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Bate

Definitions: Bate

Bate

Verb

1. Moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm".

2. Flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons.

3. Soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Bate

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A. To enlarge a colliery road by lowering the floor. CF:batin b. Eng. Cleavage in slates, esp. in the Sheerbate stone. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Bate

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

BATE

EnglishBonisistate-traitanxietyscaleN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: Bate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discount

Verb: discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax.

Nonaddition Subtraction

Verb: subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Bate, abate, dequantitate; discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate; (moderate); dwarf, throw into the shade; reduce; shorten; subtract. Adjective: unincreased; (see increase;); decreased; Verb: decreasing; Verb: on the wane; n.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bate

English words defined with "bate": BatingFrugivoraGrainerTo bate an ace. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bate": bate barrel, Bate me an AceHarringtonParson Bate. (references)
Etymologies containing "bate": Makebate. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Bate" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Asturian (bat), Frisian (avail), Romanian (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), Spanish (bat).

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Modern Usage: Bate

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Pogibija Bate Jankovica (1967)

Cand o bate vantul (1995)

Onde Bate o Sol (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Bate

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bate ha-din bi-yeme ha-Talmud (reference)

  • El cuarto bate (reference)

  • John Templeton of Iredell Co., N.C.: And Related Families of Handly, Marks, Folk, Pilcher, Colyar, Bate and Beall (reference)

  • Madrikh Karta le-Eropah ha-klasit : 60 mapot arim u-maslulim, bate haarahah tovim bi-mehirim amamiyim, mekomot hashuvim la-tayar ha-dati (reference)

  • Samuel Bate, singular character, 1776-1849 : the life of a turbulent pioneer (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bate

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Usage Frequency: Bate

"Bate" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 39.02% of the time. "Bate" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)39.02%1687,710
Adjective (general or positive)29.27%12101,599
Lexical Verb (infinitive)14.63%6143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)12.2%5157,705
Unclassified Items2.44%1339,140
Noun (singular)2.44%1339,140
                    Total100.00%41N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Bate

The following table summarizes the usage of "bate" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BateLast name1,00013,854
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Bate

Expressions using "bate": bate breath To bate an ace. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bate papo

1,000

bate papo uol

227

bate de papo salas

52

kingsley bate

41

bate bol papo

41

bate de papo sala

38

bate

29

bate chat papo

28

norman bate

16

bate papo uol.com.br

15

bate papo terra

14

bapo bate

10

bate papo yahoo

10

bate brazil papo

10

bate papo uol.brasil

8

bate stamp

8

bate papo uol.com

8

bate ig papo

8

bate papo.com.br

8

bate gratis papo

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bate

Language Translations for "bate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Mbaj (attach, bear, breed, carry, deduct, enshrine, force upon, get off, give, have, have smth. on, hold, keep, keep on, maintain, man, perform, pitch, preserve, refrain, respect, retain, save, support, sustain, wear, withhold). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حبس أنفاسه من خوف, ‏صفق الصقر بجناحيه بفروغ صر, ‏خفض صوته. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ярост (desperation, frenzy, fury, ire, madness, paddywhack, passion, rabidity, rage, rave, tear, violence, wax), Отслабям, Притъпявам. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

软化剂 (Bates, softener, tenderizer). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پاءین اوردن (Disrate, Shut), کم کردن (Alleviate, Cut, Deduce, Deduct, Detract, Drawoff, Extenuate, Rebate, Reduce, Relax, Retrench, Shade, Soften, Subtract, Thin, Weaken), تخفیف دادن (Abate, Alight, Assuage, Discount, Extenuate, Lower, Mitigate, Relieve), خیساندن چرم درماده قلیاءی , راضی کردن (Content, Sate, Satisfy), دلیل وبرهان اوردن (Reason), بال زدن بطرف پاءین . (various references)

   

French

  

retenir son souffle (bate breath). (various references)

   

German

  

Beizen (disinfect, etch, marinate, pickle, stain, staining, steep in corrosive fluid, to dress). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όετριάζω, Ελαττώνω. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

méreg (anger, bane, bother, poison, spunk, toxic, toxin, venom), düh (anger, dander, fury, heat, ire, passion, rage, wrath). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menurunkan (degrade, demote), menahan (bridle, curb, detain, endure, keep back, retain, weather, withhold, withstand). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Trattenere (contain, curb, deduct, detain, deter, entertain, hold, hold back, hold off, inhibit, keep, keep oneself, pull in, remain, restrain, retain, suppress, withhold), Ridurre (abandon ship, abate, abbreviate, abridge, adapt, be reduced, bring down, curtail, cut, cut down, decrease, depress, drive, pare down, prune, rebate, reduce, reduce oneself, remit, shorten, shrink, turn into), Diminuire (abate, decline, decrease, detract, diminish, drop, dwindle, fall, go, go down, lessen, reduce, reduction, relax, remit, sag, slacken, slump, wane, weaken, worsen). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lhaggaghey (abate, abatement, depress, dim, drop away, ease, ease off, fade, fade out, flag, mitigate; flagging, mitigation, reduce, reduction, relax, relaxation, write down). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atebay

