9 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) 2.0 [wn]:
eat
v 1: take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you
eat for dinner last night?"
2: eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M.
because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat
yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
3: take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat
certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" [syn: {feed}]
4: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of
gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20
bottles of wine a week" [syn: {consume}, {eat up}, {use up},
{deplete}, {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}]
5: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating
you?" [syn: {eat on}]
6: cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an
acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping
of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" [syn: {corrode},
{rust}]
[also: {eaten}, {ate}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Ate
n : goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ate
See {eat}
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
ATE
Asynchronous Terminal Emulation (Banyan, VINES)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
ATE
ATM Terminating Equipment (SONET, ATM)