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ate    音标拼音: ['et]
vbl. 吃

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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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  • 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
  • What is the origin of the 7 8 9 joke? - English Language Usage . . .
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  • meaning - I just ate them and Ive just eaten them — Whats the . . .
    The answer is that "I have just eaten them" is normal in British and I think US usage, but "I just ate them" is not normal in British use, or at any rate wasn't until recently (except in the different sense of mplungjan's answer) The aspectual difference between the simple past and the present perfect is that the perfect is used for past-with-present-relevance, the simple past for, well
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    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
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    4 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
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    1 I don't know about a process, but the difference in pronunciation can be interpreted as resulting from -ate verbs all having some kind of stress* on the last syllable, while -ate nouns or adjectives can have a fully unstressed last syllable
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    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
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    Is "Have ever eaten" correct or do I have to use the past simple "I ever ate", since the process (of eating) is already over If I won't refer to any date in the past, which tense is the correct one? Nonetheless, "Have ever eaten" sounds correct to me But sometimes the usage of past simple and simple perfect just confuses me
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  • 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… ?” If it is — say — mid-morning, and you want to know if someone has already eaten today, then “Have you had eaten breakfast?” (possibly “…yet?”) is probably the more natural form (since they might still have the breakfast in





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