skate
English
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
- skait (archaic)
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)
- 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.
- Abbreviation of ice skate.
- Abbreviation of roller skate.
- The act of skateboarding
- There's time for a quick skate before dinner.
- The act of roller skating or ice skating
- The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.
- (rail transport, Philippines, chiefly Bicol) A makeshift handcar.
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Verb
skate (third-person singular simple present skates, present participle skating, simple past and past participle skated)
- To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
- To skateboard.
- (skiing) To use the skating technique.
- (slang) To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
- 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[1]:
- 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.
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Adjective
skate (not comparable)
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 or skate)
- 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.
- 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times[2]:
- Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.
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Etymology 3
Unknown but probably related to skite(shit)
Noun
skate (plural skates)
- A worn-out horse.
- A mean or contemptible person.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “skate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Basque
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
skate inan
Declension
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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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
- skater (“skateboarder”)
Further reading
- “skate”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
Dutch
Etymology
From English skate, back-formed from Dutch schaats.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
skate m (plural skates, diminutive skateje n)
Derived terms
Verb
skate
- inflection of skaten:
French
Pronunciation
Noun
skate m (plural skates)
Verb
skate
- inflection of skater:
Further reading
- “skate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
skate
- inflection of skaten:
Latvian
Etymology
From skat(īt) (“to see, look”) + -e.
Pronunciation
Noun
skate f (5th declension)
- 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
- inspection, survey, review (syn. apskate)
- tarifikācijas skate ― classification, ranking review
- iziet skati ― to pass the scrutiny, test, inspection
Declension
Synonyms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
skate m (definite singular skaten, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)
- a skate (a fish)
- a dried tree without branches
References
- “skate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
skate f (definite singular skata, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)
- a skate (a fish)
References
- “skate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English skate.
Pronunciation
Noun
skate m (plural skates)
- skateboard (small platform on wheels)
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English skate.
Pronunciation
Noun
skate m (plural skates)
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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