine network (especially one in the body composed of cells or blood vessels))

 Context examples 

A rare genetic disorder characterized by nail dystrophy, reticulated skin pigmentation especially on the neck and chest, and oral leukoplakia.

(Dyskeratosis Congenita, NCI Thesaurus)

This species cannot be grown on an artificial medium, lacks peptidoglycan within the cell wall, forms elementary and reticulate bodies and can be identified using monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to epitopes in the VS 4 region of MOMP along with DNA sequencing.

(Chlamydia trachomatis, NCI Thesaurus)