different between skate vs rink

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ske?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Hyphenation: skate

Etymology 1

Back-formation from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch sch?etse, from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”) (compare French échasse and English scatch), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *skakkja (“stilt”).

Noun

skate (plural skates)

1. A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
2. Abbreviation of ice skate.
3. Abbreviation of roller skate.
4. The act of skateboarding

   There's time for a quick skate before dinner.

5. The act of roller skating or ice skating

   The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.

Translations

Verb

skate (third-person singular simple present skates, present participle skating, simple past and past participle skated)

1. To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
2. To skateboard.
3. (skiing) To use the skating technique.
4. (slang) To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

skate (not comparable)

1. (skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.

Etymology 2

From Middle English skat, scate (also schat), from Old Norse skata (“skate”). Cognate with Icelandic skata (“skate, ray”), Norwegian skate (“skate”).

Noun

skate (plural skates)

1. A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body.

Translations

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

skate (plural skates)

1. A worn-out horse.
2. A mean or contemptible person.

Derived terms

• cheapskate
• labor skate

Further reading

• skate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Keast, Keats, Stake, kates, ketas, stake, steak, takes, teaks

Dutch

Etymology

From English skate, back-formed from Dutch schaats.

Pronunciation

Noun

skate m (plural skates, diminutive skateje n)

1. inline skate

Derived terms

• skaten

Verb

skate

1. first-person singular present indicative of skaten
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of skaten
3. imperative of skaten

French

Noun

skate m (plural skates)

1. a skateboard

Verb

skate

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

Further reading

• “skate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

skate

1. inflection of skaten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Latvian

Etymology

From skat(?t) (“to see, look”) +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [skat?]

Noun

skate f (5th declension)

1. display, exhibition, show (a planned event with the goal of showing, demonstrating something to the public; syn. izst?de)

2. inspection, survey, review (syn. apskate)

Declension

Synonyms

• apskate
• izst?de

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse skata

Noun

skate m (definite singular skaten, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)

1. a skate (a fish)
2. a dried tree without branches

References

• “skate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse skata

Noun

skate f (definite singular skata, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)

1. a skate (a fish)

References

• “skate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• esqueite (uncommon)

Etymology

Borrowed from English skate.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?skejt??/

Noun

skate m (plural skates)

1. skateboard (small platform on wheels)

Spanish

Noun

skate m (plural skates)

1. skating, skateboarding

English

Pronunciation

• (Canada, US, UK) IPA^(key): /???k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English rink, renk, from Old English rinc (“man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-Germanic *rankiz (“upright man”), from *rankaz (“straight, upright”), from Proto-Indo-European *re?- (“straight, direct”). Cognate with Scots rink, renk (“man, warrior, hero”), Old Saxon rink (“man”), Old Norse rekkr (“a straight or upright man”), Old English ranc (“proud, noble, valiant”). More at rank.

Noun

rink (plural rinks)

1. (Britain dialectal) A man, especially a warrior or hero.

Etymology 2

From Middle English rink, rynk, variation of ring (“ring”); compare Low German rink (“ring, circle”), Middle High German rinc (“a ring, circle”). Doublet of ring.

Noun

rink (plural rinks)

1. (Britain dialectal) A ring; a circle.
2. A sheet of ice prepared for playing certain sports, such as hockey or curling.

   We played hockey all winter until the rink melted.

3. A surface for roller skating.
4. A building housing an ice rink.
5. (curling) A team in a competition.

   The Schmirler rink won the Silver Broom.

Descendants

• Portuguese: rinque

Translations

Anagrams

• Kirn

Manx

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

rink (verbal noun rinkey)

1. to dance

Synonyms

• daunse

Derived terms

• rinkagh

Related terms

• daunsagh
• daunsin
• rinkey

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rinkan?.

Noun

rink (preterite rinkä)

1. (ergative) shake, rock

Related terms

• reka
• rega
• riikk