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skate1

nounPlural skates skeɪtskeɪt
  • 1An ice skate or roller skate.

    冰鞋;旱冰鞋

    everyone was on skates
    Example sentencesExamples
    • On in-line skates, the brake is in the back of the skate instead of the front, such as on roller-skates.
    • Celina put on her skates and skated onto the ice.
    • He dropped out of school at 17 to try his hand at acting, doing different jobs, including sharpening skates at an ice rink, until he found theatre work.
    • All of this fresh air and warm sunshine has had me feeling pretty frisky on my skates.
    • What do you do with your skates and costumes at the end of the season, do you keep them at home?
    • Fiera fidgeted nervously as she walked towards the local skating rink, skates in hand.
    • They look like a cross between a pair of aggressive skates and a pair of training skates.
    • He couldn't even put on a pair of skates for five weeks.
    • The talented youngster first put on skates when he was five.
    • These are great skates for anyone who is serious about fitness on skates and loves to go fast.
    • The left skate goes in front for left parallel turns, the right skate for right turns.
    • Find yourself an ice skating rink, and while whipping around on rental skates, check out your fellow skaters.
    • Frustrated at the lack of facilities on offer to them, young people in Portlaoise took matters into their own hands last week and set up their own skate and rollerblading club.
    • He also took gymnastics for a few years and can do a back flip on skates, partly as a result of his pole-vaulting experience.
    • My feet did begin to hurt some after a while, but I do think that is normal when adjusting to new skates.
    • Lift the other skate and advance it just enough so you can set the heel wheel down next to your arch.
    • So when we would finish cruising for the day, I would take off on my skates and explore.
    • There are still a lot of people who own skates and use them from time to time.
    • Straighten up and narrow the gap between your skates to continue rolling in the new direction.
    • I could bring my skates and skate around too, but I would only get myself pummeled by the varsity team, if they got out of hand.
    1. 1.1
      short for skateboard
    2. 1.2 A device, typically with wheels on the underside, used to move a heavy or unwieldy object.
      (载笨重物的)滑板车
verbskates skeɪtskeɪt
[no object]
  • 1Move on ice skates or roller skates in a gliding fashion.

    滑冰;溜冰

    the boys were skating on the ice

    男孩子们在冰上溜冰。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Karam comes from a skating family and began skating when she was three years old.
    • Sophie started skating at the Altrincham Ice Rink four years ago, and was devastated when it was closed in April.
    • Figure skating includes four disciplines - singles men and ladies skating, pairs skating, and ice dancing.
    • They kept good speed throughout the program, skated with flow and confidence.
    • Aureli began skating when she was six and started competing in dance at eight.
    • I skated up and down my sloped neighborhood streets, analyzing the sources of my anxiety and how to relieve them.
    • Gregory skated in singles up to the national level in novice ladies.
    • John, who is two years younger than his sister, also began skating when he was nine.
    • The two-time World Junior bronze medalists skated close together.
    • We skated with and met lots of new fools over the past two months.
    • He skates for four hours a day, five days a week, and sometimes another two hours on Saturday.
    • Buys was a late starter in skating, not taking to the ice until she was nine.
    • I told my mother I wanted to ice skate, but she didn't skate, and she was afraid to take me out on the ice.
    • People in London regard in line skating as a recreational sport more than anything else.
    • We sat on the mezzanine floor where I was amazed by the sight of hip young waiters as they literally skated by, on roller skates, while balancing laden trays in their hands.
    • Now it's a gorgeous day and we should be able to attract lots of good attention as we skate down the coast.
    • These are definitely the most comfortable skates I have ever skated in.
    • She walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, and then put on her rollerblades to skate up to work on 34th Street, about four miles way from here.
    • Racers may scoff, but both Liz and I feel that a heel brake is required for safe street skating.
    • I started skating in a toddler and parent class at the Skating Club of Wilmington.
    Synonyms
    glide, drift, float, flow, slide, slip, sweep, skim, coast, breeze, flit
    1. 1.1with object Perform (a specified figure) on skates.
      滑出,溜出(花样)
      double-eight figures skated entirely on one foot

      双八字形溜冰完全靠一只脚滑行。

    2. 1.2 Ride on a skateboard.
      踩滑板
  • 2skate over/round/aroundPass over or refer only fleetingly to (a subject or problem)

    〈喻〉一带而过,略微触及(主题,问题)

    she seemed to skate over the next part of her story

    她似乎对她故事的下一部分一带而过。

    Synonyms
    mention briefly, make only brief mention of, pass over quickly, skate over, gloss over
  • 3skate throughMake quick and easy progress through.

