skate

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Related topics: Other sports, Sport, Fish

ldoce_303_eskate1 /skeɪt/ noun

1. [countableC]DSO one of a pair of boots with metal blades on the bottom, for moving quickly on ice （溜）冰鞋 SYN ice skate →5 See picture of skateboard 滑板, ice skates 冰鞋, in-line skates 直排輪旱冰鞋, roller skates 四輪旱冰鞋 →4 See picture of 見圖 skate

2. [countableC]DS one of a pair of boots or frames with small wheels on the bottom, for moving quickly on flat smooth surfaces 旱冰鞋 SYN roller skate

3. [countableC, uncountableU] (plural skate or skates)HBF a large flat sea fish that can be eaten 鳐〔一種可食用的扁平大海魚〕

4 get/put your skates on British EnglishBrE spokenHURRY used to tell someone to hurry 趕快，趕緊〔用於催促别人〕

Put your skates on, or you’ll be late for school.

動作快點，不然你上學要遲到了。

Examples from the Corpus

skate• I suspect that most sensible designers would think in terms of something more like a skate.• The only thing it hasn't got is a decent skate shop.• Ice skates were only a $ 74 million business.• But in-line skates were a $ 700 million business and growing at 20 percent a year, Wakefield said.• Louis' blue and red, canceled the morning skate.• The park is pretty dialled in with a food shop, skate shop, and the midi ramp.

Related topics: Other sports

skate2 verb [intransitiveI]

1 DSOto move on skates 滑冰，溜冰

The children skated on the frozen pond.

孩子們在結冰的池塘上滑冰。

2. be skating on thin ice informalRISK to be doing something that may get you into trouble 如履薄冰，處境危險

3 skate over/around something phrasal verbphr v AVOIDto avoid mentioning a problem or subject, or not give it enough attention 避免提起〔某問題或話題〕；把〔問題等〕輕輕帶過

The president was accused of skating over the issue of the homeless.

總統被指責在無家可歸者的問題上輕描淡寫。

Examples from the Corpus

skate over/around • In all these approaches, influences on language other than gender are skated over.• Why do the hockey players skate around for so long between fights?• While gearing up for the event, Tamagni is faithfully skating around Miramar Reservoir.• The Minister skated over the details of the boards.• The truck was skidding all over the autobahn, skating over the ice-rink surface.• Players skate around the ice with realistic momentum, ie you have to slow down to turn round.• Wayne Gretzky, visibly shaken, skated over to check on his wife during a 10-minute delay in the game.• Gretzky was visibly upset after skating over to check on his wife.

—skater noun [countableC]

Examples from the Corpus

skate• She was 20 and worried about missing a year of skating.• You are being foolish, I told myself, as the lights of cars and houses skated by.• I skate down the road a bit before I shout at cops - or anyone that was giving me some shit.• A buyer for the long haul would not skate far past the optimal point and towards bankruptcy costs.• Gretzky was visibly upset after skating over to check on his wife.• Take the Stars on Ice figure skating show as an example.• The disaster started when Sandstrom was allowed to skate the puck unimpeded between Cam Neely and Bourque at the left point.

Origin skate1

1. (1600-1700) Dutch schaats “stilt, skate”, from Old North French escache “stilt”

2. (1300-1400) Old Norse skata

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