Ansate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ansate is an adjective meaning That has a handle or a part that resembles a handle.
Meaning
That has a handle or a part that resembles a handle.
Example Sentences
The decoration of this feature is singular for it displays in relief an ansate, oval dish complete with offerings.
Only two British tablets are ansate: these are Caerleon (Text-fig. 5), which (to quote the editors) “has two nail-holes for attachment”, and Bath 15, which was nonetheless folded up and deposited in the hot spring.
1990, John Irwin Jones, Chapter 15: Comparative Development of Somatic Sensory Cortex, Edward G. Jones, Alan Peters (editors), Cerebral Cortex, Volume 8B: Comparative Structure and Evolution of Cerebral Cortex, Part 2, page 407, In cats, the ansate sulcus forms a posterior boundary for much of SI, and the coronal sulcus functions as a jugular sulcus demarcating forelimb and face projections.
Synonyms for ansate
Depending on context, synonyms include ansated.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include handled, ansated, haftable, handlable, handleable, wieldy.
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