English Explanatory Dictionary

skate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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. The act of skateboarding
  5. The act of roller skating or ice skating
  6. A makeshift handcar.
verb
  1. To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
  2. To skateboard.
  3. To use the skating technique.
  4. To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
  5. To move smoothly and easily.
adj
  1. Pertaining to the technique of skating.
noun
  1. 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.
noun
  1. A worn-out horse.
  2. Alternative form of skite (“a mean or contemptible person”).
name
  1. The ship of characters James "Sawyer" Ford and Kate Austen from the television series Lost.

Pronunciation

/skeɪt/ en-us-skate.ogg

Word forms

skate skates skating skated

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”).

Derived words

bobskate clap skate figure skate flapper skate get one's skates on hockey skate ice-skate in-line skate outskate overskate parlour skate quad skate rink skate roller-skate skateability skateable skate around skate-around skateathon skateboard skate by skatecore Skategate skate key skateless skatemobile skate on skate one's lane skate on thin ice skate over skatepark skatepunk skate punk skater skateshop skate skiing skateway skatewear skitch speedskate unskated wakeskate barndoor skate bottlenose skate fanskate ghost skate mavis skate mud skate skatefish skatelike cheapskate labor skate
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