   

Portuguese

  

Reduzir (baiting, bating, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minify, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, skimp, slash, tapering, to reduce, weaken, wear down, write off), Mitigar (abate, alleviate, assuage, blunt, lightening, mitigate, palliate, quench, relieve, salve, sate, slake, soften, soothe), Cólera (anger, bile, choler, cholera, Dander, displeasure, fury, heat, Paddy, passion fruit, pip, spunk, state, wrath). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

Slãbi (abate, attenuate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), Micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), Fremãta (bustle, fuss, murmur, roar, rustle, sough), Descreşte (abate, decline, decrease, dewindle, diminish, fall, fall off, flag, grow, lessen, shorten, sink, subside, wane). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ярость (anger, berserker fury, frenzy, furiosity, furor, fury, ire, rabidity, rage, rampage, wrath). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bes (fury, rage), gnev (anger, fume, wrath). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Solución Alcalina, Disminuir Algo (pare down, recede, shrink). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Hålla Tillbaka (check, force back, hold back, keep down, rein in, restrain). (various references)

   

Thai

  

อ"กลั้น (ความหมายเก่า), ล". (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), Kuvveti Kesilmek, Kesmek (abandon, amputate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), Hiddet (anger, dudgeon, exasperation, flame, flare up, furor, furore, fury, Paddy, rage, sound and fury, spunk, steam, wrath), Gazap (fury, rage, wrath), Azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off), Asitleme, Öfke (Paddy). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

Опускати, Притупляти, Зниження, Зменшувати, Зменшення, Збавляти, Хиріти, Трепетати, Лють (Paddy), "нів (Dander), 'ираховування, Стримувати, Скорочувати, Слабнути. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bate

Derivations

Words beginning with "bate": bateau, bateaux, bated, bates. (additional references)

Words ending with "bate": abate, acerbate, adsorbate, approbate, ascorbate, barbate, bilobate, celibate, cohobate, conglobate, debate, erythorbate, exacerbate, extubate, globate, incubate, intubate, limbate, lobate, makebate, masturbate, niobate, outdebate, polysorbate, postdebate, probate, rebate, reprobate, sorbate, stylobate, trilobate, tubate. (additional references)

Words containing "bate": abated, abatement, abatements, abater, abaters, abates, acerbated, acerbates, adsorbates, approbated, approbates, ascorbates, celibates, cohobated, cohobates, combated, combater, combaters, conglobated, conglobates, debated, debatement, debatements, debater, debaters, debates, erythorbates, exacerbated, exacerbates, extubated, extubates, globated, incubated, incubates, intubated, intubates, lobated, lobately, makebates, masturbated, masturbates, niobates, outdebated, outdebates, polysorbates, probated, probates, rebated, rebater, rebaters, rebates, reprobated, reprobates, sorbates, stylobates, unabated, unabatedly, unbated. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abte, Babtie, bache, bactec, bae, baet, bage, bagtie, bahta, baie, baite, Baje, Bajee, Bajt, Balta, Baltay, baltek, balti, balto, bantae, bante, bape, bapti, barte, bata, Batac, batal, batau, batay, batde, baten, bateo, batep, Bater, bateu, batey, Bati, batle, batm, bato, batol, Batov, Batrec, Batse, batt, Batta, batte, Battek, batteo, battu, batu, Batum, Batut, Baty, bave, bawe, baxe, bayti, Bcatp, beate, betem, Beti, betwe, beute, bhakti, biate, biet, bifte, bitey, bith, bitte, bitu, biue, blato, blatte, boate, bote, botei, Botek, Botez, botte, brata, brate, brati, Buato, bute, butke, bwat, bwt, bwta, obate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "bate" (pronounced bā"t)
3b ā" tabate, bait, debate.
2-ā" tate, await, berate, Cate, collate, conflate, conjugate, crate, create, date, deflate, demodulate, desecrate, dictate, dilate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fete, freight, gait, gate, gestate, grate, great, hate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, intrastate, irate, late, lightweight, mate, misstate, multistate, negate, oblate, ornate, overrate, overweight, pate, plate, postdate, predate, procreate, prorate, rate, Recriminate, reflate, reinstate, relate, remunerate, restate, sate, sedate, skate, slate, spate, state, straight, Strait, Tate, trait, translate, underrate, update, upstate, wait, weight.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Bate

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: abet, beat, beta.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-t"

-1 letter: ate, bat, bet, eat, eta, tab, tae, tea.

