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

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Etymology 1 edit

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, 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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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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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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bate m (plural bates)

  1. bat (club)

Crow edit

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bate

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

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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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bate

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

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

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bate

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

Gonja edit

Etymology edit

Gikyode bangadɛ, Chumburung bɔŋko̱rɔŋ.

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bate (plural abate)

  1. civet
    Synonym: jaba

Khumi Chin edit

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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 edit

Etymology edit

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

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bate

  1. vocative singular of batus

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bate

  1. gravestone

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Etymology 1 edit

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bate

  1. Alternative form of bot (boat)

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bate

  1. Alternative form of baten (to beat)

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bate

  1. Alternative form of baten (to abate)

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bate

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

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

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 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

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bate (Cyrillic spelling бате)

  1. vocative singular of bat

Serrano edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

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

Etymology 1 edit

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

Etymology 3 edit

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bate

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

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Etymology edit

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