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Definition: CATES |
CATESNoun1. Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. |
Date "CATES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Note: Cates \Cates\, plural noun. [Compare to Acates, and see Cater, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake, prog, meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia; cereals; viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots; festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CATES |
| English words defined with "CATES": Acates, Achate ♦ Cate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CATES": ART ♦ -art. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Then what is Bertram Cates doing in the Hillsboro Jail? (Inherit the Wind; writing credit: Jerome Lawrence; Robert E. Lee) Shelly Cates could convince a jury that Jeffrey Dahmer had an eating disorder. (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sam Cates from Oklahoma, now establishing a little farm up Cow Hollow, with his great grandfather's gun, who brought it from South Carolina. The gun is 150 years old. This family took this gun from South Carolina to Texas, from Texas to Arkansas (five yea.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Sam Cates, wife of Cow Hollow farmer. Malheur County, Oregon.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cates, Cow Hollow farmers. Malheur County, Oregon.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J. One day a wag -- what would the wretch be at? -- Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! Straight arose Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows, And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns, And disputations dire that lamed their limbs) To serve his temple and maintain the fires, Expound the law, manipulate the wires. Amazed, the populace that rites attend, Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend, And, inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the priests. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CATES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "CATES" is used about 11 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 90.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (plural) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CATES" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cates | Last name | 9,000 | 1,439 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Cates, IN |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
phoebe cates | 926 | phoebe cates nude picture | 8 |
phoebe cates nude | 158 | phoebe cates gallery | 8 |
cates | 107 | phebe cates | 8 |
pheobe cates | 91 | cates nude | 7 |
phoebe cates naked | 31 | cates phoebe song | 6 |
phobe cates | 30 | cates nude phobe | 6 |
phoebe cates pic | 25 | bill cates | 6 |
phoebe cates picture | 24 | phoebe cates bikini | 6 |
georgina cates | 22 | cates park | 6 |
cates paradise phoebe | 21 | biography cates phoebe | 6 |
darlene cates | 16 | phoebe cates nude photo | 5 |
nude pheobe cates | 16 | cates fast phoebe times | 5 |
shawnee cates | 14 | cates glass lee | 5 |
phoebe cates photo | 12 | cates movie nude phoebe | 5 |
cates free nude phoebe | 12 | cates ronny | 5 |
cates challen | 10 | cates fake nude phoebe | 5 |
image of phoebe cates | 10 | cates valerie | 4 |
auction cates | 10 | buchanan cates | 4 |
phoebe cates topless | 10 | cates lace phoebe | 4 |
phoebe cates nude pic | 10 | cates kevin kline phoebe | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CATES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | Guloseima (dainty, delicacy, luxury, sweet, tidbit, titbit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CATES": abdicates, adjudicates, advocates, affricates, allocates, altercates, aluminosilicates, authenticates, bifurcates, borosilicates, catholicates, certificates, collocates, colocates, communicates, complicates, confiscates, contraindicates, coruscates, decorticates, dedicates, defalcates, defecates, delicates, demarcates, deprecates, desiccates, detoxicates, disintoxicates, dislocates, divaricates, domesticates, duplicates, educates, equivocates, eradicates, excommunicates, explicates, exsiccates, extricates, fabricates, fantasticates, fornicates, furcates, hypothecates, imbricates, implicates, imprecates, inculcates, indicates, intercommunicates. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CATES": delicatessen, delicatessens. (additional references) | |
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"CATES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cantes, Catel, Caths, Cautes, Cawte, Ceratec, Cetes, Chates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CATES" (pronounced kā"ts) |
| 4 | k ā" t s | skates. |
| 3 | -ā" t s | abates, annotates, Ates, awaits, baits, Bates, conflates, conjugates, crates, creates, dates, debates, dictates, eights, equates, estates, fates, gates, grates, greats, hates, inflates, mates, misstates, narrates, negates, pates, plates, predates, procreates, rates, relates, restates, sates, slates, spates, States, straights, straits, traits, translates, updates, waits, weights. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: caste, cesta, taces. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-s-t" | |
-1 letter: aces, acts, ates, case, cast, cate, cats, east, eats, etas, sate, scat, seat, sect, seta, tace, teas. | |
-2 letters: ace, act, ate, cat, eat, eta, sac, sae, sat, sea, sec, set, tae, tas, tea. | |
-3 letters: ae, as, at, es, et, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-s-t" | |
+1 letter: acutes, ascent, aspect, cadets, carets, cartes, casket, caster, castes, castle, caters, centas, cestas, chaste, cheats, cleats, costae, crates, cuesta, eclats, enacts, epacts, exacts, facets, reacts, recast, sachet, scathe, secant, stacte, stance, taches, traces. | |
+2 letters: accents, accepts, acetals, acetins, acetose, acetous, acetyls, achiest, acquest, actives, actress, acutest, advects, affects, aitches, ascents, ascetic, ascites, aseptic, aspects, avocets, backset, batches, cablets, cachets, caestus, cagiest, cakiest, callets, calmest, camlets, canters, cantles, caplets, capotes, carates, carnets, carpets, cartels, carters, caseate, casette, caskets, casters, castled, castles, catches, catenas, catties, caveats, celesta, centals, cerates, cetanes, chalets, chasten, chaster, chetahs, cineast, clarets, coasted, coaster, coatees, coaters, comates, costate, coteaus, craters, creates, crestal, cristae, cuestas, curates, cuspate, decants, descant, ecartes, ecstasy, ectases, ectasis, elastic, escheat, eustacy, exactas, faucets, hatches, hepcats, jackets, laciest, lactase, lactose, lancets, latches, latices, locates, matches, nascent, nectars, nutcase, octanes, octaves, packets, patches, pectase, placets, preacts, precast, rachets, raciest, rackets, ratches, recants, recasts, redacts, restack, retacks, saccate, sachets, satchel, scanted, scanter, scarlet, scarted, scathed, scathes, scatted, scatter, scutage, scutate, secants, sectary, sematic, setback, spectra, spicate, stacked, stacker, stactes, stances, statice, stearic, sulcate, tackers, tackets, tackles, talcose, tanrecs, teaches, teacups, tenaces, testacy, toecaps, tracers, trances, vacates, watches. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 54 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- - . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0054 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3735543953 |
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