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▪ I. formate, n. Chem.|ˈfɔːmət|
Also less analogically formiate.
[f. formic) + -ate.]
A salt of formic acid.
1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 316 Formic acid may be obtained from formate of lead. Ibid. 521 Salts..Formiates. 1825Hamilton Handbk. Terms, Formates. 1853W. Gregory Inorg. Chem. (ed. 3) 153 A formiate. 1876Harley Mat. Med. 105 Formiate of potash.
▪ II. † ˈformate, v.1 Obs.
[f. L. formāt- ppl. stem of formāre to form.]
1. trans. To form, mould.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 50/1 Intermixe it with whyte waxe, and formate therof little Candles.
2. ? To state in a precise form; to formulate.
1656–7Burton's Diary (1828) I. 361 Unless you will have me to say nothing, but what you shall formate to me.
▪ III. formate, v.2 Aeronaut.|fɔːˈmeɪt|
[Back-formation from formation 4 b.]
intr. Of an aircraft or its pilot: to take up formation with, to fly in formation. Also const. on. Also (rare) of a boat: to proceed in formation.
1929Times 6 Mar. 5/6 He saw Mr. Sealy-Allin 15 minutes before the collision and attempted to formate with him. 1933Aeroplane 19 Apr. 690/1 The Avros formated by themselves. 1934T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 805 We are all up to the teeth in 5 more target boats. Three or four are [to] formate from here to Bridlington. 1934V. M. Yeates Winged Victory xiii. 106 He kept getting in everybody's way. If there was one thing a pilot ought to do properly, it was to formate. 1935Flight 23 May 549/1 It is possible to recollect a number of occasions when, as passenger in a big machine, one has been ‘formated’ on by odd and sometimes gay pilots. 1942We speak from Air xvi. 51 The other Beauforts formated on me until we separated near the target. |