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Cates vs Cites - What's the difference?

cates | cites |

As nouns the difference between cates and cites

is that cates is provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties while cites is plural of cite;|lang=en; citations.

As a verb cites is

third-person singular of cite.

cates

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • (archaic) Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.
  • * (Shakespeare)
  • * Churchill
    • Cates for which Apicius could not pay.
  • * Robert Browning
    • Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth.
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    cites

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • ; citations

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (cite)
    • ----