skateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /skeɪt/
• 韻: -eɪt
• ハイフネーション: skate

別の表記

• skait (古風な用法)

語源 1

Back-formation from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schāetse, from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”) (compare French échasse かつ English scatch), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), related to *skakan (“to shake, swing”).

名詞

skate (複数形 skates)

1. A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
2. Abbreviation of ice skate.
3. Abbreviation of roller skate.
4. The act of skateboarding

   There's time for a quick skate before dinner.

5. The act of roller skating or ice skating

   The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.

動詞

skate (三人称単数 現在形 skates, 現在分詞 skating, 過去形および過去分詞形 skated)

1. To move along a surface (ice または ground) using skates.
2. To skateboard.
3. (skiing) To use the skating technique.
4. (slang) To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
5. To move smoothly and easily.
   • March 26 2023, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Addressing a short pass from Henderson, he always felt too smart for Mykola Matviyenko, taking a step to lure him one way; dropping his shoulder and skating in the other direction, further inside.

派生語

形容詞

skate (not comparable)

1. (skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.

語源 2

From Middle English skat, scate (also schat), from Old Norse skata (“skate”). Cognate with Icelandic skata (“skate, ray”), Norwegian skate (“skate”).

名詞

skate (複数形 skates)

1. A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body.

語源 3

Unknown.

名詞

skate (複数形 skates)

1. A worn-out horse.
2. A mean or contemptible person.

派生語

• cheapskate
• labor skate

Further reading

• skate at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• Keast, Keats, Skeat, Stake, kates, ketas, stake, steak, takes, teaks