    〈喻〉一蹴而就

    he admits he had expected to skate through the system

    他承认他一直期望通过这个系统轻松取得进展。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Given the politics of the Supreme Court right now, there was no one - no one - who was going to skate through this nomination.
    • Doctor Zane was right, Alex did prefer to skate through the majority of his life and ignore the less pleasant aspects.
    • If he'd truly been this ignorant about Jeff's attitude and Franklin's integrity, there was no telling what else he'd been skating through without a clue as to how bad things really were.
    • I'm not happy to be some yes man and skate through my career without making something meaningful of it for myself, and more importantly others.
    • I manage to skate through several dozen questions about Ethan without exposing any sensitive aspects of myself or my mission.
    • It's not an intrinsically bad thing - after all, it helped me skate through grade school and high school with a minimum of effort.
    • I'm betting a well-paid lawyer will help them skate through the legal system with the prowess of a large corporation…
    • He recently moved to Los Angeles and attended Hollywood's Musicians Institute, skating through the program in just six months.
    • We're taking it as a foregone conclusion that Dean is going to skate through the primaries unscathed.
    • It really let me skate through a large amount of the battles that I faced in the beginning of the game without even so much as a scratch at times.

Phrases

  • get one's skates on

    • informal Hurry up.

      I'll tell him to get his skates on
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The polls close on the 4th of September, with the winning painting announced on the Today programme on the 5th, so get your skates on, get out there, vote early and vote often here till closing date!
      • l With just 22 days until Christmas, it really is time to get your skates on to enjoy some outdoor festive fun at the recently opened Glasgow On Ice event in George Square.
      • I'd better get my skates on and finish the third Harry Potter book tomorrow or I'll be torn between the two.
      • Women wanting to take part in this year's Race for Life in Southampton had better get their skates on as places are filling fast.
      • Those who've not yet seen it would be advised to get their skates on.
      • You'll need to get your skates on though, as the list needs to be compiled and sent by noon tomorrow.
      • Tickets are selling well for this concert so get your skates on!
      • If this doesn't make the boss get his skates on and decide to go ahead and print it, I don't know what will.
      • You'll have to get your skates on though, as the cut-off date for Valentine meal deliveries is 3pm today.
      • Although 2,000 places are still available for the run the town's first half-marathon race director Peter Robertson says anyone interested should get their skates on.
      Synonyms
      be quick, hurry up, move quickly, go fast, hasten, make haste, speed, speed up, lose no time, press on, push on, run, dash, rush, hurtle, dart, race, fly, flash, shoot, streak, bolt, bound, blast, charge, chase, career, scurry, scramble, scamper, scuttle, sprint, gallop, go hell for leather, go like lightning

Origin

Mid 17th century (originally as the plural scates): from Dutch schaats (singular but interpreted as plural), from Old French eschasse 'stilt'.

  • Skate as in ice skates was originally written as the plural scates. It comes from Dutch schaats (a singular form but interpreted as plural), from Old French eschasse ‘stilt’. The phrase get one's skates on ‘hurry up’ was originally military slang in the late 19th century.

Rhymes

abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight

skate2

nounPlural skates skeɪtskeɪt
  • 1A typically large marine fish of the ray family with a cartilaginous skeleton and a flattened diamond-shaped body.

