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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Homophone: bait

Etymology 1

Aphetic form of abate

Verb

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

1. (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.

   • Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine.

2. (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
3. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
   • c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue:

     He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.

4. (archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2, scene 1:

     (Sebastian) "Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido."

   • c. 1609 The Maid's Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, act 1, scene 1:

     Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood, / He lies that says it.

5. To waste away.
   • 1597, The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, by Shakespeare, act 3, scene 3:

     (Falstaff) "Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle?"

6. To deprive of.
   • 1633 (first published) George Herbert, The Church Porch

     When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake.

7. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.

   • when the landholder's rent falls, he must either bate the labourer's wages , or not employ, or not pay him

8. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.

   • to whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament

Translations

References

• 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.

Etymology 2

• Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate.
• Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Late Latin batere.

Noun

bate (uncountable)

1. Strife; contention.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2:

     ... and wears his boots very smooth, like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no bate with telling of discreet stories;

   • 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (Arabian Nights)

     So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing; […]

   • 1911, H.G. Wells, The New Machiavelli:

     The other merely needs jealousy and bate, of which there are great and easily accessible reservoirs in every human heart.

Translations

Verb

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

1. (intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
2. (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
   • 1600, Francis Bacon, letter to Queen Elizabeth, upon the sending of a new-year's gift

     I am like a hawk , that bates , when I see occasion of service , but cannot fly because I am tied to another's fist

Translations

See also

• (to contend or strive with blows or arguments): bait.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”).

Noun

bate (plural bates)

1. An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
   • 1888, Popular Science (volume 34, number 10, page 287)

     The process of unliming hides and skins in tanning has been a slow and disgusting one, consisting in soaking the skins in a bath of manure in water, called bate.

2. A vat which contains this liquid.

Translations

Verb

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

1. (transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.

Translations

References

• 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.

Etymology 4

Formed by analogy with eat ? ate or other Class 5 strong verbs (compare gave, obsolete spake, etc.), with which it shares an analogous past participle (eaten ? beaten).

Verb

bate

1. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense of beat; = beat.

   • Fitzpatrick, now perceiving […] that he had made a very unfortunate mistake, began to ask many pardons of the lady; and then, turning to Jones, he said, “I would have you take notice I do not ask your pardon, for you have bate me; for which I am resolved to have your blood in the morning.”

   • 2008 October 20th, Lee Aronsohn, David Goetsch, Steven Molaro, and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory (Chuck Lorre Productions, Warner Bros. Television; CBS), season 2, episode 5: “The Euclid Alternative”

     Leonard:?Penny’s taking you to the DMV; I’m going to bed.
     Sheldon:?Why Penny?
     Leonard:?Because rock bate scissors. Goodnight.

Translations

Etymology 5

Shortening of masturbate.

Verb

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

1. (intransitive, slang) To masturbate.

Translations

Anagrams

• Beta, Teba, abet, beat, beta

Asturian

Noun

bate m (plural bates)

1. bat (club)

Crow

Alternative forms

• boté / baté / badé

Noun

bate

1. male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman

See also

• two-spirit
• bacheé, bía

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bate

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of baten

Noun

bate

1. (archaic) Dative singular form of baat

Anagrams

• beat

Garo

Etymology

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Alternative forms

• bati

Postposition

bate

1. (follows dative case -na) more than

Khumi Chin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?.te?/

Noun

bate

1. swelling

Derived terms

• bakungte

References

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[1], Payap University, page 74

Kitanemuk

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa. Cognate with Serrano bate.

Noun

b?te

1. water

References

• Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81

Latin

Noun

bate

1. vocative singular of batus

Lindu

Noun

bate

1. gravestone

Middle English

Noun

bate

1. Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

Portuguese

Verb

bate

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of bater
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of bater

Romanian

Etymology

From Late Latin battere, variant of Latin battuere, present active infinitive of battu? (“beat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba.te/

Verb

a bate (third-person singular present bate, past participle b?tut) 3rd conj.

1. to beat
2. to defeat
3. to strike, hit, punch

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (defeat): învinge, înfrânge
• (beat): cafti (slang), mardi (slang), cotonogi (slang)
• (hit): lovi

Derived terms

• batere
• b?tut
• b?t?tor
• b?t?tur?

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

bate

1. vocative singular of bat

Serrano

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

Noun

b?te

1. water

References

• Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bate/, [?ba.t?e]

Etymology 1

From English bat.

Noun

bate m (plural bates)

1. (sports) bat

Etymology 2

Noun

bate m (plural bates)

1. (Honduras, slang) reefer, joint (a marijuana cigarette)

   Synonyms: canuto, (Honduras) carruco, (Honduras) leño, porro, (Chile) pito

Etymology 3

Verb

bate

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of batir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of batir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of batir.

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French batre, from Late Latin batt?, battere, alternative form of Latin battu?, battuere (“beat, pound; fight”).

Verb

bate

1. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fight

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Noun

kate (plural kates)

1. (Britain, dialect, Kent) The brambling finch, Fringilla montifringilla.

Anagrams

• keta, take, teak

Basque

Etymology

From older katea, with the final -a reinterpreted as being the definite article, from Proto-Basque *katena, from Latin cat?na.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ka.te/

Noun

kate inan

1. chain (series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal)

Declension

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kat?]

Noun

kate

1. vocative singular of kat

Anagrams

• teka

Finnish

Etymology

From kattaa +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?te?/, [?k?t?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -?te
• Syllabification: ka?te

Noun

kate

1. covering, roofing
2. (finance) funds (of a check), backing (of a banknote)
3. (finance) contribution margin, coverage, margin
4. (figuratively) reliability, trustworthiness (e.g. of a promise)
5. place setting

Declension

Synonyms

• (covering, roofing): peite
• (place setting): kattamus

Derived terms

• adjectives: katteeton

Compounds

Anagrams

• ekat, keat, teak

Ingrian

Noun

kate

1. cover

Karelian

Noun

kate

1. cover

Lithuanian

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): [k??t??]

Noun

katè f

1. instrumental singular of kat?

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): [?ka?t??]

Noun

kãte f

1. vocative singular of kat?

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

kate

1. locative singular masculine/neuter of kata, which is past participle of karoti (“to do”)
2. accusative plural masculine of kata, which is past participle of karoti (“to do”)
3. vocative singular feminine of kata, which is past participle of karoti (“to do”)

Volapük

Noun

kate

1. dative singular of kat