What (who) is -ate - definition
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-ate
·- As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate.
II. -ate ·- As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.
III. -ate ·- 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).
IV. -ate ·- 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.
-ate
-ate1
¦ suffix forming nouns:
1. denoting status or office: doctorate.
denoting a state or function: mandate.
2. denoting a group: electorate.
3. Chemistry denoting a salt or ester, especially of an acid with a corresponding name ending in -ic: chlorate.
4. denoting a product of a chemical process: condensate.
Origin
from OFr. -at or L. -atus, -ata, -atum.
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-ate2
¦ suffix
1. forming adjectives and nouns such as associate.
2. forming adjectives from Latin: caudate.
Origin
from L. -atus, -ata, -atum.
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-ate3
¦ suffix forming verbs such as fascinate.
Origin
from -ate2; orig. on the basis of past participial adjectives ending in -atus, later extended to Latin verbs ending in -are and French verbs ending in -er.
ATE
Asynchronous Terminal Emulation (Reference: Banyan, VINES)
Pronunciation examples for -ate
1. ate.
Mission Street Food _ Anthony Myint & Karen Leibowitz _ Talks at Google
2. He ate fabric. He ate things, recyclables.
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3. "Eel ate."
Temple Grandin (2010)
4. ate up --
The Lost Girls _ Holly Corbett & Amanda Pressner _ Talks at Google
5. ate together.
Origins of Settled Life _ Ian Hodder _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of -ate
1. "For the next ten months we just ate and ate and ate," Irene laughed.
2. "We ate and ate and ate, and still had some to go home," she said.
3. They ate their animals, then they ate their dead.
4. If I was sad I ate, if I was happy I ate, if I was lonely I ate.
5. When he was upset, he ate, when he was happy he ate.