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Cade vs Cate - What's the difference?

cade | cate |

As proper nouns the difference between cade and cate

is that cade is {{surname|A=An|English metonymic occupational|from=occupations}} for a cooper while Cate is a diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms; more often spelled Kate.

As nouns the difference between cade and cate

is that cade is a prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, species: Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar while cate is a delicacy or item of food.

As an adjective cade

is abandoned by its mother and reared by hand.

As a verb cade

is to bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.

cade

English

Alternative forms

* rare: Caide, Kade, Kayde

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • for a cooper.
  • * ,Scene IV:
  • Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge; / The citizens fly and forsake their houses; / The rascal people, thirsting after prey, / Join with the traitor;
  • transferred from the surname.
  • * 1936 , Gone With the Wind , Read Books 2008, ISBN 1443719587, page 26:
  • They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me.

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    cate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
  • * 1590s , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , First Folio 1623, Act I:
  • Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates , and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation [...].
  • * 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:
  • Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?
  • * 1820 , (John Keats), The Eve of St. Agnes , l. 172-3:
  • All cates and dainties shall be storèd there / Quickly on this feast-night
  • * 1985 , (Anthony Burgess), Kingdom of the Wicked :
  • He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.
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