bate

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See also: Bate, baté, bâté, bâte, and bäte

English[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Middle English baten (to abate), an aphetic form of abaten.

Verb[edit]

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
  2. (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
  3. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
    • 1674, [Richard Allestree], “Of Positiveness”, in The Government of the Tongue. [], Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Theater, →OCLC, page 197:
      Nay, if he be of a proud humour, [] he will not Bate an Ace of abſolute certainty, but however doubtful or improbable the thing is, coming f[r]om him it muſt go for an indiſputable truth.
  4. (archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
  5. To waste away.
  6. To deprive of.
    • a. 1634, George Herbert, “The Church Porch”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert. [] (The Fuller Worthies’ Library), volume I (Verse), London: [] [Robson and Sons] for private circulation, published 1874, →OCLC, page 20:
      When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake; []
  7. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
    • 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. [], London: [] Awnsham and John Churchill, [], published 1692, →OCLC, page 113:
      [W]hen the Landholder's Rent falls, he muſt either bate the Labourer's Wages, or not imploy, or not pay him; which either way makes him feel the want of Money.
  8. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
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  • Robert Hunter; Charles Morris, editors (1897) Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 1, page 459

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

bate (uncountable)

  1. Strife; contention.
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Verb[edit]

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

  1. (intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
  2. (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
    • 1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:
      The fiꝛſt is holde faſt at all timys, and ſpecially whan ſhe batith. It is calde batyng, for ſhe batith with hiꝛ ſelfe moſt oftyn cauſeles[.]
    • 1600, Francis Bacon, letter to Queen Elizabeth, upon the sending of a new-year's gift:
      I am like a hawk , that bates , when I see occasion of service , but cannot fly because I am tied to another's fist
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  • (to contend or strive with blows or arguments): bait.

Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from Swedish beta (maceration, tanning).

Noun[edit]

bate (plural bates)

  1. An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
    • 1888, Popular Science, volume 34, number 10, page 287:
      The process of unliming hides and skins in tanning has been a slow and disgusting one, consisting in soaking the skins in a bath of manure in water, called bate.
  2. A vat which contains this liquid.
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Verb[edit]

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

  1. (transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
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  • Robert Hunter; Charles Morris, editors (1897) Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 1, page 459

Etymology 4[edit]

Formed by analogy with eatate or other Class 5 strong verbs (compare gave, obsolete spake, etc.), with which it shares an analogous past participle (eatenbeaten).

Verb[edit]

bate

  1. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past of beat; = beat.
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Etymology 5[edit]

Clipping of masturbate.

Verb[edit]

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To masturbate.
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Asturian[edit]

Noun[edit]

bate m (plural bates)

  1. bat (club)

Crow[edit]

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Noun[edit]

bate

  1. male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman

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Dutch[edit]

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bate

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of baten

Noun[edit]

bate

  1. (archaic) dative singular of baat

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Garo[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Postposition[edit]

bate

  1. (follows dative case -na) more than
    angna bate dal·a
    bigger than me

Gonja[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Gikyode bangadɛ, Chumburung bɔŋko̱rɔŋ.

Noun[edit]

bate (plural abate)

  1. civet
    Synonym: jaba

Khumi Chin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bate

  1. swelling

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References[edit]

  • K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin[1], Payap University, page 74

Kitanemuk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa. Cognate with Serrano bate.

Noun[edit]

bāte

  1. water

References[edit]

  • Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81

Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

bate

  1. vocative singular of batus

Lindu[edit]

Noun[edit]

bate

  1. gravestone

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

bate

  1. Alternative form of bot (boat)

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

bate

  1. Alternative form of baten (to beat)

Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

bate

  1. Alternative form of baten (to abate)

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

 

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bate

  1. inflection of bater:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin battere, from earlier battuere. Compare Aromanian bat. First attested in the 16th century.

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Verb[edit]

a bate (third-person singular present bate, past participle bătut) 3rd conj.

  1. (transitive) to beat (repeatedly hit for various purposes)
    a bate la ușăto knock on the door
    a bate untulto churn butter
    a bate la tălpito administer a foot whipping
    a bate la mașinăto type on a typewriter
  2. (transitive or reciprocal) to beat (give a beating)
  3. (transitive, colloquial) to defeat
    Synonyms: învinge, înfrânge
  4. (intransitive, of the heart) to beat
  5. (transitive, of the wind) to blow

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Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Noun[edit]

bate (Cyrillic spelling бате)

  1. vocative singular of bat

Serrano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

Noun[edit]

bāte

  1. water

References[edit]

  • Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈbate/ [ˈba.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Syllabification: ba‧te

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bat.

Noun[edit]

bate m (plural bates)

  1. (sports) bat

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

bate m (plural bates)

  1. (Honduras, slang) reefer, joint (a marijuana cigarette)
    Synonyms: canuto, (Honduras) carruco, (Honduras) leño, porro, (Chile) pito

Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

bate

  1. inflection of batir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Walloon[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French batre, from Late Latin battō, battere, alternative form of Latin battuō, battuere (beat, pound; fight).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

bate

  1. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fight