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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ate /eɪt/USA pronunciation v. - the pt. of eat.
-ate1 ,suffix. - -ate is used to form adjectives with the meaning "showing;
full of'': passion + -ate → passionate (= showing passion);
consider + -ate → considerate (= showing the action of considering);
literate. - -ate is used to form verbs with the meaning "cause to become (like);
act as'': regular + -ate → regulate (= make regular, act by rule);
active + -ate → activate (= cause to become active);
hyphenate;
calibrate. - -ate is used to form nouns with the meanings:
- a group of people: elector + -ate → electorate (= group who elect).
- an area ruled by: caliph (a kind of ruler) + -ate → caliphate (= area ruled by a caliph);
protector + -ate → protectorate (= area ruled by a protecting nation). - the office, institution, or function of: consul + -ate → consulate;
magistrate;
potentate.
-ate2 , is a suffix used: WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ate (āt; Brit. et),USA pronunciation v. - pt. of eat.
A•te (ā′tē, ä′tē),USA pronunciation n. - Mythologyan ancient Greek goddess personifying the fatal blindness or recklessness that produces crime and the divine punishment that follows it.
- Greek, special use of átē reckless impulse, ruin, akin to aáein to mislead, harm
- equipment that makes a series of tests automatically.
- a(utomatic) t(est) e(quipment)
- a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution paralleling that of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate;
advocate;
agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin:calibrate; acierate.
- Latin -ātus (masculine), -āta (feminine), -ātum (neuter), equivalent. to -ā- thematic vowel + -tus, -ta, -tum past participle suffix
- Chemistrya specialization of -ate1, used to indicate a salt of an acid ending in -ic, added to a form of the stem of the element or group: nitrate;
sulfate. Compare -ite1.
- probably origin, originally in Neo-Latin phrases, as plumbum acetātum salt produced by the action of acetic acid on lead
- a suffix occurring orig. in nouns borrowed from Latin, and in English coinages from Latin bases, that denote offices or functions (consulate;
triumvirate;
pontificate), as well as institutions or collective bodies (electorate;
senate);
sometimes extended to denote a person who exercises such a function (magistrate;
potentate), an associated place (consulate), or a period of office or rule ( protectorate). Joined to stems of any origin, ate 3 signifies the office, term of office, or territory of a ruler or official (caliphate;
khanate;
shogunate).
- Latin -ātus (genitive -ātūs), generalized from verb, verbal ders., as augurātus office of an augur (augurā(re) to foretell by augury + -tus suffix of verb, verbal action), construed as der. of augur augur
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: ate /ɛt; eɪt/ vb - the past tense of eat
eat /it/USA pronunciation v., ate /eɪt; esp. Brit. ɛt/USA pronunciation eat•en /ˈitən/USA pronunciation eat•ing, n. v. - Physiologyto take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment: [~ + object]We ate dinner early.[no object]We haven't eaten all day.
- to use up, esp. wastefully;
consume gradually or slowly:[~ + up/away/into + object]Unexpected expenses ate up their savings. - to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by wearing away, gnawing, or corroding:[~ + object]The acid ate a hole right through the metal.
n. - Informal Terms eats, [plural] Informal. food:The eats are good there and the prices are cheap.
eat•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024eat (ēt),USA pronunciation v., ate (āt;
esp. Brit. et) or (Archaic) eat (et, ēt);
eat•en or (Archaic) eat (et, ēt);
eat•ing;
n. v.t. - Physiologyto take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment;
chew and swallow (food). - to consume by or as if by devouring gradually;
wear away;
corrode:The patient was eaten by disease and pain. - to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion.
- to ravage or devastate:a forest eaten by fire.
- to use up, esp. wastefully;
consume (often fol. by up):Unexpected expenses have been eating up their savings. - to absorb or pay for:The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs.
- Slang Terms(vulgar). to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on.
v.i. - to consume food;
take a meal:We'll eat at six o'clock. - to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion:Acid ate through the linoleum.
- Idioms be eating someone, [Informal.]to worry, annoy, or bother:Something seems to be eating him—he's been wearing a frown all day.
- eat away or into, to destroy gradually, as by erosion:For eons, the pounding waves ate away at the shoreline.
- Idioms eat crow. See crow 1 (def. 7).
- Idioms eat high off the hog. See hog (def. 11).
- Idioms eat humble pie. See humble pie (def. 3).
- Idioms eat in, to eat or dine at home.
- Idioms eat one's heart out. See heart (def. 23).
- Idioms eat one's terms. See term (def. 16).
- Idioms eat one's words. See word (def. 14).
- eat out, to have a meal at a restaurant rather than at home.
- eat out of one's hand. See hand (def. 36).
- Idioms eat someone out of house and home, to eat so much as to strain someone's resources of food or money:A group of hungry teenagers can eat you out of house and home.
- Idioms eat someone's lunch, [Slang.]to thoroughly defeat, outdo, injure, etc.
- Nautical eat the wind out of, to blanket (a sailing vessel sailing close-hauled) by sailing close on the weather side of.
- eat up:
- to consume wholly.
- to show enthusiasm for;
take pleasure in:The audience ate up everything he said. - to believe without question.
n. - Informal Terms eats, food.
- bef. 900; Middle English eten, Old English etan; cognate with German essen, Gothic itan, Latin edere
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Ate /ˈeɪtɪ; ˈɑːtɪ/ n - a goddess who makes men blind so that they will blunder into guilty acts
Etymology: 16th Century: via Latin from Greek atē a rash impulse Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -ate suffix - (forming adjectives) possessing; having the appearance or characteristics of: fortunate, palmate, Latinate
- (forming nouns) a chemical compound, esp a salt or ester of an acid: carbonate, stearate
- (forming nouns) the product of a process: condensate
- forming verbs from nouns and adjectives: hyphenate, rusticate
Etymology: from Latin -ātus, past participial ending of verbs ending in -āre -ate suffix forming nouns - denoting office, rank, or a group having a certain function: episcopate, electorate
Etymology: from Latin -ātus, suffix (fourth declension) of collective nouns Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: eat /iːt/ vb (eats, eating, ate, eaten)- to take into the mouth and swallow (food, etc), esp after biting and chewing
- (tr; often followed by away or up) to destroy as if by eating: the damp had eaten away the woodwork
- (often followed by into) to use up or waste: taxes ate into his inheritance
- often followed by into or through: to make (a hole, passage, etc) by eating or gnawing: rats ate through the floor
- to take or have (a meal or meals): we always eat at six
- (transitive) to include as part of one's diet: he doesn't eat fish
- (transitive) informal to cause to worry; make anxious: what's eating you?
See also eat out, eats, eat upEtymology: Old English etan; related to Gothic itan, Old High German ezzan, Latin edere, Greek edein, Sanskrit admiˈeater n |