skate

See also: Skate, skaté, and skatē

English

Ice skates.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skeɪt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪt
  • Hyphenation: skate

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 *skakkja (“stilt”).

Noun

skate (plural skates)

  1. 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.
  2. abbreviated form of ice skate or roller skate
  3. The act of skateboarding
    There's time for a quick skate before dinner.
  4. The act of roller skating or ice skating
    The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.
Translations
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Verb

skate (third-person singular simple present skates, present participle skating, simple past and past participle skated)

  1. To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
  2. To skateboard
  3. (skiing) To use the skating technique.
Derived terms
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Adjective

skate (not comparable)

  1. (skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.

Etymology 2

A drawing of a cuckoo skate (Leucoraja naevus)

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)

  1. 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

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

skate (plural skates)

  1. A worn-out horse.
  2. A mean or contemptible person.

Derived terms

Further reading

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Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

From English skate, back-formed from Dutch schaats.

Pronunciation

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Noun

skate m (plural skates, diminutive skateje n)

  1. inline skate

Derived terms

Verb

skate

  1. first-person singular present indicative of skaten
  2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of skaten
  3. imperative of skaten

French

Noun

skate m (plural skates)

  1. a skateboard

Verb

skate

  1. first-person singular present indicative of skater
  2. third-person singular present indicative of skater
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of skater
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of skater
  5. second-person singular imperative of skater

Further reading

German

Verb

skate

  1. First-person singular present of skaten.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of skaten.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of skaten.
  4. Imperative singular of skaten.

Latvian

Etymology

From skat(īt) (“to see, look”) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [skatɛ]

Noun

skate f (5th declension)

  1. 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
  2. inspection, survey, review (syn. apskate)
    tarifikācijas skate ― classification, ranking review
    iziet skati ― to pass the scrutiny, test, inspection

Declension

Synonyms

  • apskate
  • izstāde

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse skata

Noun

skate m (definite singular skaten, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)

  1. a skate (a fish)
  2. a dried tree without branches

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse skata

Noun

skate f (definite singular skata, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)

  1. a skate (a fish)

References

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English skate.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈskejt͡ʃ/

Noun

skate m (plural skates)

  1. skateboard (small platform on wheels)

Spanish

Noun

skate m (plural skates)

  1. skating, skateboarding
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