librate
/ˈlaɪbɹeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A piece of land having a value of one pound per year.
Example Sentences
- "Their parts all librate on too nice a beam."
- "The currently observed orbital resonances at the 2:1 mean motion commensurabilities involving Io-Europa and Europa-Ganymede are such that the resonance variables #92;theta#95;1#61;#92;lambda#95;1-2#92;lambda#95;2#43;#92;omega#95;1 and #92;theta#95;3#61;#92;lambda#95;2-2#92;lambda#95;3#43;#92;omega#95;2 librate about 0° and #92;theta#95;2#61;#92;lambda#95;1-2#92;lambda#95;2#43;#92;omega#95;2 librates about 180°, all with small amplitude."
- "But she winds about him coil after coil of her glittering rhetoric, in which reason holds its own as it librates with specious feeling."
- "Her playful Sea-horse […] His watery way with waving volutes wins, / Or listening librates on unmoving fins."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: lībrāta, lībra