What (who) is Skate - definition
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skate
n.
1) an ice; roller skate
2) a pair of skates
skate
(skates, skating, skated)
1.
Skates are ice-skates.
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2.
Skates are roller-skates.
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3.
If you skate, you move about wearing ice-skates or roller-skates.
I actually skated, and despite some teetering I did not fall on the ice...
Dan skated up to him.
VERB: V, V adv/prep
• skating
They all went skating together in the winter.
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• skater (skaters)
West Lake, an outdoor ice-skating rink, attracts skaters during the day and night.
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4.
A skate is a kind of flat sea fish.
Boats had plenty of mackerel and a few skate.
= ray
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Skate is this fish eaten as food.
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5.
If you skate over or round a difficult subject, you avoid discussing it.
Scientists have tended to skate over the difficulties of explaining dreams...
When pressed, he skates around the subject of those women who he met as a 19-year-old.
VERB: V over n, V round/around n
Skate
·vi To move on skates.
II. Skate ·noun A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, - made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice.
III. Skate ·noun Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin is more or less spinose.
Pronunciation examples for Skate
1. Electric Skates could've been some Electric Skates.
Broadway's SpongeBob the Musical _ Talks at Google
2. to skate--
Olympic Ice Dancing _ Maia and Alex Shibutani _ Talks at Google
3. And it would just be literally skate around, jump, fall, skate around, jump, fall, skate
Dream Big, Little Pig _ Kristi Yamaguchi _ Talks at Google
4. that we'd roller skate--
The Story of Wax Trax! Records _ Julia Nash and Mark Skillicorn _ Talks at Google
5. JAE'LEN JOSEY: Skates aren't--
Broadway's SpongeBob the Musical _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Skate
1. It was skate and skate, without goalies, without blue lines, four–on–four, no whistles.
2. So I tried to keep a low profile, to skate by unnoticed." And she doesn‘t mean just figuratively: She in fact has always liked to roller skate.
3. Here‘s what you need to know: Last year you could skate this close to the law, but now you can only skate that close.
4. VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Switzerland‘s twice world champion and Olympic silver medallist Stephane Lambiel produced a sensational free skate to steal an unlikely victory at Skate Canada on Saturday.
5. Year–round; $10, $8.50 children under 13, $4 skate rental.