Kate vs Skate - What's the difference?
kate | skate |
A medieval pet form of Catherine and related names. Also used as a formal female given name.
* ~~1594 William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew : Act II, Scene I:
* 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
* 1944 A.J.Cronin: The Green Years .Little, Brown, and Company, 1944. page 62:
A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
abbreviated form of ice skate or roller skate
The act of skateboarding
The act of roller skating or ice skating
To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
To skateboard
A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays]]) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding , and wide [[fin#Noun, fins attached to a flat body.
As an adjective kate
is .As a verb skate is
.kate
English
(wikipedia Kate)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Petruchio .Good morrow, Kate ; for that's your name, I hear.
- Katharina .Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing: / They call me Katharine that do talk of me.
- Petruchio''.You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate''', / And bonny '''Kate''', and sometimes ' Kate the curst;
- A great number of children, amongst the lower classes, are Carolines. - - - A clergyman in my neighbourhood used to mistake the sound, and christen the babies Catharine; - a wise error, for Kate is a noble abbreviation.
- "And I have such a horrible name. Think of it... Kate . Who would take Kate on a Moonlight Cruise...or out to the Minstrels at the point. If you ever do find me in the company of a strange young man, call me Irene. Promise me."
Anagrams
* * English diminutives of female given names ----skate
English
Etymology 1
.Noun
(en noun)- There's time for a quick skate before dinner.
- The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.