Skate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An ice skate.
  • n. A roller skate.
  • n. A skateboard.
  • n. The act or a period of skating or skateboarding.
  • verb-intransitive. To glide or move along on or as if on skates.
  • verb-intransitive. To ride or perform stunts on a skateboard.
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To act in an irresponsible or superficial manner.
  • n. Any of various rays of the genus Raja, having a flattened body and greatly expanded pectoral fins that extend around the head.
  • n. A fellow; a person.
  • n. A decrepit horse; a nag.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. abbreviated form of ice skate or roller skate
  • n. The act of skateboarding
  • n. The act of roller skating or ice skating
  • v. To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
  • v. To skateboard
  • n. A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To move on skates.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A raioid or batoid plagiostomous fish of the family Raiidæ and genus Raia; a kind of ray.
  • n. A contrivance for enabling a person to glide swiftly on ice, consisting of a steel runner fixed either to a wooden sole provided with straps and buckles, or to a light iron or steel frame-work having adjustable clamps or other means of attachment to a shoe or boot. See roller-skate.
  • To glide over ice and snow on skates.
  • n. In New Zealand, the skate is Raja nasuta.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs
  • n. large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins
  • v. move along on skates
  • Verb Form
    skated    skates    skating   
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