-2 letters: ab, ae, at, ba, be, et, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-t"
 

+1 letter: abate, abets, baste, bated, bates, bathe, beast, beats, beaut, begat, betas, betta, blate, bleat, taber, tabes, table, tubae.

 

+2 letters: abated, abater, abates, abject, ablate, ablest, absent, albeit, albite, arbute, baguet, baited, baiter, ballet, bannet, banter, barbet, barest, barite, barret, barter, baryte, basest, basket, basset, basted, baster, bastes, bateau, bathed, bather, bathes, batmen, batted, batten, batter, battle, battue, bawtie, beasts, beaten, beater, beauts, beauty, bemata, berate, bertha, betake, betray, bettas, bezant, binate, bleats, boated, boatel, boater, borate, breast, breath, butane, cablet, debate, labret, lobate, oblate, rabbet, rebait, rebate, rebato, stable, tabbed, tabers, tabled, tables, tablet, tabued, teabox, terbia, tibiae, tubate, upbeat.

 

+3 letters: abaters, abettal, abetted, abetter, abettor, abeyant, ablated, ablates, abluent, abluted, aborted, aborter, abreact, abreast, absents, abutted, abutter, actable, albites, ambient, antbear, arbiter, arbutes, astilbe, baccate, backset, baddest, baguets, baiters, baldest, ballets, ballute, bannets, banquet, banteng, banters, banties, baptise, baptize, barbate, barbets, barefit, barites, baronet, barrets, bartend, barters, barytes, basinet, baskets, bassets, basters, bastile, batched, batcher, batches, bateaux, bathers, batiste, batlike, batsmen, batteau, battens, batters, battery, battier, battled, battler, battles, battues, bauxite, bawties, bayonet, bearcat, beastie, beastly, beaters, beatify, beating, beatnik, bedfast, bedmate, belated, beleapt, beltway, beneath, benthal, bepaint, berated, berates, beretta, berthas, bestead, bestial, betaine, betaken, betakes, betaxed, bethank, betrays, bewrapt, bezants, bezzant, bimetal, biretta, bistate, bitable, blanket, blasted, blaster, blastie, blather, blatted, blatter, bleated, bleater, bloated, bloater, boasted, boaster, boatels, boaters, boatmen, borated, borates, brachet, bracket, bracted, brattle, bravest, brawest, breadth, breasts, breathe, breaths, breathy, bromate, bullate, bursate, butanes, cabaret, cabinet, cablets, citable, dabster, datable, debated, debater, debates, drabbet, eatable, flatbed, gabfest, getable, globate, habited, habitue, halbert, hatable, iceboat, jetbead, labiate, labrets, lambent, lambert, librate, limbate, lobated, megabit, mutable, niobate, notable, oblates, obovate, obviate, offbeat, outbake, outbeam, potable, probate, rabbets, rarebit, ratable, rebaits, rebated, rebater, rebates, rebatos, reboant, redbait, retable, seaboot, setback, sorbate, stabbed, stabber, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, sublate, tabaret, tabbied, tabbies, tabered, tabetic, tableau, tablets, tabooed, tabored, taborer, taboret, takable, tamable, taxable, teabowl, tenable, tenably, terbias, tieback, timbale, totable, triable, tribade, tunable, typable, typebar, unbated, upbeats, vibrate, votable, wetback.

 

