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ate    音标拼音: ['et]
vbl. 吃

吃

Ate
n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

Ate \Ate\ (?; 277),
the preterit of {Eat}.
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Ate \A"te\, n. [Gr. ?.] (Greek. Myth.)
The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the
goddess of vengeance.
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-ate \-ate\ [From the L. suffix -atus, the past participle
ending of verbs of the 1st conj.]
1. As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it
is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or
animated.
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2. As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to
act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to
animate (to give life to).
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3. As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate,
delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity;
as, tribunate.
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4. In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from
those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or
halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate
from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of
certain basic salts.
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Eat \Eat\ ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent &
Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or
Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten,
AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan,
G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. [aum]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan,
Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad.
[root]6. Cf. {Etch}, {Fret} to rub, {Edible}.]
1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially
of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as
oxen." --Dan. iv. 25.
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They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps.
cvi. 28.
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The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
--Gen. xli.
20.
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The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings
xiii. 28.
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With stories told of many a feat,
How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton.
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The island princes overbold
Have eat our substance. --Tennyson.
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His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
--Thackeray.
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2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to
cause to disappear.
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{To eat humble pie}. See under {Humble}.

{To eat of} (partitive use). "Eat of the bread that can not
waste." --Keble.

{To eat one's words}, to retract what one has said. (See the
Citation under {Blurt}.)

{To eat out}, to consume completely. "Eat out the heart and
comfort of it." --Tillotson.

{To eat the wind out of a vessel} (Naut.), to gain slowly to
windward of her.

Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
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  • suffixes - Pronunciation of the -ate suffix - English Language Usage . . .
    Some disyllabic -ate verbs are pronounced with the primary stress on the second syllable (e g create); this isn't as common in American English as it is in British English (where vibrate, migrate and narrate often take second-syllable stress)
  • verbs - The pronunciation of ate - English Language Usage Stack . . .
    I find the OED note puzzling, because the OED2 (and OED3—there was no change) article gives the pronunciation of ate as “ eɪt ɛt iːt ” and also makes it clear that eɪt is the older form, with εt being analogically formed based on similarly patterning strong verbs like read and lead (and also beat and heat in certain dialectal
  • Whats the difference between I did eat and I ate?
    In short, what is the difference between the following sentences? I did eat my lunch an hour ago I ate my lunch an hour ago They both are past tense Honestly, I'm confused between them
  • meaning - I just ate them and Ive just eaten them — Whats the . . .
    "I ate it" is regarding the event on its own without considering any present relevance - even possibly those same acts of eating the curry, the cake and the polar bear In a similar way, some expressions of time encompass the present
  • What American English dialect has et as the past tense of eat?
    In several books and TV shows, there have been characters who say "et" instead of "ate" (As in, "I et dinner yesterday at 6:00") I looked it up on Wiktionary, which defines it but doesn't say where it's used: et (colloquial or dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of eat
  • Should ate and eight be pronounced exactly alike?
    Not necessarily In BrE, ate is sometimes pronounced et , and the Cambridge Dictionary gives this pronunciation Even if ate is pronounced like eight, there may well be subtle differences In AmE, ate and eight appear to be pronounced the same However, if you are learning English, I would recommend that you pronounce them both the same ( eɪt )
  • grammar - Have ever eaten or Ever ate - English Language Usage . . .
    You can say it's the best steak you ever ate, or the best steak you've ever eaten They both mean the same thing The use of "ever" makes it clear that you mean the time period being discussed is the entirety of your existence to date
  • speech - Is you ate? an acceptable form to ask the question in spoken . . .
    or "You eat X?" All forms of the question use the verb's infinitive, not its past tense form The question cannot be *"(You) Ate X?" So in each of the above cases the verb is not in the past tense form, but in some other form Even informal short forms of the question don't use the past tense form The only way I can see "You ate?"
  • etymology - What is the origin of the 7 8 9 joke? - English Language . . .
    Because 7 ate 9 — Gina D'Amato, 9, Milltown … As I'm of a certain age, I tend to blame all jokes like this on the anonymous geniuses at Dixie Cup Corporation, who produced a line of riddle cups in the 1970s, and again in the 1990s
  • How to ask if a person has done had breakfast?
    It would usually be either “Did you have breakfast?” or “Have you had breakfast?” Also fine are “Did you eat… ?” and “Have you eaten… ?”





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