SKATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does skate mean?
• SKATE (noun)
The noun SKATE has 2 senses:
1. 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
2. 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
Familiarity information: SKATE used as a noun is rare.
• SKATE (verb)
The verb SKATE has 1 sense:
1. move along on skates
Familiarity information: SKATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SKATE (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("skate" is a kind of...):
sports equipment (equipment needed to participate in a particular sport)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skate"):
roller skate (a shoe with pairs of rollers fixed to the sole)
in-line skate (a shoe with a line of rollers fixed to the sole)
ice skate (skate consisting of a boot with a steel blade fitted to the sole)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("skate" is a kind of...):
ray (cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skate"):
gray skate; grey skate; Raja batis (common European skate used as food)
little skate; Raja erinacea (most plentiful skate in North American inshore waters in summer; to 21 inches)
Raja radiata; thorny skate (cold-water bottom fish with spines on the back; to 40 inches)
barndoor skate; Raja laevis (one of the largest skates (to 5 feet); an active skate easy to hook)
Holonyms ("skate" is a member of...):
family Rajidae; Rajidae (bottom-dwelling tropical rays: skates)
• SKATE (verb)
Meaning:
Move along on skates
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
The Dutch often skate along the canals in winter
Hypernyms (to "skate" is one way to...):
glide (move smoothly and effortlessly)
Domain category:
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "skate"):
ice skate (move along on ice skates)
figure skate (dance on skates)
roller skate (travel on shoes with steel or rubber rollers attached to their soles)
skateboard (ride on a flat board with rollers attached to the bottom)
Rollerblade (travel on shoes with a single line of rubber wheels attached to their soles)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence examples:
They skate the river
They skate down the river
