cater
(verb) supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets
provide, supply, ply, cater
(verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; “The hostess provided lunch for all the guests”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cater (third-person singular simple present caters, present participle catering, simple past and past participle catered)
To provide, particularly:
(ambitransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
(intransitive, figurative, with 'to') To provide anything required or desired, often (pejorative) to pander.
cater (plural caters)
(obsolete) synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.
(obsolete) synonym of caterer: any provider of food.
(figurative, obsolete) synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.
cater (third-person singular simple present caters, present participle catering, simple past and past participle catered)
(UK dialect) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
cater (not comparable)
(UK dialect, US) Diagonally.
cater (plural caters)
(rare, obsolete) Four.
(cards, dice, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.
(music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.
• Carte, Trace, acter, caret, carte, crate, creat, react, recta, reäct, trace
Source: Wiktionary
Ca"ter, n. Etym: [OE. catour purchaser, caterer, OF. acator, fr. acater, F. acheter, to buy, provide, fr. LL. accaptare; L. ad + captare to strive, to seize, intens, of capere to take, seize. Cf. Acater, Capacious.]
Definition: A provider; a purveyor; a caterer. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Ca"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Catered; p. pr. & vb. n. Catering.] Etym: [From Cater, n.]
1. To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions. [He] providently caters for the sparrow. Shak.
2. By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.
Ca"ter, n. Etym: [F. quatre four.]
Definition: The four of cards or dice.
Ca"ter, v. t.
Definition: To cut diagonally. [Obs.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
