skate.

  • 41skate — English has two words skate. The older is the fish name [14], which was borrowed from Old Norse skata. Skate used for gliding over ice [17] comes from an Old French word for ‘stilt’ – eschasse. Its northern dialect form was escase. This was… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 42skate — skate1 noun 1》 an ice skate or roller skate. 2》 a wheeled device used to move a heavy or unwieldy object. verb 1》 move on ice skates or roller skates.     ↘ride on a skateboard. 2》 (skate over/round/around) pass over or refer only fleetingly to… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 43skate — English has two words skate. The older is the fish name [14], which was borrowed from Old Norse skata. Skate used for gliding over ice [17] comes from an Old French word for ‘stilt’ – eschasse. Its northern dialect form was escase. This was… …

    Word origins

  • 44skate — Actividad recreativa, popular entre los jóvenes, en que las personas van de pie sobre una pequeña tabla con ruedas para deslizarse, tratando de mantener el equilibrio. El skate apareció a principios de la década de 1960 en zonas pavimentadas de… …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 45Skate — This unusual surname is of Northern English origin, and derives from the Old Norse byname Skjote , meaning Swift, Fleet . The name dates from the Scandinavian settlement of northern and western areas of England before the 10th Century. The… …

    Surnames reference

  • 46skate — 1 noun 1 (C) one of a pair of boots with metal blades on the bottom, for moving quickly on ice; ice­skate2 2 (C) one of a pair of boots or frames with small wheels on the bottom, for moving quickly on flat smooth surfaces; roller skate 3 (C, U)… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 47skate — 1. n. & v. n. 1 each of a pair of steel blades (or of boots with blades attached) for gliding on ice. 2 (in full roller skate) each of a pair of metal frames with small wheels, fitted to shoes for riding on a hard surface. 3 a device on which a… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 48skate — noun Skate is used before these nouns: ↑park, ↑shoe, ↑spot Skate is used after these nouns: ↑hockey, ↑ice …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 49skate — Synonyms and related words: Reptilia, bloke, boy, buck, chap, coast, fellow, flit, flow, fly, gent, gentleman, glide, glissade, guy, ice skates, ice skate, man, roller skates, roller skate, sail, sideslip, skateboard, skates, ski, skid, skim,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 50skate — n. 1) an ice; roller skate 2) a pair of skates * * * [skeɪt] roller skate a pair of skates an ice …

    Combinatory dictionary