    Family Rajidae: numerous species, in particular the commercially valuable Raja batis

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Things like halibut and skate were decidedly strange - a bit like vegetables that swam.
    • After a total of forty minutes of heaving, the skate broke surface by the side of the boat.
    • Mr Wells had hooked a large flatfish which he thought was a skate, but it turned out to be a stingray and it wound its tail round his arm and stuck a four-inch spike into him.
    • The freshwater sawfish, a ray, is related to stingrays, skates, sharks, and other fishes with cartilaginous skeletons.
    • In some areas small skates and dogfish (a small shark species) appear to have taken over the cod's niche in the ecosystem.
    • If cod and haddock are overfished, monkfish and common skate threatened, farmed salmon tainted with dyes and antibiotics and game fish riddled with mercury, what are we meant to eat?
    • From the same family as rays, skates are bottom-dwelling fish usually found in shallow coastal waters.
    • Cod, hake, whiting, mackerel and skate as well as shellfish were pulled from the sea.
    • While a fine food, skate numbers in UK and European waters are very low and this fish is officially recognised as an endangered species.
    1. 1.1mass noun The flesh of a skate or thornback used as food.
      (用做食物的)鳐肉
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
      • We had an amuse-bouche of lobster bisque with skate, a good strong flavour to get the juices flowing.
      • I'll have to get the skate from Boston, and I doubt I'll be able to find any that isn't frozen, but I'll let you know.
      • Like the skate, this more delicate fish was simply perfect.
      • Most recently, a gorgeous wild mushroom truffle soup stood out, along with a generous plate of skate dressed in an intense caper sauce.
      • Delicate skate in a grainy mustard sauce is bolstered by a forceful bed of savoy cabbage and water chestnuts.
      • Melt some butter until it becomes foamy and brown, toss in some capers and lemon juice, and splash it onto the skate with a good grinding of black pepper and some chopped parsley.
      • The cooking possesses an apparent simplicity - but this should fool no one: it takes ten minutes and 30 years to cook a wing of skate to this degree of perfection.
      • Most of the skate sold in fish shops is in fact thornback ray, and in the Southeast the fish has the local name roker.
      • We used to sell mostly skate, cod and rock salmon but now the Chinese want lobster and Dover sole, while the West Indians want snapper.
      • If, like me, you adore the meaty flesh and sweet flavour of fresh skate, and you have not asked your fishmonger to remove the skin, then you will need to resort to the toolbox before dinner.
      • Pan-seared skate's lobsterlike richness is offset by tarragon and grapefruit.
      • Who knew that grilled skate wing went nicely with a hot, red smear of sambal?
      • We ate fish soup, mussels, oysters, skate in brown butter and my aunt's tomato salad.
      • Only skate, a little soggy in white wine and lemon, and skirt steak - which might benefit from marinating or some garlic - don't quite match up.
      • Put the skate into a large, shallow pan and add enough water to cover it.
      • Place each skate fillet in the center; season and spread some basil and olives on top.
      • Throughout the western fjords, a hash of skate is cooked.

Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse skata.

skate3

nounPlural skates skeɪtskeɪt
South African dated, informal
  • An uncouth and disreputable man.

    〈南非,非正式〉声名狼藉的粗鲁白人

    Synonyms
    lout, boor, barbarian, neanderthal, churl, clown, gawk, hulk, bumpkin, yokel

Origin

Late 19th century: of uncertain origin.

skate1

nounskeɪtskāt
  • 1An ice skate or roller skate.

    冰鞋;旱冰鞋

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I could bring my skates and skate around too, but I would only get myself pummeled by the varsity team, if they got out of hand.
    • These are great skates for anyone who is serious about fitness on skates and loves to go fast.
    • There are still a lot of people who own skates and use them from time to time.
    • Fiera fidgeted nervously as she walked towards the local skating rink, skates in hand.
    • Celina put on her skates and skated onto the ice.
    • Straighten up and narrow the gap between your skates to continue rolling in the new direction.
    • The left skate goes in front for left parallel turns, the right skate for right turns.
    • Find yourself an ice skating rink, and while whipping around on rental skates, check out your fellow skaters.
    • He also took gymnastics for a few years and can do a back flip on skates, partly as a result of his pole-vaulting experience.
    • What do you do with your skates and costumes at the end of the season, do you keep them at home?
    • He dropped out of school at 17 to try his hand at acting, doing different jobs, including sharpening skates at an ice rink, until he found theatre work.
    • So when we would finish cruising for the day, I would take off on my skates and explore.
    • They look like a cross between a pair of aggressive skates and a pair of training skates.
    • The talented youngster first put on skates when he was five.
    • Frustrated at the lack of facilities on offer to them, young people in Portlaoise took matters into their own hands last week and set up their own skate and rollerblading club.
    • He couldn't even put on a pair of skates for five weeks.
    • On in-line skates, the brake is in the back of the skate instead of the front, such as on roller-skates.
    • My feet did begin to hurt some after a while, but I do think that is normal when adjusting to new skates.
    • Lift the other skate and advance it just enough so you can set the heel wheel down next to your arch.
    • All of this fresh air and warm sunshine has had me feeling pretty frisky on my skates.
    1. 1.1 A device, typically with wheels on the underside, used to move a heavy or unwieldy object.
      (载笨重物的)滑板车
verbskeɪtskāt
[no object]
  • 1Move on ice skates or roller skates in a gliding fashion.

    滑冰;溜冰

    the boys were skating on the ice

    男孩子们在冰上溜冰。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Racers may scoff, but both Liz and I feel that a heel brake is required for safe street skating.
    • These are definitely the most comfortable skates I have ever skated in.
    • Figure skating includes four disciplines - singles men and ladies skating, pairs skating, and ice dancing.
    • She walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, and then put on her rollerblades to skate up to work on 34th Street, about four miles way from here.
    • Now it's a gorgeous day and we should be able to attract lots of good attention as we skate down the coast.
    • Karam comes from a skating family and began skating when she was three years old.
    • Aureli began skating when she was six and started competing in dance at eight.
    • We sat on the mezzanine floor where I was amazed by the sight of hip young waiters as they literally skated by, on roller skates, while balancing laden trays in their hands.
    • I started skating in a toddler and parent class at the Skating Club of Wilmington.
    • He skates for four hours a day, five days a week, and sometimes another two hours on Saturday.
    • Gregory skated in singles up to the national level in novice ladies.
    • Buys was a late starter in skating, not taking to the ice until she was nine.
    • John, who is two years younger than his sister, also began skating when he was nine.
    • People in London regard in line skating as a recreational sport more than anything else.
    • I told my mother I wanted to ice skate, but she didn't skate, and she was afraid to take me out on the ice.
    • Sophie started skating at the Altrincham Ice Rink four years ago, and was devastated when it was closed in April.
    • We skated with and met lots of new fools over the past two months.
    • They kept good speed throughout the program, skated with flow and confidence.
    • The two-time World Junior bronze medalists skated close together.
    • I skated up and down my sloped neighborhood streets, analyzing the sources of my anxiety and how to relieve them.
    Synonyms
    glide, drift, float, flow, slide, slip, sweep, skim, coast, breeze, flit
    1. 1.1with object Perform (a specified figure) on skates.
      滑出,溜出(花样)
      figure eights skated entirely on one foot

      双八字形溜冰完全靠一只脚滑行。

    2. 1.2 Ride on a skateboard.
      踩滑板
  • 2skate over/aroundPass over or refer only fleetingly to (a subject or problem)

    〈喻〉一带而过,略微触及(主题,问题)

    she seemed to skate over the next part of her story

    她似乎对她故事的下一部分一带而过。

    Synonyms
    mention briefly, make only brief mention of, pass over quickly, skate over, gloss over
  • 3skate throughMake quick and easy progress through.

    〈喻〉一蹴而就

    he admits he had expected to skate through the system

    他承认他一直期望通过这个系统轻松取得进展。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I manage to skate through several dozen questions about Ethan without exposing any sensitive aspects of myself or my mission.
    • Doctor Zane was right, Alex did prefer to skate through the majority of his life and ignore the less pleasant aspects.
    • If he'd truly been this ignorant about Jeff's attitude and Franklin's integrity, there was no telling what else he'd been skating through without a clue as to how bad things really were.
    • Given the politics of the Supreme Court right now, there was no one - no one - who was going to skate through this nomination.
    • It really let me skate through a large amount of the battles that I faced in the beginning of the game without even so much as a scratch at times.
    • We're taking it as a foregone conclusion that Dean is going to skate through the primaries unscathed.
    • He recently moved to Los Angeles and attended Hollywood's Musicians Institute, skating through the program in just six months.
    • It's not an intrinsically bad thing - after all, it helped me skate through grade school and high school with a minimum of effort.
    • I'm betting a well-paid lawyer will help them skate through the legal system with the prowess of a large corporation…
    • I'm not happy to be some yes man and skate through my career without making something meaningful of it for myself, and more importantly others.

