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sake | slake |

As a noun sake

is sake, (japanese rice wine).

As a verb slake is

.

sake

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at soke, soken, seek.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Cause, interest or account.
  • * For the sake of argument
  • Purpose or end; reason.
  • * For old times' sake
  • The benefit or regard of someone or something.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake , and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis,
  • (obsolete except in phrases) Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.
  • * And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. — Genesis 3:17
    • Usage notes
    * The word sake is generally used in constructions of the form "for X's sake" or "for the sake of X", where X is a noun. (See the quotations above, for sake of, and for the sake of.) * Garner's Modern American Usage'' notes it is common to write an apostrophe rather than apostrophe–ess in this construction when the noun ends in an /s/ or /z/ sound: ''for appearance' sake, for goodness' sake .
    Derived terms
    * for Christ’s sake * for fuck's sake * for God’s sake * for heaven’s sake * for sake of * for the sake of * for the sake of it * keepsake

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , any alcoholic drink.

    Alternative forms

    * ', ' saki

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia)
  • (countable and uncountable) Rice wine, a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice.
    • Synonyms
    * rice wine

    See also

    * awamori * shochu

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    slake

    English

    Verb

    (slak)
  • *Sir (c.1569-1626)
  • *:When the body's strongest sinews slake .
  • *:
  • *:wherfor the quene waxed wroth with sir Launcelot / and vpon a day she called sir launcelot vnto her chamber and saide thus / Sir launcelot I see and fele dayly that thy loue begynneth to slake / for thou hast no Ioye to be in my presence / but euer thou arte oute of thys Courte
  • To go out; to become extinct.
  • *(Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
  • *:His flame did slake .
  • (label) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires); to quench; to extinguish.
  • *
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:slake the heavenly fire
  • (label) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
  • *1961 , (Lawrence Durrell), , p.14:
  • *:Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water.
  • (label) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
  • :
  • (label) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
  • :

    • Derived terms

    * slaked * slake trough

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