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say it: skayt
skate is a noun and verb meaning "sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs". It carries 3 recorded senses.
sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs
large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for skate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.