Amate vs Agate - What's the difference?
amate | agate |
Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.
(label) To dishearten, dismay.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* , I.i:
* 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, xii:
* , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230:
* c.1815 , (John Keats), "To Chatterton":
(obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.
(countable, uncountable, mineral) A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
(uncountable, US, printing) 5.5-point size of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
(countable, obsolete) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
(countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
(slang, usually in plural) A testicle.
(obsolete) On the way; agoing.
As a noun amate
is paper produced from the bark of adult ficus trees.As a verb amate
is (label) to dishearten, dismay or amate can be (obsolete) to be a mate to; to match.As a proper noun agate is
.amate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) papel .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) amater, amatir.Verb
(amat)- The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.
- Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate , / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?
- Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.
- For the last, he will be much amazed, he will be much amated .
- Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate .
Etymology 3
.Verb
(amat)- (Spenser)
Anagrams
* ----agate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) agathe, from (etyl) .Noun
Synonyms
* (printing) ruby (Britain)Hyponyms
* (mineralogy) fortification agate, Scotch pebble; moss agate, clouded agateDerived terms
* moss agate * agate line * agatewareEtymology 2
Adverb
(-)- to be agate'''; to set the bells '''agate
- (Cotgrave)