() The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.
(n.) The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.
Example Sentences:
Ate
Definition:
() the preterit of Eat.
(n.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.
(imp.) of Eat
Example Sentences:
(1) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(2) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(3) The test subjects ate up their food appraising the gustatory qualities of the diet constituents.
(4) Complete esophageal impaction developed when the colt ate solid material.
(5) Donors ate a typical Israeli breakfast of salad, cheese, yoghurt and pastries.
(6) In 2011, a study of people with irritable bowel syndrome found that subjects felt better when they ate a gluten-free diet .
(7) No relationship was observed between abdominal fat weight and yellow follicle number, though birds which ate more had more yellow follicles.
(8) The patient ate normally after the operation, and radiological, manometric, and esophageal pH monitoring studies indicated satisfactory esophageal function.
(9) Subjects reported in a diary everything they either ate or drank for seven consecutive days.
(10) The CBV seemed to vary in function with time according to the equation: CBV in ML%: ate-bt + Vo (t = time in minutes: a = integration constant, a = 1.94; b = time constant, b = 0.089; Vo = real CBV).
(11) We found that diabetic animals on a 20% or 50% protein diet ate approximately 50% more protein and excreted about 50% more urinary urea nitrogen than did their respective similarly-fed nondiabetic controls.
(12) A case is here reported of a 35 year old woman with a history of urticaria following anti-tetanus serum and penicillin injections, who frequently ate exotic fruit, and who was intolerant to alcohol.
(13) Seven obese and seven nonobese male undergraduates were videotaped as they ate four dinner meals, two low and two high in preference, under low and high hunger conditions.
(14) Our results indicate that all forms of ICP4 observed in one-dimensional gel electrophoresis are poly(ADP-ribosyl)ated.
(15) Before eating diet L, subjects ate 50 g lactitol daily for 10 d. 3.
(16) Pigeons ate food ad lib, then fasted for several days, and finally ate a controlled amount of food once a day for several months to maintain body weight at 80% of the ad lib value.
(17) Diets were variable among groups; group A primarily ate fruit (81.2% of feeding time) and spent little time eating insects (16.9%), while group C was more heavily reliant on insects (44.3%) and ate less fruit (53.0%).
(18) It was found that (1) F-fed mice ate more and gained more BWt than C- and D-fed mice, and (2) the average GTG lesion volume of F-fed mice was twice as large as those of C- and D-fed mice.
(19) Obese subjects frequently eat irregularly, and ate between meals, especially sweets.
(20) Both species ate the same amount per unit body weight but buffaloes spent 53% more time ruminating than cattle.