curate
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin cūrātus (“one who has been curated, a curate”), a substantivation of the perfect passive participle of cūrō. Doublet of curato and curé. Equivalent to cure + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Definitions
An assistant rector or vicar.
A parish priest.
An assistant barman.
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To act as a curator for.
- She curated the traveling exhibition.
- They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
- What I love about DVRs is that they really allow you to curate your experience of television.
- During the past five years I had the good fortune to be editor of Poetry Northwest. The magazine's mission includes curating a dialogue between poetry, the other arts, and civic life.
- To grasp how this all works, think of the concepts of editing and curating, adopted from publishing and art but now used constantly in the fashion world to imply judgment, taste and discernment.
To work or act as a curator.
- Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.
An oxyanion of curium
An oxyanion of curium; any salt containing such an anion.
The neighborhood
- neighborsinecure
Derived
curacy, curateless, curate's egg, curateship, curatic, curatolatry, perpetual curate, cocurate, curatable, curated
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for curate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA