ate
verb
simple past tense of eat.
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- past tense form of eat.
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Atenounan ancient Greek goddess personifying the fatal blindness or recklessness that produces crime and the divine punishment that follows it.
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ATEequipment that makes a series of tests automatically.
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-atea suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution paralleling that of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate ). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate ) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate ). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin: calibrate; acierate .
ate
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[eyt, et]
/ eɪt, ɛt /
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Ate
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[ey-tee, ah-tee]
/ ˈeɪ ti, ˈɑ ti /
noun
ATE
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-ate
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suffix
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(forming adjectives) possessing; having the appearance or characteristics of
fortunate
palmate
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(forming nouns) a chemical compound, esp a salt or ester of an acid
carbonate
stearate
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(forming nouns) the product of a process
condensate
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forming verbs from nouns and adjectives
hyphenate
rusticate
-ate
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suffix
Ate
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/ ˈɑːtɪ, ˈeɪtɪ /
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/ eɪt, ɛt /
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Etymology
Origin of Ate2
< Greek, special use of átē reckless impulse, ruin, akin to aáein to mislead, harm
Origin of ATE3
a(utomatic) t(est) e(quipment)
Origin of -ate4
< Latin -ātus (masculine), -āta (feminine), -ātum (neuter), equivalent to -ā- thematic vowel + -tus, -ta, -tum past participle suffix
Origin of -ate5
Probably originally in New Latin phrases, as plumbum acetātum salt produced by the action of acetic acid on lead
Origin of -ate6
< Latin -ātus (genitive -ātūs ), generalized from v. derivatives, as augurātus office of an augur ( augurā(re) to foretell by augury + -tus suffix of v. action), construed as derivative of augur augur 1
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Once we started working together, I quickly learned that the pace and demands of her life pulled at nearly every domain, including how she ate.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
"We really went all out. Then we flew around in a circle, talked with the family, ate good food," Klopp said.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Every six months, participants recorded everything they ate and drank during a three-day period.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
At the Sunday reception, the couple had their first dance, with Bettina Trump wearing her wedding dress, and ate a five-tier wedding cake topped with a miniature bride and groom.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
I built a fire in the cooker and fed the dogs part of their food and ate some of my own.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
"Like Ate Alex, I want to win at Wimbledon, WTA, and various tournaments around the world," Torrecampo said, referring to Eala with the Filipino word for elder sister.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
On the final page of “The Snakes That Ate Florida,” Mr. Frazier invokes another great scribbler, E.B.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
A trip to the aquarium yields “The Man Who Ate the Crab.”
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
“Yeah, people are really going to hate her next book, ‘Kristi Noem: Then I Ate It.’”
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
We called him The Boy Who Ate Beans, but as far as I know he never ate beans again.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
The former farmhouse had been sold in July by Marston's to ATE Farms Limited.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023
It had been sold by brewers Marston's to ATE Farms Limited in July, just weeks before the demolition took place.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2023
The pub, known for its sloping walls and floor due to mining subsidence in the area, was bought from Marston's by ATE Farms Limited in July.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2023
La-Salle Elementary School, an ATE language academy, received 1,000 applicants for 450 slots.
From Time Magazine Archive
ATE in the afternoon Rodney strolled up the East River wharves.
From The Runaway The Adventures of Rodney Roverton by Unknown
Note that there is a system for naming some polyatomic ions; -ate and -ite are suffixes designating polyatomic ions containing more or fewer oxygen atoms.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Nodulose -us -ate: with small nodes or nodules: a surface sculpture of knots or links, connected by an undulating line.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
A ternary acid with the termination -ic gives a salt with the name ending in -ate, while an acid with termination -ous gives a salt with the name ending in -ite.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson
Verb Suffixes -ate -fy -ise -ize = to make; render; perform an act.
From New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words by William Swinton
Elongata -ate: drawn out; lengthened; much longer than wide.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
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