bate
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Aphetic from abate.
VerbEdit
bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)
- (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 731548838:
- Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine.
- (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
- (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
- (archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2, scene 1:
- (Sebastian) "Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido."
- c. 1609 The Maid's Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, act 1, scene 1:
- Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood, / He lies that says it.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2, scene 1:
- To waste away.
- 1597, The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, by Shakespeare, act 3, scene 3:
- (Falstaff) "Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle?"
- 1597, The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, by Shakespeare, act 3, scene 3:
- To deprive of.
- 1633 (first published) George Herbert, The Church Porch
- When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake.
- 1633 (first published) George Herbert, The Church Porch
- 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 933799310:
- when the landholder's rent falls, he must either bate the labourer's wages , or not employ, or not pay him
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- 1649, [John] Milton, [Eikonoklastes] […], London: Printed by Matthew Simmons, […], OCLC 1044608640:
- to whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament
TranslationsEdit
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ReferencesEdit
- 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.
Etymology 2Edit
- Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate.
- Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Late Latin batere.
NounEdit
bate (uncountable)
- Strife; contention.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2:
- ... and wears his boots very smooth, like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no bate with telling of discreet stories;
- 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (Arabian Nights)
- So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing; […]
- 1911, H.G. Wells, The New Machiavelli:
- The other merely needs jealousy and bate, of which there are great and easily accessible reservoirs in every human heart.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2:
TranslationsEdit
VerbEdit
bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)
- (intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
- 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
- 1600, Francis Bacon, letter to Queen Elizabeth, upon the sending of a new-year's gift
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See alsoEdit
- (to contend or strive with blows or arguments): bait.
Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”).
NounEdit
bate (plural bates)
- 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.
- 1888, Popular Science (volume 34, number 10, page 287)
- A vat which contains this liquid.
TranslationsEdit
VerbEdit
bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)
TranslationsEdit
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ReferencesEdit
- 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.
Etymology 4Edit
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).
VerbEdit
bate
- (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense of beat; = beat.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292:
- Fitzpatrick, now perceiving […] that he had made a very unfortunate mistake, began to ask many pardons of the lady; and then, turning to Jones, he said, “I would have you take notice I do not ask your pardon, for you have bate me; for which I am resolved to have your blood in the morning.”
- 2008 October 20th, Lee Aronsohn, David Goetsch, Steven Molaro, and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory (Chuck Lorre Productions, Warner Bros. Television; CBS), season 2, episode 5: “The Euclid Alternative”
- Leonard: Penny’s taking you to the DMV; I’m going to bed.
Sheldon: Why Penny?
Leonard: Because rock bate scissors. Goodnight.
- Leonard: Penny’s taking you to the DMV; I’m going to bed.
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 5Edit
Shortening of masturbate.
VerbEdit
bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)
- (intransitive, slang) To masturbate.
- I could go out and take a walk in the park, but I'd rather stay home and bate all day.
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AsturianEdit
NounEdit
bate m (plural bates)
- bat (club)
CrowEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
bate
- male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 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.
DutchEdit
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EtymologyEdit
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Alternative formsEdit
PostpositionEdit
bate
- (follows dative case -na) more than
Khumi ChinEdit
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bate
KitanemukEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa. Cognate with Serrano bate.
NounEdit
bāte
ReferencesEdit
- Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81
LatinEdit
NounEdit
bate
LinduEdit
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bate
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
bate
- Alternative form of bot (“boat”)
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
bate
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of bater
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of bater
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Late Latin battere, variant of Latin battuere, present active infinitive of battuō (“beat”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
a bate (third-person singular present bate, past participle bătut) 3rd conj.
ConjugationEdit
infinitive | a bate | ||||||
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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-CroatianEdit
NounEdit
bate
SerranoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.
NounEdit
bāte
ReferencesEdit
- Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
bate m (plural bates)
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bate m (plural bates)
Etymology 3Edit
VerbEdit
bate
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of batir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of batir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of batir.
WalloonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French batre, from Late Latin battō, battere, alternative form of Latin battuō, battuere (“beat, pound; fight”).
VerbEdit
bate
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fight