bate

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

English

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Etymology 1

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

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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.
  4. (archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
  5. To waste away.
  6. To deprive of.
    • a. 1634 (date written), 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

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Noun

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bate (uncountable)

  1. Strife; contention.
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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

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Borrowed from Swedish beta (maceration, tanning).

Noun

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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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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

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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).

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bate

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

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

  1. (intransitive, slang) Clipping of masturbate.
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Asturian

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Noun

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bate m (plural bates)

  1. bat (club)

Crow

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Noun

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bate

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

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Dutch

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bate

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

Noun

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bate

  1. (archaic) dative singular of baat

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Fingallian

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Etymology

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Cognate with English beat (patrolled route).

Noun

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bate

  1. direction, course, track
    • A NORTH-COUNTY DUBLIN CLOSSARY:
      What bate are you on now = where are you going and why ? The dog is on some bate = is finding or following a scent.

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  • J. J. Hogan and Patrick C. O'Neill (1947) Béaloideas Iml. 17, Uimh 1/2, An Cumann Le Béaloideas Eireann/Folklore of lreland Society, page 264

Galician

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Verb

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bate

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

Garo

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Postposition

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bate

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

Gonja

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Etymology

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Gikyode bangadɛ, Chumburung bɔŋko̱rɔŋ.

Noun

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bate (plural abate)

  1. civet
    Synonym: jaba

Khumi Chin

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bate

  1. swelling

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References

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

Kitanemuk

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Etymology

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

Noun

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bāte

  1. water

References

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

Latin

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Noun

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bate

  1. vocative singular of batus

Lindu

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Noun

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bate

  1. gravestone

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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bate

  1. Alternative form of bot (boat)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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bate

  1. Alternative form of baten (to beat)

Etymology 3

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Verb

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bate

  1. Alternative form of baten (to abate)

Old English

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Noun

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bāte

  1. inflection of bāt:
    1. dative/genitive singular
    2. nominative plural
    3. accusative singular/plural

Portuguese

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bate

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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

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Verb

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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
  6. (transitive, of the sun) to shine

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Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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bate (Cyrillic spelling бате)

  1. vocative singular of bat

Serrano

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Etymology

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From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

Noun

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bāte

  1. water

References

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

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English bat.

Noun

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bate m (plural bates)

  1. (sports) bat

Etymology 2

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Noun

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bate m (plural bates)

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

Etymology 3

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bate

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

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Walloon

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Etymology

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

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bate

  1. (pronominal) to fight