skate

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See also: Skate, skaté, skatē, and скате

English

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Ice skates.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skeɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪt
  • Hyphenation: skate

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

Back-formation from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schāetse, from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”) (compare French échasse and English scatch), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), related to *skakan (“to shake, swing”).

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
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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.
  5. To move smoothly and easily.
    • March 26 2023, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian‎:
      Addressing a short pass from Henderson, he always felt too smart for Mykola Matviyenko, taking a step to lure him one way; dropping his shoulder and skating in the other direction, further inside.
Derived terms
from Etymology 1
Translations
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Adjective

skate (not comparable)

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

Etymology 2

A drawing of a cuckoo skate (Leucoraja naevus)

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

Noun

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skate (plural skates or skate)

  2. 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.
    • 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:
      The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

skate (plural skates)

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

Further reading

  • “skate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

Basque

Etymology

From English skate.

Pronunciation

Noun

skate inan

  1. skateboard
  2. skateboarding

Declension

Declension of skate (inanimate, ending in orthographical vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive skate skate-a skate-ak
ergative skate-k skate-ak skate-ek
dative skate-ri skate-ari skate-ei
genitive skate-ren skate-aren skate-en
comitative skate-rekin skate-arekin skate-ekin
causative skate-rengatik skate-arengatik skate-engatik
benefactive skate-rentzat skate-arentzat skate-entzat
instrumental skate-z skate-az skate-ez
inessive skate-tan skate-an skate-etan
locative skate-tako skate-ko skate-etako
allative skate-tara skate-ra skate-etara
terminative skate-taraino skate-raino skate-etaraino
directive skate-tarantz skate-rantz skate-etarantz
destinative skate-tarako skate-rako skate-etarako
ablative skate-tatik skate-tik skate-etatik
partitive skate-rik — —
prolative skate-tzat — —

Related terms

Further reading

  • "skate" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

Dutch

Etymology

From English skate, back-formed from Dutch schaats.

Pronunciation

Noun

skate m (plural skates, diminutive skateje n)

  1. inline skate

Derived terms

Verb

skate

  1. inflection of skaten:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
    3. imperative

French

Pronunciation

Noun

skate m (plural skates)

  1. a skateboard

Verb

skate

  1. inflection of skater:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

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(īt) (“to see, look”) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

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Noun

skate f (5th declension)

  1. display, exhibition, show (a planned event with the goal of showing, demonstrating something to the public; syn. izstāde)
    modes skate ― fashion show
    tēlotājas mākslas skate ― fine art show
    zemkopības tehnikas skate ― agriculture machinery show
    mākslinieciskās pašdarbības skate ― amateur performance show
  2. inspection, survey, review (syn. apskate)
    tarifikācijas skate ― classification, ranking review
    iziet skati ― to pass the scrutiny, test, inspection

Declension

Declension of skate (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) skate skates
accusative (akuzatīvs) skati skates
genitive (ģenitīvs) skates skašu
dative (datīvs) skatei skatēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) skati skatēm
locative (lokatīvs) skatē skatēs
vocative (vokatīvs) skate skates

Synonyms

Norwegian Bokmål

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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

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English skate.

Pronunciation

 
 

Noun

skate m (plural skates)

  1. skateboard (small platform on wheels)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English skate.

Pronunciation

Noun

skate m (plural skates)

  1. skating, skateboarding

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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