Satay vs Sate - What's the difference?
satay | sate | Alternative forms |
A popular dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and served with a spicy peanut sauce, originating from Indonesia and Malaysia.
To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
* Macaulay
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(dated) (sit)
Sate is a descendant of satay.
Sate is a alternative form of satay.
As nouns the difference between satay and sate
is that satay is a popular dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and served with a spicy peanut sauce, originating from Indonesia and Malaysia while sate is satay.As a verb sate is
to satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.satay
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Alternative forms
* satai * * sateNoun
(en noun)External links
* (wikipedia "satay") ----sate
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* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From earlier sate, . More at (l).Verb
(sat)- At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated .
- crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities
- And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
Usage notes
Used interchangeably with, though less common than, satiate.“Monthly Gleanings: November 2011]: Sate'' versus ''satiated''.”, ''[http://blog.oup.com/ OUPblog