different between blate vs ablate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ble?t/

Etymology 1

From Scots blate (“timid, sheepish”), apparently a conflation of Northern *Middle English blate, *blait (“pale, ghastly, terrified”), from Old English bl?t (“pale, livid, ghastly”), from Proto-West Germanic *blait (“pale, discoloured”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leyd- (“pale, pallid”) and Middle English bleth, bleath (“timid, soft”), from Old English bl?aþ (“gentle, shy, cowardly, timid; slothful, inactive, effeminate”), from Proto-Germanic *blauþuz (“weak, timid, void, naked”). Cognate with German blassen (“to make pale”), bleich (“pale, pallid”). More at bleak, bleach.

Adjective

blate (comparative blater, superlative blatest)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Bashful, sheepish.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 491:

     You'd say Not them; fine legs, and Ma struggling into her blouse would say You're no blate. Who told you they're fine?

2. (Scotland, Northern England) Dull, stupid.

Etymology 2

Verb

blate (third-person singular simple present blates, present participle blating, simple past and past participle blated)

1. Archaic form of bleat.

Anagrams

• ablet, bleat, table

Dutch

Verb

blate

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blaten

Anagrams

• tabel

Scots

Etymology

Origin uncertain; perhaps from Old English bl?t (“pale”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [blet], [blit]

Adjective

blate (comparative blater, superlative blatest)

1. shy, modest, timid, sheepish
2. stupid, easily deceived, dull, unpromising

English

Etymology

Derived from Middle English ablat (“taken away”), from Latin ablatum, past participle of auferre (“to remove”); ab- (“away”) +? ferre (“to carry”). First attested in the 1500s, it became obsolete by the early 1600s. Returned into use as a back-formation from ablation.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??ble?t/

Verb

ablate (third-person singular simple present ablates, present participle ablating, simple past and past participle ablated)

1. (transitive) To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization. [Late 15^th century.]
2. (intransitive) To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature. [Mid 20^th century.]

Derived terms

• ablator

Related terms

• ablation
• ablative

References

Anagrams

• Labate, tabela, tablea

French

Verb

ablate

1. first-person singular present indicative of ablater
2. third-person singular present indicative of ablater
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ablater
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ablater
5. second-person singular imperative of ablater

Anagrams

• établa

Latin

Participle

abl?te

1. vocative masculine singular of abl?tus