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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
Ate
    n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ate \Ate\ (?; 277),
   the preterit of Eat.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ate \A"te\, n. [Gr. ?.] (Greek. Myth.)
   The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the
   goddess of vengeance.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
-ate \-ate\ [From the L. suffix -atus, the past participle
   ending of verbs of the 1st conj.]
   1. As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it
      is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or
      animated.
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   2. As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to
      act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to
      animate (to give life to).
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   3. As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate,
      delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity;
      as, tribunate.
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   4. In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from
      those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or
      halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate
      from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of
      certain basic salts.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Eat \Eat\ ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. Ate ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent &
   Colloq. Eat ([e^]t); p. p. Eaten ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or
   Colloq. Eat ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Eating.] [OE. eten,
   AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan,
   G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. [aum]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan,
   Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad.
   [root]6. Cf. Etch, Fret to rub, Edible.]
   1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially
      of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as
      oxen." --Dan. iv. 25.
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            They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps.
                                                  cvi. 28.
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            The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
                                                  --Gen. xli.
                                                  20.
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            The lion had not eaten the carcass.   --1 Kings
                                                  xiii. 28.
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            With stories told of many a feat,
            How fairy Mab the junkets eat.        --Milton.
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            The island princes overbold
            Have eat our substance.               --Tennyson.
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            His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
                                                  --Thackeray.
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   2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
      cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to
      cause to disappear.
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   To eat humble pie. See under Humble.

   To eat of (partitive use). "Eat of the bread that can not
      waste." --Keble.

   To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the
      Citation under Blurt.)

   To eat out, to consume completely. "Eat out the heart and
      comfort of it." --Tillotson.

   To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.), to gain slowly to
      windward of her.

   Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
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6. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
ATE
       Asynchronous Terminal Emulation (Banyan, VINES)
       

7. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
ATE
       ATM Terminating Equipment (SONET, ATM)
       

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