Sat vs Sate - What's the difference?
sat | sate |
(sit)
To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
* Macaulay
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(dated) (sit)
As verbs the difference between sat and sate
is that sat is past tense of sit while sate is to satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.As nouns the difference between sat and sate
is that sat is satellite while sate is satay.As a proper noun SAT
is SAT Reasoning Test (formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test): a national exam taken annually by high school juniors and seniors.As an abbreviation Sat
is abbreviation of Saturday|lang=en.sat
English
Verb
(head)- I sat in the middle of the park.
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), , (l), (l) English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms ----sate
English
Alternative forms
* (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