skate
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See also skaté
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- Rhymes: -eɪt
[edit] Etymology 1
Back-formation from earlier scates from Dutch schaats from Old North French escache, compare French échasse
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skate (plural skates)
- A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice.
- abbreviated form of ice skate or 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.
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to 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
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skate (plural skates)
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[edit] French
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skate
- First-person singular present indicative of skater.
- Third-person singular present indicative of skater.
- First-person singular present subjunctive of skater.
- Third-person singular present subjunctive of skater.
- Second-person singular imperative of skater.
[edit] Latvian
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skate
- IPA:/'skatɘ/
- A display, an exhibition, or a show.
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skate m. and f. (definite singular skata/skaten; indefinite plural skater; definite plural skatene)
- skate (a fish)
- a dried tree without branches

