What's the difference between ate and bate?

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.

Bate


Definition:

  • (n.) Strife; contention.
  • (v. t.) To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
  • (v. t.) To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
  • (v. t.) To leave out; to except.
  • (v. t.) To remove.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of.
  • (v. i.) To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
  • (v. i.) To waste away.
  • (v. t.) To attack; to bait.
  • () imp. of Bite.
  • (v. i.) To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
  • (n.) See 2d Bath.
  • (n.) An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
  • (v. t.) To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
  • (2) A search of the medical records from 1940 to 1975 at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco and Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley has revealed only 3 cases of carcinoma within a urethral diverticulum.
  • (3) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
  • (4) The pulmonary diffusing capacity (DLCO) was measured in 13 healthy subjects during heart catheterization by the steady-state method (according to Bates and his coworkers).
  • (5) That could make it more difficult to gain a majority decision to change monetary policy in either direction," says Nick Bate, economist at Bank of America in London.
  • (6) Bates also rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of a major collection program for the third time in three years.
  • (7) Unsurprisingly, Laura Bates turned to an anonymous talkboard to ask for help soon after she founded the Everyday Sexism Project 18 months ago.
  • (8) Three prototype robots – “SwarmBots” – have been tested on the Bate family property near Emerald and, by mid-2017, will be available to farmers in other parts of Australia on a fee-for-service basis.
  • (9) Ouseley's pressure group, Kick It Out , has been hugely effective, and Bates has gone on to become a vocal campaigner against racism.
  • (10) He has a Nobel Prize in economics (also the John Bates Clark award for best economist under 40).
  • (11) Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates is published by Simon & Schuster inspring 2014.
  • (12) Both were directed by Harold Pinter and both starred Alan Bates, who was to become intimately associated with Gray's plays.
  • (13) David is preparing a counterclaim against GFH for monies owed to him and which are in excess of the amount of the claim made against him by GFH.” Haigh played a key role in GFHC’s takeover of Leeds from Ken Bates in December 2012 and also introduced Massimo Cellino, the present owner, to the club.
  • (14) The Ti1 pioneer neurons arise at the distal tip of the metathoracic leg in the grasshopper embryo, and are the first neurons in the limb bud to extend axons to the central nervous system (C. M. Bate (1976) Nature (London) 260, 54-56; H. Keshishian (1980) Dev.
  • (15) In an article for the Guardian two days later , Bate wrote that no reason had been given and that he understood that Carol Hughes, who controls her husband’s estate, had been happy with how he planned to research and present the work.
  • (16) Maurice Bates is interim co-chair of the College of Social Work This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional.
  • (17) Bates was born in Allestree, Derbyshire; and, although Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet had "a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire", Bates made the most of its artistic possibilities.
  • (18) Some may want a book that offers some escape – in which case the quirky English humour of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle may do the trick, or a pick-me-up dose of HE Bates 's The Darling Buds of May .
  • (19) And, apart from appearing in plays at his Belper grammar school, Bates became a regular visitor to Derby Playhouse, where he admired the work of two unknown actors, and later friends, John Osborne and John Dexter.
  • (20) Until recently, Bates would have considered herself the last person qualified to answer that question.

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