+4 letters: abatable, abatises, abdicate, abducent, abducted, abductee, aberrant, abetment, abettals, abetters, abetting, abettors, abjectly, ablative, ablegate, abluents, abnegate, aboiteau, aborters, abortive, abreacts, abrogate, abrupter, absented, absentee, absenter, absently, absinthe, absolute, absterge, abstruse, abutment, abutters, acerbate, acerbest, acerbity, agitable, alphabet, ambients, ambivert, ambulate, antbears, arbalest, arbelest, arbiters, arboreta, arbutean, asbestic, asbestos, asbestus, astilbes, atonable, atremble, aubretia, aubrieta, baccated, backbeat, backbite, backdate, backrest, backseat, backsets, bacteria, bacterin, baggiest, baguette, bailment, bakemeat, baldpate, balkiest, balletic, ballonet, balloted, balloter, ballutes, balmiest, baluster, banister, banknote, banneret, banquets, bantengs, bantered, banterer, baptised, baptises, baptized, baptizer, baptizes, barathea, barbette, bareboat, barefoot, barghest, barguest, baritone, barkiest, barmiest, barniest, baronets, barrater, barretor, barretry, barrette, bartends, bartered, barterer, barytone, basaltes, basement, basinets, basketry, basseted, bassinet, bastiles, bastille, batchers, bathetic, bathless, bathoses, bathrobe, batistes, batteaux, battened, battener, battered, batterie, battiest, battlers, bauxites, bawdiest, bayonets, beadiest, beakiest, beamiest, bearcats, beasties, beatable, beatific, beatings, beatless, beatniks, beauties, beautify, becarpet, bedmates, bedplate, bedstand, bedstead, bedstraw, beltways, benzoate, bepaints, bequeath, berating, berettas, bergamot, berretta, besteads, bestiary, bestowal, betaines, betaking, betatron, betatter, bethanks, bethesda, betrayal, betrayed, betrayer, bevatron, bezzants, biacetyl, bidental, biforate, bijugate, bilobate, bimetals, binately, biparted, birettas, birretta, biteable, bivalent, blackest, blandest, blankest, blankets, blastema, blasters, blastier, blasties, blathers, blatters, bleakest, bleaters, bleating, bloaters, bloviate, bluecoat, boasters, boatable, boatlike, boatsmen, bolthead, bootable, bootlace, boracite, botanies, botanise, botanize, bracelet, brachets, brackets, bracteal, bractlet, braggest, brakiest, brashest, brattice, brattier, brattled, brattles, braunite, breadnut, breadths, breakout, breasted, breathed, breather, breathes, bregmata, bregmate, broadest, brocatel, bromated, bromates, browbeat, bunkmate, butanone, butylate, butyrate, cabarets, cabernet, cabestro, cabinets, cabotage, cabresta, cabresto, cabretta, carburet, cartable, castable, catbrier, celibate, citeable, cohobate, combated, combater, crabmeat, cubature, cuttable, dabsters, database, dateable, datebook, daubiest, deadbeat, deadbolt, deathbed, debaters, debating, debutant, diabetes, diabetic, diatribe, downbeat, drabbest, drabbets, drawtube, drumbeat, dutiable, eatables, editable, embattle, entameba, epiblast, eurybath, evitable, extubate, fireboat, firebrat, fittable, flatbeds, fleabite, gabbiest, gabfests, gettable, gigabyte, glabrate, globated, gustable, habitude, habitues, halberts, hatboxes, hateable, heatable, hebetate, hecatomb, hoofbeat, huntable, iceboats, imitable, incubate, instable, intubate, jetbeads, jubilate, keelboat, labiated, labiates, laborite, lambaste, lamberts, lambiest, libelant, liberate, librated, librates, lifeboat, liftable, listable, lobately, lobulate, makebate, meatball, megabits, megabyte, meltable, nestable, nettable, niobates, notables, obdurate, obeisant, oblately, obligate, obstacle, obtained, obtainer, obturate, obviated, obviates, offbeats, outbaked, outbakes, outbeams, outblaze, outbleat, outbrave, outbreak, outfable, overbeat, partible, pitiable, portable, postbase, potables, probated, probates, pubertal, quotable, rabbeted, rabbited, rabbiter, rabietic, rarebits, rateable, rateably, ratsbane, rebaited, rebaters, rebating, rebuttal, redbaits, rentable, reobtain, retables, rustable, sabotage, saboteur, satiable, seaboots, seatbelt, setbacks, sibilate, snakebit, sorbates, sortable, stabbers, stabiles, stablers, stablest, statable, stonable, storable, stowable, subacute, subagent, subcaste, sublated, sublates, subovate, substage, substate, subulate, suitable, sunbathe, sweatbox, sybarite, tabarded, tabarets, tabbises, tabering, tabetics, tableaus, tableaux, tableful, tableted, tabletop, tabooley, taborers, taborets, taborine, taboured, tabourer, tabouret, tabulate, tailbone, takeable, talkable, tameable, tangible, tannable, tastable, taxables, teaberry, teaboard, teabowls, teaboxes, tearable, tellable, tenebrae, terabyte, testable, thebaine, tiebacks, tillable, tiltable, timbales, tippable, tithable, titrable, trabeate, tradable, tribades, tubbable, tubulate, tuneable, tuneably, turbaned, turnable, typeable, typebars, umbonate, unabated, unbathed, unbeaten, unstable, urbanest, urbanite, verbatim, vertebra, vibrated, vibrates, vitiable, voteable, wastable, waterbed, wetbacks, wettable, writable, ytterbia.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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