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to abate." ], "id": "en-bate-en-verb-s9JV8Fc7", "links": [ [ "reduce", "reduce" ], [ "force", "force" ], [ "abate", "abate" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate." ], "tags": [ "transitive" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "75 2 5 2 2 1 11 3", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "namaljavam", "sense": "to reduce the force of something", "word": "намалявам" }, { "_dis1": "75 2 5 2 2 1 11 3", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "otslabvam", "sense": "to reduce the force of something", "word": "отслабвам" }, { "_dis1": "75 2 5 2 2 1 11 3", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "pritǎpjavam", "sense": "to reduce the force of something", "word": "притъпявам" }, { "_dis1": "75 2 5 2 2 1 11 3", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to reduce the force of something", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "snížit" }, { "_dis1": "75 2 5 2 2 1 11 3", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to reduce the force of something", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "zmírnit" }, { "_dis1": "75 2 5 2 2 1 11 3", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to reduce the force of something", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "zmenšit" }, { "_dis1": "75 2 5 2 2 1 11 3", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to reduce the force of something", "word": "heikentää" }, { "_dis1": "75 2 5 2 2 1 11 3", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to reduce the force of something", "word": "hillitä" }, { "_dis1": "75 2 5 2 2 1 11 3", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "ubavljátʹ", "sense": "to reduce the force of something", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "убавля́ть" }, { "_dis1": "75 2 5 2 2 1 11 3", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "umenʹšátʹ", "sense": "to reduce the force of something", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "уменьша́ть" } ] }, { "categories": [], "glosses": [ "To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation" ], "id": "en-bate-en-verb-8g~nhn50", "links": [ [ "restrain", "restrain" ], [ "anticipation", "anticipation" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation" ], "tags": [ "transitive" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "2 75 5 5 6 1 4 1", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to restrain", "word": "pidättää" } ] }, { "categories": [], "glosses": [ "To cut off, remove, take away." ], "id": "en-bate-en-verb-ojcOz-t~", "links": [ [ "cut off", "cut off" ], [ "remove", "remove" ], [ "take away", "take away" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away." ], "tags": [ "figuratively", "sometimes", "transitive" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "2 1 85 2 3 3 3 1", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to cut off, remove, take away", "word": "poistaa" }, { "_dis1": "2 1 85 2 3 3 3 1", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to cut off, remove, take away", "word": "ottaa pois" } ] }, { "categories": [], "glosses": [ "To leave out, except, bar." ], "id": "en-bate-en-verb-NzY015H4", "links": [ [ "leave out", "leave out" ], [ "except", "except" ], [ "bar", "bar" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar." ], "tags": [ "archaic", "transitive" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "1 1 5 85 4 1 2 1", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "archaic: to leave out, except, bar", "word": "jättää pois" } ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "3 10 7 2 1 6 1 28 1 8 2 2 7 2 18 1", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "To waste away." ], "id": "en-bate-en-verb-s-Gh5pfo", "links": [ [ "waste away", "waste away" ] ] }, { "glosses": [ "To deprive of." ], "id": "en-bate-en-verb-QwaIBFie", "links": [ [ "deprive", "deprive" ] ] }, { "glosses": [ "To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower." ], "id": "en-bate-en-verb-64tBwgkN", "links": [ [ "abate", "abate" ] ] }, { "glosses": [ "To allow by way of abatement or deduction." ], "id": "en-bate-en-verb-kUk2GDuh" } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/beɪt/" }, { "rhymes": "-eɪt" }, { "homophone": "bait" }, { "audio": "En-au-bate.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/00/En-au-bate.ogg/En-au-bate.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-au-bate.ogg", "tags": [ "Australia" ], "text": "Audio (AU)" } ], "word": "bate" } { "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "to contend" }, "expansion": "table", "name": "etymid" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "debate" }, "expansion": "debate", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "bate", "4": "", "5": "contention" }, "expansion": "Middle English bate (“contention”)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "batre" }, "expansion": "Old French batre", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "fr", "2": "battre" }, "expansion": "French battre", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "la", "3": "batto", "4": "battere" }, "expansion": "Latin battere", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "table\n* Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate.\n* Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "bate (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "Strife; contention." ], "id": "en-bate-en-noun-3-PDxWO6", "links": [ [ "Strife", "strife" ], [ "contention", "contention" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ], "translations": [ { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "strife, contention", "word": "kiista" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/beɪt/" }, { "rhymes": "-eɪt" }, { "homophone": "bait" }, { "audio": "En-au-bate.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/00/En-au-bate.ogg/En-au-bate.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-au-bate.ogg", "tags": [ "Australia" ], "text": "Audio (AU)" } ], "word": "bate" } { "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "to contend" }, "expansion": "table", "name": "etymid" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "debate" }, "expansion": "debate", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "bate", "4": "", "5": "contention" }, "expansion": "Middle English bate (“contention”)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "batre" }, "expansion": "Old French batre", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "fr", "2": "battre" }, "expansion": "French battre", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "la", "3": "batto", "4": "battere" }, "expansion": "Latin battere", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "table\n* Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate.