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fate

noun
/feɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.

  1. derived from fāta
  2. inherited from fate

Definitions

  1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

  2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

  3. An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Destiny

      Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

      • Accept your fate.

    2. Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of…

      Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

    3. The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.

      • It’s important to research chemical fate because chemical fate is the best tool we have for understanding and managing human health risks or environmental damage caused by chemical release.

    4. The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo,…

      The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint

    5. To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

      • The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
      • Before they met, Rebecca Guberman and Jennifer Jako were both certain they were fated to be alone.
      • At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.

    6. Any one of the Fates.

    7. A personification of fate (the cause that predetermines events).

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Derived

as fate would have it, cheat fate, fatal, fatalism, fatality, fated, fate-fraught, fatefraught, fateful, fateless, fatelike, fate map, fatesome, fickle finger of fate, fucked by the fickle finger of fate, leave someone to their fate, quirk of fate, red string of fate, seal someone's fate, sure as fate, tempt fate, twist of fate

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fate. 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.

01fate02principle03moral04judgment05judging06judg07judge

A definitional loop anchored at fate. 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 fate

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