| 单词 | cater |
| 释义 | cater (once / 1805 pages) v To cater means to supply food for meetings or celebrations. If you're having a big barbecue party but would rather hang out with your friends than grill, you could pay someone to cater it. In Middle English, the food supply in a big household was known as the cates, and so to cater meant keeping the pantry full. These days, caterers don't do pantries. They cook food for many different households or offices. Cater has also come to mean "giving what is desired or needed." You might cater to your grandfather by bringing him tea, reading to him, and laughing at his bad jokes. WORD FAMILYcater: catered, caterer, catering, caters+/caterer: caterers/catering: caterings USAGE EXAMPLESThe Lorraine, I learn, catered to black travelers at a time when the much of the South — including Memphis — remained segregated. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Fortunately for Helton, he discovered resources that catered to someone like him - a veteran looking to start a farm. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) They cater to bigotry and fear, which fly in the face of our country’s most precious values. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1v give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance Syn|Hypo|Hyper ply, provide, supply staff provide with staff drenchforce to drink regale, treatprovide with choice or abundant food or drink boardprovide food and lodging (for) feed, givegive food to feedserve as food for; be the food for dish, dish out, dish up, serve, serve upprovide (usually but not necessarily food) help, servehelp to some food; help with food or drink powersupply the force or power for the functioning of feedprovide as food gratify, indulge, panderyield (to); give satisfaction to underlayprovide with a base, support, lining, or backing fill, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfyfill or meet a want or need horseprovide with a horse or horses showerprovide abundantly with accommodateprovide with something desired or needed nourish, nurture, sustainprovide with nourishment fix upfind (something or someone) for gutterprovide with gutters humor, humourput into a good mood manprovide with workers dinegive dinner to; host for dinner winetreat to wine alcoholizesubject to the influence of alcohol live in, sleep inlive in the house where one works scavengefeed on carrion or refuse foddergive fodder (to domesticated animals) slop, swillfeed pigs regurgitatefeed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food cornfeed (cattle) with corn malnourish, undernourishprovide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment overfeedfeed excessively spoonfeedfeed with a spoon force-feedfeed someone who will not or cannot eat plankcook and serve on a plank drivecause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling feast, feedgratify spreeengage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping answerbe satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of remountprovide with fresh horses lunchprovide a midday meal for breakfastprovide breakfast for breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nursegive suck to bottlefeedfeed (infants) with a bottle sow one's oats, sow one's wild oatslive promiscuously and self-indulgently appease, quell, stayovercome or allay injectfeed intravenously carrybe able to feed feed on, feed uponbe sustained by allay, assuage, quench, slakesatisfy (thirst) aliment, nourish, nutrifygive nourishment to rangelet eat crop, graze, pasturelet feed in a field or pasture or meadow give transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody 2v supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets Hyper ply, provide, supply give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance |
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