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Pate vs Cate - What's the difference?

pate | cate |

As nouns the difference between pate and cate

is that pate is while cate is castle.

pate

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (attested since around 1200), perhaps a shortened form of (etyl) patene'' or .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (somewhat, archaic) The head, particularly the top or crown.
    • He had a shiny, bald pate .
  • (archaic) Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
  • * 1598 , , by Shakespeare
    • I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast:
    The mind shall banquet, though the body pine:
    Fat paunches have lean pates , and dainty bits
    Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.
  • * 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
    • I thank thee for that jest: here's a garment
    for't: wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of
    this country: 'Steal by line and level,' is an excellent
    pass of pate : there's another garment for't.
    Derived terms
    * pated
    See also
    * capital

    Etymology 2

    Attested since circa 1700, from (etyl) , from (etyl) paste'', ''pastée .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finely-ground paste of meat, fish, etc.)
  • The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.

    • Anagrams

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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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