Skate vs Heterocercal - What's the difference?
skate | heterocercal |
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.
(ichthyology) Of a fish's tail, such that the vertebral column bends and extends upwards into the upper lobe of the tail, making it larger than the lower lobe; as in sharks, rays, and skates.
As a noun skate
is 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.As a verb skate
is to move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.As an adjective heterocercal is
of a fish's tail, such that the vertebral column bends and extends upwards into the upper lobe of the tail, making it larger than the lower lobe; as in sharks, rays, and skates.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.