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4-letter words (4 found)

ABET,BATE,BEAT,BETA,

3-letter words (9 found)

ATE,BAE,BAT,BET,EAT,ETA,TAB,TAE,TEA,

2-letter words (9 found)

AB,AE,AT,BA,BE,EA,ET,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 23 words from bate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bate

bate abte btae tbae atbe tabe baet abet beat ebat aebt eabt btea tbea beta ebta teba etba ateb taeb aetb eatb teab etab

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Definitions and meaning of bate

bate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt
  • Homophone: bait

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English baten (“to abate”), an aphetic form of abaten.

Verb

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
  2. (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
  3. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
  4. (archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
  5. To waste away.
  6. To deprive of.
  7. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
  8. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
Derived terms
  • with bated breath
Translations

References

  • Robert Hunter, Charles Morris, editors (1897), Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 1, page 459

Etymology 2

  • Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate.
  • Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere.

Noun

bate (uncountable)

  1. Strife; contention.
Translations

Verb

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

  1. (intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
  2. (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
Translations

See also

  • (to contend or strive with blows or arguments): bait.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”).

Noun

bate (plural bates)

  1. An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
  2. A vat which contains this liquid.
Translations

Verb

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

  1. (transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
Translations

References

  • Robert Hunter, Charles Morris, editors (1897), Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 1, page 459

Etymology 4

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).

Verb

bate

  1. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past of beat; = beat.
Translations

Etymology 5

Clipping of masturbate.

Verb

bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To masturbate.
Translations

Anagrams

  • Beta, Teba, abet, beat, beta

Asturian

Noun

bate m (plural bates)

  1. bat (club)

Crow

Alternative forms

  • boté / baté / badé

Noun

bate

  1. male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman

See also

  • two-spirit
  • bacheé, bía

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bate

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of baten

Noun

bate

  1. (archaic) dative singular of baat

Anagrams

  • beat

Galician

Verb

bate

  1. inflection of bater:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Garo

Alternative forms

  • bati

Etymology

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Postposition

bate

  1. (follows dative case -na) more than

Gonja

Etymology

Gikyode bangadɛ, Chumburung bɔŋko̱rɔŋ.

Noun

bate (plural abate)

  1. civet
    Synonym: jaba

Khumi Chin

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba˥.te˧/

Noun

bate

  1. swelling

Derived terms

  • bakungte

References

  • K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎[1], Payap University, page 74

Kitanemuk

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa. Cognate with Serrano bate.

Noun

bāte

  1. water

References

  • Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81

Latin

Noun

bate

  1. vocative singular of batus

Lindu

Noun

bate

  1. gravestone

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

bate

  1. Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

Etymology 2

Verb

bate

  1. Alternative form of baten (“to beat”)

Etymology 3

Verb

bate

  1. Alternative form of baten (“to abate”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -at͡ʃi, (Portugal) -atɨ
  • Hyphenation: ba‧te

Verb

bate

  1. inflection of bater:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin battere, from earlier battuere. Compare Aromanian bat. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈba.te/
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Hyphenation: ba‧te

Verb

a bate (third-person singular present bate, past participle bătut) 3rd conj.

  1. (transitive) to beat (repeatedly hit for various purposes)
    a bate la ușă ― to knock on the door
    a bate untul ― to churn butter
    a bate la tălpi ― to administer a foot whipping
    a bate la mașină ― to type on a typewriter
  2. (transitive or reciprocal) to beat (give a beating)
  3. (transitive, colloquial) to defeat
    Synonyms: învinge, înfrânge
  4. (intransitive, of the heart) to beat
  5. (transitive, of the wind) to blow

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (give a beating): cafti (slang), mardi (slang), cotonogi (slang)

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • bate in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

bate (Cyrillic spelling бате)

  1. vocative singular of bat

Serrano

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

Noun

bāte

  1. water

References

  • Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbate/ [ˈba.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Syllabification: ba‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bat.

Noun

bate m (plural bates)

  1. (sports) bat

Etymology 2

Noun

bate m (plural bates)

  1. (Honduras, slang) reefer, joint (a marijuana cigarette)
    Synonyms: canuto, (Honduras) carruco, (Honduras) leño, porro, (Chile) pito

Etymology 3

Verb

bate

  1. inflection of batir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “bate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French batre, from Late Latin battō, battere, alternative form of Latin battuō, battuere (“beat, pound; fight”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bat/

Verb

bate

  1. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fight

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