different between deluge vs sate

English

Etymology

From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin d?luvium, from d?lu? (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?l.ju?d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?l.ju(d)?/, /d??lu(d)?/

Noun

deluge (plural deluges)

1. A great flood or rain.

   The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.

2. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.

   The rock concert was a deluge of sound.

   • 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal

     The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.

3. (military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
   • 2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A

     In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.

Translations

Verb

deluge (third-person singular simple present deluges, present participle deluging, simple past and past participle deluged)

1. (transitive) To flood with water.
2. (transitive) To overwhelm.

Translations

References

• 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN

See also

• inundate

Middle English

Alternative forms

• diluge

Etymology

From Old French deluge, from Latin d?luvium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??liu?d?(?)/

Noun

deluge (Late Middle English)

1. A deluge; a massive flooding or raining.
2. (rare, figuratively) Any cataclysmic or catastrophic event.

Descendants

• English: deluge

References

• “d?l??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin d?luvium.

Noun

deluge m (oblique plural deluges, nominative singular deluges, nominative plural deluge)

1. large flood

Descendants

• French: déluge
• ? Middle English: deluge
  • English: deluge

English

Alternative forms

• sade (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

From earlier sade (“to weary, satiate, satisfy”), from Middle English saden (“to weary, satisfy, become wearied or satiated”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-Germanic *sad?n? (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognate with Middle Low German saden, Middle High German saten (“to saturate, satisfy, satiate”), Icelandic seðja (“to satisfy”). Cognate with sad.

Verb

sate (third-person singular simple present sates, present participle sating, simple past and past participle sated)

1. To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.

   Synonyms: satiate, fill up

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.

Usage notes

Used interchangeably with, though less common than, satiate.

Derived terms

• sated
• satedness
• sateless
• unsated
• unsating

Related terms

• satiate
• satisfactory
• saturate
• surfeit

Translations

References

Etymology 2

From Middle English sate, satte, from Old English sæt, first and third person singular preterite of sittan (“to sit”).

Verb

sate

1. (dated, poetic) simple past tense of sit

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sit.

Etymology 3

From Malay sate (“satay”).

Noun

sate

1. satay

Anagrams

• AEST, ESTA, East, SEAT, Seat, TEAs, east, eats, etas, seat, seta, tase, teas

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay sate (“satay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sate]
• Hyphenation: sa?té

Noun

sate (first-person possessive sateku, second-person possessive satemu, third-person possessive satenya)

1. (colloquial) satay (dish)

Synonyms

• satai

Further reading

• “sate” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

sate

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Khumi Chin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ca, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *z?. Cognates include Chinese ? (s?) (and probably Chinese ? (zuò)) and Mru ca?.

Alternative forms

• (Khimi Chin) sauteh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?a?.te?/

Verb

sate

1. (transitive) to do
2. (transitive) to make
3. (transitive) to build
4. (transitive) to plant
5. (transitive) to serve
6. (transitive) to prepare, arrange

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?a?.te?/

Verb

sate

1. (transitive) to lengthen

References

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[2], Payap University, pages 88-89

Malay

Etymology

From Tamil ??? (catai, “flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sate/
• Rhymes: -te, -e

Noun

sate (Jawi spelling ?????, plural sate-sate, informal 1st possessive sateku, impolite 2nd possessive satemu, 3rd possessive satenya)

1. satay (dish)

Descendants

Further reading

• “sate” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

North Frisian

Verb

sate

1. (Mooring Dialect) to sit

Conjugation

Tagalog

Noun

satè

1. cord or strong string (used in spinning tops, etc.)