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skate

noun
/skeɪt/

Etymology

Back-formation from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schāetse, from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”) (compare French échasse and English scatch), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), related to *skakan (“to shake, swing”).

  1. derived from *skakkjā✻ — “stilt”
  2. derived from schāetse
  3. derived from schaats

Definitions

  1. A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made…

    A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.

  2. Ellipsis of ice skate.

  3. Ellipsis of roller skate.

  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. The act of skateboarding

      • There's time for a quick skate before dinner.

    2. The act of roller skating or ice skating

      • The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.

    3. A makeshift handcar.

    4. To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.

    5. To skateboard.

    6. To use the skating technique.

    7. To get away with something

      To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.

    8. To move smoothly and easily.

      • Addressing a short pass from Henderson, he always felt too smart for Mykola Matviyenko, taking a step to lure him one way; dropping his shoulder and skating in the other direction, further inside.

    9. Pertaining to the technique of skating.

    10. A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas.…

      A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body.

      • Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.
      • I opt for skate, which comes with a Champagne sauce, and a glass of Californian Pinot Gris.

    11. A worn-out horse.

    12. Alternative form of skite (“a mean or contemptible person”).

    13. The ship of characters James "Sawyer" Ford and Kate Austen from the television series…

      The ship of characters James "Sawyer" Ford and Kate Austen from the television series Lost.

      • But 'Skate' fans ended the series quite disappointed in him, as it seems that even after leaving with Kate, they couldn't be together.
      • (I've never subscribed to either of the Kate ships on the show, but even I was almost a Skate convert in that moment.)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at skate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at skate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at skate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA