Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An ice skate.
- n. A roller skate.
- n. A skateboard.
- n. The act or a period of skating or skateboarding.
- v. To glide or move along on or as if on skates.
- v. To ride or perform stunts on a skateboard.
- v. Informal To act in an irresponsible or superficial manner.
- n. Any of various rays of the genus Raja, having a flattened body and greatly expanded pectoral fins that extend around the head.
- n. A fellow; a person.
- n. A decrepit horse; a nag.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A raioid or batoid plagiostomous fish of the family Raiidæ and genus Raia; a kind of ray. All skates are rays, but all rays are not called
skates , this name being applied chiefly to certain small rays of the restricted genus Raia, of both Europe and America. The common blue or gray skate or ray of the British coast is Raia batis, of a somewhat lozenge-shaped figure, and rather long tail, with some fin-like expansions near its end, as well as prominent claspers and other processes at the root. Other skates of British waters are the long-nosed and sharp-nosed, and the thornback. On the Atlantic coast of North America the common little skate, a foot or two long, is R. erinacea, sometimes calledtobacco-box . The big skate or ocellated ray is R. ocellata, nearly 3 feet; the starry skate, R. radiata, of medium size, is found on both coasts; R. eglanteria is the brierskate, medium-sized, and not common. The largest is the barn-door skate, R, lævis, about 4 feet long. The common skate of the Pacific side is R. binoculata, and several others occur on the same coast Some of these fishes are edible, and, on the continent of Europe, even esteemed. Their egg-cases (skate-barrows) are curious objects. See also cuts under Elasmobranchii, mermaid's-purse, and ray. - n. A contrivance for enabling a person to glide swiftly on ice, consisting of a steel runner fixed either to a wooden sole provided with straps and buckles, or to a light iron or steel frame-work having adjustable clamps or other means of attachment to a shoe or boot. See roller-skate.
- To glide over ice and snow on skates.
- n. In New Zealand, the skate is Raja nasuta.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
- n. abbreviated form of ice skate or roller skate
- n. The act of skateboarding
- n. The act of roller skating or ice skating
- v. To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
- v. To skateboard
- n. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
- v. To move on skates.
- n. (Zoöl.) 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
- n. 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
- v. move along on skates
Etymologies
- Back-formation from earlier scates, from Dutch schaats, from Old Northern French escache, compare Modern French échasse. (Wiktionary)
- From Dutch schaats, stilt, skate (taken as pl.), from Middle Dutch schaetse, from Old North French escache, stilt, perhaps of Germanic origin.Middle English scate, from Old Norse skata.Perhaps alteration of dialectal skite, contemptible person; see blatherskite. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“November 20th, 2009 2: 50 pm ET it seems to me if you are black and a member of congress. "you will be geared for failure" set up for the okey doke ..... while the fbi let folks like palin skate and paul bremmer and the vanishing 9 billion dollars go up in smoke w/o a word. and EVERYONE is mumb about.”
“There are two kinds of people that really symbolize the values of determination and perfectionism to me: kids in skate board parks and graffiti artists.”
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“On the replay you can see his skate is in the crease.”
“| Reply skate is ten pounds of cool .. far cry from sticky grind-rails in TOny Hawk games ..”
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“The moral relativism that will probably let Conyers skate is part of that ideology.”
“Nik Antropov was sent off for high-sticking, and Weight capitalized on the ensuing power play when he directed the puck into the net with his skate from a few feet away and had to wait until it was ruled legal by video replay.”
“I was very successful in skate skis (freestyle) and not as successful in classic skis.”
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“After that, the Russian was as sure as ever and as stylish and cocky as Vaclav Nijinsky, the revolutionary ballet dancer his free skate is homage to.”
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“All the Stars were caught out of position on Reasoner's second goal, allowing him to again skate at the goal untouched.”
“Markov's shot by Thibault's right skate from the left goalpost for his third goal of the season.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘skate’.
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Fight scene words
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Slam, Sidestep, Evade, Roundhouse, Momentum, Counter, Clip, Feeding Frenzy, Advance, Cuff, Ambush, Nimbly and 142 more...
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
weightlift, orbitale, figure skate, speed skate, synchronizer, equestrian sport, bobsleigh, starting block, diesis, ligne, piste, water ski and 521 more...
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sharks, rays and skates
about 330 species of sharks
about 450 species of rays and
skatesangel shark, angelfish, basking shark, blue pointer blue..., bronze whaler, bull-head shark, carpet shark, devil ray, devilfish, dog shark, dogfish, elasmobranch and 119 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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PECH - marine species
African cuttlefish, Alaska plaice, Alaska pollock, Alaska pollack, walleye pollock, alewife, gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, allis shad, American angler, goosefish and 994 more...
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I am : moving
Words to describe gait and movement.
walk, run, trot, jog, canter, gallop, skip, crawl, slink, slither, amble, trundle and 69 more...
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Baby, Work Out!
Names of popular or once dances.
hully gully, slauson, twist, jitterbug, stroll, pony, mashed potato, swim, jerk, watusi, boogaloo, worm and 54 more...
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Favorite Words
symbologist, articulate, sushi, chinchilla, flagrant, cosmic, perforate, alacrity, gooseflesh, xenophobic, bamboozle, squirrel and 90 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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Activated Phonemes
This list was generated by first taking a letter from the alphabet, or any of the initial cluster set of phonesthemes compiled by the ingenious Benjamin Shisler) and then sticking one of the suffix...
bing, ding, ging, jing, ling, ming, king, ping, ring, sing, ting, wing and 189 more...
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beastly verbs
someone must already have this list?
squirrel away, worm it out of so..., pony up, fish for compliments, weasel out, badger, outfox, horse around, hound, cow, chicken out, goose and 99 more...
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New Words
smarmy, purge, linger, shimmer, fiercely, frantically, shove, grunt, errand, clench, wriggle, squeeze and 168 more...
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The Windhover
Lovely words from Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem
minion, kingdom, daylight, dauphin, dapple, dawn, drawn, falcon, rolling, steady, striding, rung and 29 more...
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OM2 Lesson 13
unexpected, downtown, window, beg, rollerblade, knee, knee pad, helmet, bunch, skate, bruise, fit and 11 more...
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Things that Roll, Things One Rolls, o...
alabama, jordan, burrito, wheel, tootsie, onion, kaiser, fat, sushi, california, stones, joint and 47 more...
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