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pate - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The human head, especially the top of the head.
- noun The mind or brain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The crown or top of the head, whether of a person or of an animal; in general, the head; the poll; the noddle: usually employed in a trivial or derogatory sense, like
noddle , etc. - noun The skin of a calf's head. Imp. Dict.
- noun Wit; cleverness; “brains”; “head.”
- noun In the fur trade, the fur from a black patch on the head of the wild rabbit.
- noun A badger.
- Weak and sickly.
- noun The flesh split obtained in splitting or leveling a side of leather.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Now generally used in contempt or ridicule. The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.
- noun The skin of a calf's head.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
head , particularly the top or crown. - noun archaic Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
- noun Alternative spelling of
pâté . (finely-ground paste of meat, fish, etc.) - noun The interior body, or non-
rind portion ofcheese , described by its texture, density, and color.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the top of the head
- noun liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
c.1200, perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina ("pan, dish")
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
c.1700, French pâté, from Old French paste, pastée.
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Examples
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Pork roll and pate is a pretty standard banh mi ($5), but their version also throws in this Vietnamese “salami” which they import from California.
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Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal The Canard Saucisson, duck sausage with a layer of country pate, is served with red wine mustard.
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I use it in pate choux all the time to get more impressive volume with a crisp texture.
Pretty Near Perfect Popovers aka TBTAM 2008
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I make a smoked marlin pate that my guests love, and it is quite like yours.
Smoked Marlin Spread 2006
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Although melted cheese works quite nicely, liver pate is not a good topping for waffles; in fact, I might even be moved to use such harsh words as nauseating and inedible.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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Although melted cheese works quite nicely, liver pate is not a good topping for waffles; in fact, I might even be moved to use such harsh words as nauseating and inedible.
Breakfast Memories 2005
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Once, indeed, when I was down from a blow on the pate from a Spanish axe, they rushed forward and kept my assailants at bay until rescue came.
By England's Aid Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 1867
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Whenever popular cartoonist Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) sketches his likeness, Zuma’s pate is faithfully anointed with a shower head
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Whenever popular cartoonist Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) sketches his likeness, Zuma’s pate is faithfully anointed with a shower head
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I really do enjoy liver, just haven't fixed it in years and a pate is a joy.
Liver and Sage Pate Annemarie 2009
Related Words
synonyms (47)
Words with the same meaning
- Danish pastry
- French pastry
- baklava
- bean
- belfry
- blintz
- brain
- brow
- chocolate eclair
- chump
- cream puff
- crown
- dome
- dowdy
- eclair
- encephalon
- gray matter
- head
- headpiece
- noddle
- noggin
- noodle
- organ of thought
- pandowdy
- pastry
- pasty
- patisserie
- patty
- patty-shell
- pie
- poll
- puff
- quiche
- ridge
- rosette
- sconce
- seat of thought
- sensation
- sensorium
- sensory
- strudel
- tart
- timbale
- tipsy cake
- trifle
- turnover
- vol-au-vent
cross-references (3)
Cross-references
rhymes (108)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Ate
- Cate
- Est
- Fate
- Haight
- Iwate
- Kate
- Kuwait
- Nate
- Solid-state
- State
- Sumgait
- Tate
- Waite
- abate
- actuate
- ate
- await
- bait
- bate
- beit
- belate
- berate
- cate
- chait
- circumnavigate
- collate
- commutate
- conflate
- conjugate
- crate
- create
- date
- debate
- deflate
- demodulate
- desecrate
- dictate
- dilate
- eight
- elate
- equate
- est
- estate
- fait
- fate
- fete
- frate
- freight
- gait
- gate
- grate
- great
- hait
- hate
- inflate
- innate
- interrelate
- interstate
- intrastate
- irate
- kate
- late
- lightweight
- mate
- misstate
- multistate
- negate
- oblate
- ornate
- overate
- overrate
- overweight
- plait
- plate
- postdate
- predate
- procreate
- prorate
- rate
- recreate
- recriminate
- reflate
- reinstate
- relate
- remunerate
- restate
- sate
- sedate
- skate
- slate
- solid-state
- spate
- speight
- state
- straight
- strait
- streight
- tait
- trait
- translate
- underrate
- update
- upstate
- wait
- waite
- wayt
- weight
madmouth commented on the word pate
Also the top of a bald man's head.
April 13, 2009
pikachu commented on the word pate
...and the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns...
-Heart of Darknesss (Conrad)
March 19, 2011
bourne616 commented on the word pate
tons of meaning for this word
November 25, 2012