\n* Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere.", "forms": [ { "form": "bates", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "bating", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "bated", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "bated", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [], "glosses": [ "To contend or strive with blows or arguments." ], "id": "en-bate-en-verb-ITXUJgnT", "links": [ [ "contend", "contend" ], [ "strive", "strive" ], [ "blow", "blow" ], [ "argument", "argument" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments." ], "related": [ { "_dis1": "99 1", "sense": "to contend or strive with blows or arguments", "word": "bait" } ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "98 2", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to contend, strive with blows or arguments", "word": "kiistellä" }, { "_dis1": "98 2", "code": "fi", "english": "arguments", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to contend, strive with blows or arguments", "word": "väitellä" } ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Falconry", "orig": "en:Falconry", "parents": [ "Sports", "Human activity", "Human behaviour", "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans", "text": "The fiꝛſt is holde faſt at all timys, and ſpecially whan ſhe batith. It is calde batyng, for ſhe batith with hiꝛ ſelfe moſt oftyn cauſeles[.]", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1600, Francis Bacon, letter to Queen Elizabeth, upon the sending of a new-year's gift", "text": "I am like a hawk , that bates , when I see occasion of service , but cannot fly because I am tied to another's fist", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait." ], "id": "en-bate-en-verb-NQvwZt5W", "links": [ [ "falconry", "falconry" ], [ "flap", "flap" ], [ "wing", "wing" ], [ "vigorously", "vigorously" ], [ "bait", "bait" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ], "topics": [ "falconry", "hobbies", "hunting", "lifestyle" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "2 98", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "in falconry of a falcon: to flap the wings vigorously", "word": "räpytellä" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/beɪt/" }, { "rhymes": "-eɪt" }, { "homophone": "bait" }, { "audio": "En-au-bate.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/00/En-au-bate.ogg/En-au-bate.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-au-bate.ogg", "tags": [ "Australia" ], "text": "Audio (AU)" } ], "word": "bate" } { "etymology_number": 3, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "sv", "3": "beta", "4": "", "5": "maceration, tanning" }, "expansion": "Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”)", "name": "bor" } ], "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”).", "forms": [ { "form": "bates", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "bate (plural bates)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "3 19 5 2 2 5 4 14 2 6 3 2 5 15 13 2", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Hides", "orig": "en:Hides", "parents": [ "Leatherworking", "Materials", "Crafts", "Manufacturing", "Society", "Human activity", "All topics", "Human behaviour", "Fundamental", "Human" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1888, Popular Science, volume 34, number 10, page 287", "text": "The process of unliming hides and skins in tanning has been a slow and disgusting one, consisting in soaking the skins in a bath of manure in water, called bate.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning." ], "id": "en-bate-en-noun-KHSBgPa2", "links": [ [ "alkaline", "alkaline" ], [ "lye", "lye" ], [ "lime", "lime" ], [ "hide", "hide" ], [ "tanning", "tanning" ] ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "95 5", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "an alkaline lye", "word": "peittausaine" } ] }, { "glosses": [ "A vat which contains this liquid." ], "id": "en-bate-en-noun-JN~zktHT", "links": [ [ "vat", "vat" ] ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "3 97", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "a vat which contains this liquid", "word": "sammio" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/beɪt/" }, { "rhymes": "-eɪt" }, { "homophone": "bait" }, { "audio": "En-au-bate.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/00/En-au-bate.ogg/En-au-bate.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-au-bate.ogg", "tags": [ "Australia" ], "text": "Audio (AU)" } ], "word": "bate" } { "etymology_number": 3, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "sv", "3": "beta", "4": "", "5": "maceration, tanning" }, "expansion": "Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”)", "name": "bor" } ], "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”).", "forms": [ { "form": "bates", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "bating", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "bated", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "bated", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "bate (third-person singular simple present bates, present participle bating, simple past and past participle bated)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [], "glosses": [ "To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate." ], "id": "en-bate-en-verb-ki6Y~wfG", "links": [ [ "soak", "soak" ], [ "leather", "leather" ], [ "chemical", "chemical" ], [ "tanning", "tanning" ], [ "steep", "steep" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate." ], "tags": [ "transitive" ], "translations": [ { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to soak leather", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "vydělávat (kůži)" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to soak leather", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "mořit" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "to soak leather", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "máčet" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to soak leather", "word": "peitata" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "to soak leather", "tags": [ "imperfective" ], "word": "bejcować" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "to soak leather", "tags": [ "perfective" ], "word": "zabejcować" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/beɪt/" }, { "rhymes": "-eɪt" }, { "homophone": "bait" }, { "audio": "En-au-bate.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/00/En-au-bate.ogg/En-au-bate.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-au-bate.ogg", "tags": [ "Australia" ], "text": "Audio (AU)" } ], "word": "bate" } { "etymology_number": 4, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "eat" }, "expansion": "eat", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ate" }, "expansion": "ate", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "gave" }, "expansion": "gave", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "spake" }, "expansion": "spake", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "eaten" }, "expansion": "eaten", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "beaten" }, "expansion": "beaten", "name": "m" } ], "etymology_text": "Formed by analogy with eat → ate or other Class 5 strong verbs (compare gave, obsolete spake, etc.), with which it shares an analogous past participle (eaten → beaten).", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "verb form" }, "expansion": "bate", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "2008 October 20, Lee Aronsohn, David Goetsch, Steven Molaro, Bill Prady, “The Euclid Alternative”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 2, episode 5, Chuck Lorre Productions, via Warner Bros. Television and CBS", "text": "Leonard: Penny’s taking you to the DMV; I’m going to bed.\nSheldon: Why Penny?\nLeonard: Because rock bate scissors. 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