Argue vs Bate - What's the difference?
argue | bate |
(obsolete) To prove.
To shows grounds for concluding ((that)); to indicate, imply.
* 1910 , , "The Soul of Laploshka", Reginald in Russia :
To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.
To have an argument, a quarrel.
To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).
To reduce the force of something; to abate.
* Dryden
To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation; as, with bated breath .
(transitive, sometimes, figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
* Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue :
* Holland
(archaic) To leave out, except, bar.
* 1610 , , act 2, scene 1:
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To waste away.
* 1597 , , act 3, scene 3:
To deprive of.
* Herbert
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
* John Locke
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
* South
Strife; contention.
* 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2 :
* 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (Arabian Nights)
* 1911, H.G. Wells, The New Machiavelli :
To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
(falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
A vat which contains this liquid.
To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
(nonstandard) (beat); = beat.
* 2008 October 20th, , episode 5: “The Euclid Alternative”
(slang) To masturbate.
As verbs the difference between argue and bate
is that argue is while bate is .argue
English
Verb
(argu)- To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.
- He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.
- He argued as follows: America should stop Lend-Lease convoying, because it needs to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
- The two boys argued because of disagreement about the science project.
- He argued his point.
- He argued that America should stop Lend-Lease convoying because it needed to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
Derived terms
* argie-bargie * argle-bargle * arguable * argue the toss * arguer * argy-bargyExternal links
* *Anagrams
* English reporting verbs ----bate
English
Etymology 1
Aphetic from (abate).Verb
(bat)- Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine.
- He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
- About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare.
- (Sebastian) "Bate , I beseech you, widow Dido."
- Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood, / He lies that says it.
- (Falstaff) "Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? do I not bate ? do I not dwindle?"
- When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake.
- He must either bate the labourer's wages, or not employ or not pay him.
- to whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament
References
* 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.Etymology 2
* Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun (debate). * Verb: From Anglo-Saxon = contention. From (etyl) batre (French battre). From batere.Noun
(-)- ... and wears his boots very smooth, like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no bate with telling of discreet stories;
- So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing;
- The other merely needs jealousy and bate , of which there are great and easily accessible reservoirs in every human heart.
Verb
(bat)- (Francis Bacon)
See also
* (to contend or strive with blows or arguments) bait.Etymology 3
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(bat)References
* 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.Etymology 4
Formed by analogy with eat ? ate, with which it shares an analogous past participle (eaten ? beaten).Verb
(head)- . Goodnight.