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bate

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

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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”).

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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 eat → ate or other Class 5 strong verbs (compare gave, obsolete spake, etc.), with which it shares an analogous past participle (eaten → beaten).

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bate

  1. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past of beat; = beat.
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simple past of beat — see beat

Etymology 5

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Clipping of masturbate.

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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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masturbate — see 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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bate

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

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  • Integration of Crow Indian Culture, in Cultural Anthropology, page 11: The aggressive vigor and virility of man, in the Crow view, stood in profound opposition to the passivity and weakness of woman. Young men who failed the test of the war raid had "nothing to say or do in any public business whatever" but had to endure biting obscenities which linked their personalities to the flaccid qualities of woman. The bate, male transvestites, were no exception. Bate were "crazy" people with whom one could have some fun, a sexual escapade perhaps, and they might be married because they excelled women in butchering, tanning, and other domestic tasks. But they never were honored, and when a bate raised a gun against the enemy, the Crow remembered it as a signal event.
  • Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men →ISBN, 2010):
     Page 117: The attempt of an Indian agent on the Crow Reservation around the turn of the century to induce Osh-Tisch, one of the three surviving bate, to put on men's clothing was unsuccessful (Williams 1986b:179). The other Crows protested, "saying it was against his [sic] nature".
     Page 187: Apart from enduring relationships, intercourse with women has sometimes been represented as being possible for [...] the Crow bate.
  • Walter L. Williams, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture:
    Joe Medicine Crow, an elder in the Baptist church on the Montana reservation of the Crows, is also keeper of the tribal history among traditionalists. He [....] explained the incident with the BIA agents: "One agent in the late 1890s was named Briskow [...] He tried to interfere with Osh-Tisch, who was the most respected bade. The agent incarcerated the bades, cut off their hair, made them wear men's clothing. He forced the to do manual labor, planting these trees that you see here on the BIA grounds. The people were so upset with this that Chief Pretty Eagle came into Crow Agency, and told Briskow to leave the reservation. It was a tragedy, trying to change them. Briskow was crazy." Considering how little power Indians had on their reservations at the beginning of the century, the strength of the Crows' protest, forcing the agent to resign, is remarkable.

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bate

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

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bate

  1. (archaic) dative singular of baat

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Galician

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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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(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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Gikyode bangadɛ, Chumburung bɔŋko̱rɔŋ.

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bate (plural abate)

  1. civet
    Synonym: jaba

Khumi Chin

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bate

  1. swelling

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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.

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bāte

  1. water

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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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bate

  1. vocative singular of batus

Lindu

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bate

  1. gravestone

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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bate

  1. Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

Etymology 2

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bate

  1. Alternative form of baten (“to beat”)

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bate

  1. Alternative form of baten (“to abate”)

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

  1. (transitive) to beat (repeatedly hit for various purposes)
    a bate la ușă ― to knock on the door
    a bate untul ― to churn butter
    a bate la tălpi ― to administer a foot whipping
    a bate la mașină ― to 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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    conjugation of bate (third conjugation, past participle in -ut)
infinitive a bate
gerund bătând
past participle bătut
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present bat bați bate batem bateți bat
imperfect băteam băteai bătea băteam băteați băteau
simple perfect bătui bătuși bătu băturăm băturăți bătură
pluperfect bătusem bătuseși bătuse bătuserăm bătuserăți bătuseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să bat să bați să bată să batem să bateți să bată
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative bate bateți
negative nu bate nu bateți

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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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From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

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bāte

  1. water

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

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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.

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bate m (plural bates)

  1. (sports) bat

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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

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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. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fight
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