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SKATE
skate
(noun) large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins
skate
(noun) sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs
skate
(verb) move along on skates; “The Dutch often skate along the canals in winter”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Skate
(fandom slang) The ship of characters James "Sawyer" Ford and Kate Austen from the television series Lost.
Anagrams
• Keast, Keats, Stake, kates, ketas, stake, steak, takes, teaks
Etymology 1
Noun
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.
Abbreviation of ice skate.
Abbreviation of roller skate.
The act of skateboarding
The act of roller skating or ice skating
Verb
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
(skiing) To use the skating technique.
(slang) To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
Adjective
skate (not comparable)
(skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.
Etymology 2
Noun
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.
Etymology 3
Noun
skate (plural skates)
A worn-out horse.
A mean or contemptible person.
Anagrams
• Keast, Keats, Stake, kates, ketas, stake, steak, takes, teaks
Source: Wiktionary
Skate, n. Etym: [D. schaats. Cf. Scatches.]
Definition: A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice. Batavia rushes forth; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is maddended all to joy. Thomson. Roller skate. See under Roller.
Skate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skated; p. pr. & vb. n. Skating.]
Definition: To move on skates.
Skate, n. Etym: [Icel. skata; cf. Prov. G. schatten, meer-schatten, L. squatus, squatina, and E. shad.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin is more or less spinose.
Note: Some of the species are used for food, as the European blue or gray skate (Raia batis), which sometimes weighs nearly 200 pounds. The American smooth, or barn-door, skate (R. lævis) is also a large species, often becoming three or four feet across. The common spiny skate (R. erinacea) is much smaller. Skate's egg. See Sea purse.
– Skate sucker, any marine leech of the genus Pontobdella, parasitic on skates.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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