skate
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Back-formation from earlier scates, from Dutch schaats, from Old Northern French escache, compare Modern French échasse.
Noun [edit]
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.
- 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.
Translations [edit]
runner
ice skate or roller skate
act of skateboarding
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act of skating or ice skating
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Verb [edit]
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
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates
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to skateboard
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Etymology 2 [edit]
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From Old Norse skata.
Noun [edit]
Wikipedia skate (plural skates)
- 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.
Translations [edit]
fish of family Rajidae
Anagrams [edit]
Dutch [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English skate, back-formed from Dutch schaats.
Noun [edit]
skate m (plural skates, diminutive skateje)
Derived terms [edit]
Verb [edit]
skate
- first-person singular present indicative of skaten
- singular present subjunctive of skaten
- imperative of skaten
French [edit]
Verb [edit]
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
Latvian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From skat(īt) (“to see, look”) + -e.
Noun [edit]
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 [edit]
declension of skate
Synonyms [edit]
Norwegian Bokmål [edit]
Noun [edit]
skate f, m (definite singular skata/skaten; indefinite plural skater; definite plural skatene)
- skate (a fish)
- a dried tree without branches
Categories:
- English back-formations
- English terms derived from Dutch
- English terms derived from Old Northern French
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English terms with multiple etymologies
- en:Fish
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch twice-borrowed terms
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch verb forms
- French verb forms
- Latvian words suffixed with -e
- Latvian nouns
- Latvian feminine nouns
- Latvian fifth declension nouns
- Latvian noun forms
- Latvian noun forms (vocative)
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
