Ablative is an English word with synonyms like oblique or subtractive. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ablative in a sentence
Ablative meaning
- 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.
- Pertaining to taking away or removing.
- Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
Synonyms of Ablative
Using Ablative
- The main meaning on this page is: 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. | Pertaining to taking away or removing. | Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
- Useful related words include: oblique, oblique case, subtractive, ablative case.
- In the example corpus, ablative often appears in combinations such as: the ablative, ablative heat, ablative and.
Context around Ablative
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 13 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ablative
- In this selection, "ablative" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, allative, directional, dative, heat, case and form stand out and add context to how "ablative" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ablative ablative heat and ablative ablative heat shield. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ablative" sits close to words such as abadi, acidification and acker, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ablative
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
E.g. (ablative) in casā, "in the cottage"; (accusative) in casam, "into the cottage". (14 words)
Usually, to show the ablative of accompaniment, cum would be added to the ablative form. (15 words)
Modern designers prefer to avoid this added mass by using ablative and thermal-soak TPS instead. (16 words)
Prepositions can take two cases for their object: the accusative ("apud puerum" (with the boy), with "puerum" being the accusative form of "puer", boy) and the ablative ("sine puero" (without the boy), "puero" being the ablative form of "puer", boy). (40 words)
In morphology the Italic languages preserve six cases in the noun and adjective (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, vocative) with traces of a seventh (locative), but the dual of both the noun and verb has completely disappeared. (37 words)
Ablative Ablative heat shield (after use) on Apollo 12 capsule The ablative heat shield functions by lifting the hot shock layer gas away from the heat shield's outer wall (creating a cooler boundary layer ). (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Ablative Ablative heat shield (after use) on Apollo 12 capsule The ablative heat shield functions by lifting the hot shock layer gas away from the heat shield's outer wall (creating a cooler boundary layer ).
Basque In Basque there are two classes, animate and inanimate; however, the only difference is in the declension of locative cases (inessive, locative genitive, allative, terminal allative, ablative and directional ablative).
In Latin, the agent of a passive sentence (if indicated) is expressed using a noun in the ablative case, in this case servō (the ablative of servus).
Prepositions can take two cases for their object: the accusative ("apud puerum" (with the boy), with "puerum" being the accusative form of "puer", boy) and the ablative ("sine puero" (without the boy), "puero" being the ablative form of "puer", boy).
Usually, to show the ablative of accompaniment, cum would be added to the ablative form.
The new Waterlase fractional handpiece is FDA cleared and can deliver both ablative and nonablative fractional treatments and provide the user with control over the penetration depth with different parameters and treatment techniques.
Pardo said that Ablative Solutions’ technology is differentiated in the market by its ability to target nerves at a shallower depth than competitors leading to a minimally invasive and short administration with potentially greater efficacy.
Czech has both instrumental and vocative cases, but lacks an ablative, which was largely replaced by either the genitive or instrumental case.
E.g. (ablative) in casā, "in the cottage"; (accusative) in casam, "into the cottage".
In morphology the Italic languages preserve six cases in the noun and adjective (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, vocative) with traces of a seventh (locative), but the dual of both the noun and verb has completely disappeared.
In space, a lightcraft would need to provide this gas itself from onboard tanks or from an ablative solid.
In the US and other Western countries, the number of operations has further declined over the past 30 years, a period during which there have been no major advances in ablative psychosurgery.
It is a good choice for ablative applications such as high-peak-heating conditions found on sample-return missions or lunar-return missions.
Latin has an nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, vocative, and ablative, and a locative in certain nouns, but lacks a prepositional and instrumental case.
Medieval codices are constructed in "gathers" which are folded (compare "folio", "leaf, page" ablative case of Latin folium), then stacked together like a newspaper and sewn together at the fold.
Modern designers prefer to avoid this added mass by using ablative and thermal-soak TPS instead.
Multiple approaches for the thermal protection of spacecraft are in use, among them ablative heat shields, passive cooling and active cooling of spacecraft surfaces.
Note the lack of the ablative or instrumental case in Irish, but still containing the vocative case.
Subsequent advances in nuclear weapon and ablative TPS design allowed RVs to become significantly smaller with a further reduced bluntness ratio compared to the Mk-6.
The circumflex accent represented metrical length (generally not distinctively pronounced in the New Latin period) and was chiefly found over an a representing an ablative singular case, e.g. eâdem formâ "with the same shape".
Common combinations with ablative
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the ablative 10×
- ablative heat 4×
- ablative and 4×
- an ablative 4×
- ablative form 3×
- in ablative 3×
- and ablative 3×
- ablative ablative 2×
- ablative case 2×
- ablative of 2×