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ate 音标拼音: ['et] vbl. 吃 吃 Ate n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishmentAte \ Ate\ (?; 277), the preterit of { Eat}. [ 1913 Webster]
Ate \ A" te\, n. [ Gr. ?.] ( Greek. Myth.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance. [ 1913 Webster]
- 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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). [ 1913 Webster] 3. As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. -- Ps. cvi. 28. [ 1913 Webster] The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. -- Gen. xli. 20. [ 1913 Webster] The lion had not eaten the carcass. -- 1 Kings xiii. 28. [ 1913 Webster] With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] |
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