Origin

Mid 17th century (originally as the plural scates): from Dutch schaats (singular but interpreted as plural), from Old French eschasse ‘stilt’.

skate2

nounskeɪtskāt
  • 1A typically large marine fish of the ray family with a cartilaginous skeleton and a flattened diamond-shaped body.

    Family Rajidae: numerous species, in particular the commercially valuable Raja batis

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After a total of forty minutes of heaving, the skate broke surface by the side of the boat.
    • Cod, hake, whiting, mackerel and skate as well as shellfish were pulled from the sea.
    • From the same family as rays, skates are bottom-dwelling fish usually found in shallow coastal waters.
    • Things like halibut and skate were decidedly strange - a bit like vegetables that swam.
    • While a fine food, skate numbers in UK and European waters are very low and this fish is officially recognised as an endangered species.
    • If cod and haddock are overfished, monkfish and common skate threatened, farmed salmon tainted with dyes and antibiotics and game fish riddled with mercury, what are we meant to eat?
    • The freshwater sawfish, a ray, is related to stingrays, skates, sharks, and other fishes with cartilaginous skeletons.
    • In some areas small skates and dogfish (a small shark species) appear to have taken over the cod's niche in the ecosystem.
    • Mr Wells had hooked a large flatfish which he thought was a skate, but it turned out to be a stingray and it wound its tail round his arm and stuck a four-inch spike into him.
    1. 1.1 The flesh of a skate or thornback used as food.
      (用做食物的)鳐肉
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Put the skate into a large, shallow pan and add enough water to cover it.
      • The cooking possesses an apparent simplicity - but this should fool no one: it takes ten minutes and 30 years to cook a wing of skate to this degree of perfection.
      • Only skate, a little soggy in white wine and lemon, and skirt steak - which might benefit from marinating or some garlic - don't quite match up.
      • Delicate skate in a grainy mustard sauce is bolstered by a forceful bed of savoy cabbage and water chestnuts.
      • Like the skate, this more delicate fish was simply perfect.
      • Most recently, a gorgeous wild mushroom truffle soup stood out, along with a generous plate of skate dressed in an intense caper sauce.
      • Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
      • We ate fish soup, mussels, oysters, skate in brown butter and my aunt's tomato salad.
      • Throughout the western fjords, a hash of skate is cooked.
      • I'll have to get the skate from Boston, and I doubt I'll be able to find any that isn't frozen, but I'll let you know.
      • We used to sell mostly skate, cod and rock salmon but now the Chinese want lobster and Dover sole, while the West Indians want snapper.
      • Melt some butter until it becomes foamy and brown, toss in some capers and lemon juice, and splash it onto the skate with a good grinding of black pepper and some chopped parsley.
      • Pan-seared skate's lobsterlike richness is offset by tarragon and grapefruit.
      • Most of the skate sold in fish shops is in fact thornback ray, and in the Southeast the fish has the local name roker.
      • Who knew that grilled skate wing went nicely with a hot, red smear of sambal?
      • Place each skate fillet in the center; season and spread some basil and olives on top.
      • We had an amuse-bouche of lobster bisque with skate, a good strong flavour to get the juices flowing.
      • If, like me, you adore the meaty flesh and sweet flavour of fresh skate, and you have not asked your fishmonger to remove the skin, then you will need to resort to the toolbox before dinner.

Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse skata.

skate3

nounskeɪtskāt
South African dated, informal
  • An uncouth and disreputable man.

    〈南非,非正式〉声名狼藉的粗鲁白人

    Synonyms
    lout, boor, barbarian, neanderthal, churl, clown, gawk, hulk, bumpkin, yokel

Origin

Late 19th century: of uncertain origin.

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