7  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ate  \A"te\,  n.  [Gr.  ?.]  (Greek.  Myth.) 
  The  goddess  of  mischievous  folly;  also  in  later  poets,  the 
  goddess  of  vengeance. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ate  \Ate\  (?;  277), 
  the  preterit  of  {Eat}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  -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. 
 
  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). 
 
  3.  As  a  noun  suffix,  it  marks  the  agent;  as  curate, 
  delegate.  It  also  sometimes  marks  the  office  or  dignity; 
  as  tribunate. 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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  ["a]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. 
 
  They  .  .  .  ate  the  sacrifices  of  the  dead.  --Ps. 
  cvi.  28. 
 
  The  lean  .  .  .  did  eat  up  the  first  seven  fat  kine. 
  --Gen.  xli. 
  20. 
 
  The  lion  had  not  eaten  the  carcass.  --1  Kings 
  xiii.  28. 
 
  With  stories  told  of  many  a  feat,  How  fairy  Mab  the 
  junkets  eat.  --Milton. 
 
  The  island  princes  overbold  Have  eat  our  substance. 
  --Tennyson. 
 
  His  wretched  estate  is  eaten  up  with  mortgages. 
  --Thackeray. 
 
  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. 
 
  {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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Ate 
  n  :  goddess  of  criminal  rashness  and  its  punishment  [syn:  {Ate}] 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  ATE 
  Asynchronous  Terminal  Emulation  (Banyan,  VINES) 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  ATE 
  ATM  Terminating  Equipment  (SONET,  ATM) 
 
 

browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
or search   thesauri dictionary search words