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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