Pate

Definition: Pate

Pate

Noun

1. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.

2. The top of the head.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: Pate

Intellect

Brain, organ of thought, seat of thought; sensorium, sensory; head, headpiece; pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull,

Summit

Tip, tip top; crest, crow's nest, cap, truck, nib; end; crown, brow; head, nob, noddle, pate; capsheaf.

Crosswords: Pate

German (godfather, godparent, sponsor), Samoan (bat), Turkish (pate).

Pate Katelin en Buenos Aires (1969)

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References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Dairy Substitutes and Vegetarian Pate Spreads (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Les Sept Mamm Goz and La Pate a Crepes (reference)

• Making Your Own Pate (reference)

• Pate - Sur - Pate (reference)

• Quiche and Pate (Great American Cooking Schools) (reference)

• Terrines and Pate and Galantines (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Canadian Market Pulp Statistics = Statistiques Canadiennes Pate Commerc (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Der Pate [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Pate dentifrice : du Docteur Pierre de la faculté de Médecine de Paris / B. Monvel. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

L'Invention d'Une Nouvelle Pate Pectorale. / Ch. Jacque. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Photographed in Washington, D.C., in November 1947. This print has been autographed by those present (from left to right): Colonel Randolph M. Pate, USMC; Rear Admiral W.F. Boone, USN; Vice Admiral Charles H. McMorris, USN; Admiral John H. Towers, USN; Rear Admiral Charles B. Momsen, USN; Captain Huffman, USN; Commander Lee, USN, and Captain Arleigh A. Burke, USN. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The average café or tavern offers cheese, ham, pate, sandwiches, salads, omelets and Italian-style foods such as spaghetti and lasagna. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

Examples of convenience items in demand include frozen fish soup, snack/finger foods, fish pate and marinated seafood. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "pate": bald pate ♦ duck pate ♦ empty pate ♦ pate a choux ♦ pate de foie gras ♦ pate feuillete. Additional references.

Beginning with "pate": pate-job.

Ending with "pate": Addle-pate, curly-pate, rattle-pate.

Afrikaans

kop (head). (various references)

Albanian

kokë (block, bulb, catchword, conk, dome, head, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, poll, pommel). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معجون كبد الأوز, ‏قمة الرأس (top, vertex), ‏عقل (brains, intellect, intelligence, layer, mentality, mind, picket, psyche, reason, sense, skull, steady, wit), ‏رأس (apex, bean, cos, head, noggin, point, poll, preside, superintend, tip, top, trunk, vertex). (various references)

Bulgarian 

теме (corona, crown, pericranium, poll, sconce, vertex), тиква (knob, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pumpkin, squash), глава (attic, beer, bulb, chief, chump, compartment, conk, crumpet, head, knob, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, poll, sconce, topknot), пастет (forcemeat, paste), пай (contingent, divvy, pie, portion, share, slice, whack), пирожка. (various references)

Catalan

cap (head, to). (various references)

Chinese 

头脑 (mind). (various references)

Danish

hoved (head). (various references)

Dutch

krop (head), kop (cup, degree, head, heading, title), hoofd (boss, chief, column, head, header, superscription). (various references)

Esperanto

pasteĉo (pie), kapo (head). (various references)

Faeroese

høvur (head), høvd (head). (various references)

Farsi 

مغز (Brain, Kernel, Marrow, Mind, Nucleus), کله (Brain, Head, Pash), سریاقسمتی ازسرانسان , سر (Acme, Apex, Cabal, Chief, Corona, End, Extremity, Mystery, Pash, Plug, Point, Ruler, Secret, Thought, Top, Vertex). (various references)

Finnish

pää (end, head, point, top). (various references)

French

tête (end panel). (various references)

Frisian

kop (cup, head), holle (head). (various references)

German

Kopf (bowl, brains, ear, head, heading, leader, master mind, mastermind, memory, mind, nose, person, thinker, top, warhead), Pastete (pasty, pie, pudding, vol-au-vent). (various references)

Greek 

κρανίο (cranium, skull), κεφάλι (head, noddle, nut), κεφαλή (head, nob, noodle, poll), πατέ (patй, patι). (various references)

Hawaiian

kokë (head). (various references)

Hungarian

fej (bean, crumpet, head, knob, mask, nab, nob, noddle, nut, skin, to milk, to sponge on), koponya (brainpan, crania, cranio, cranium, death's-head, skull), kobak (bean, can, coconut, crumpet, gourd, nob, noddle). (various references)

Indonesian

kepala (boss, chief, crest, curator, head, heading). (various references)

Irish

ceann (head, head; one). (various references)

Italian

testa (head, noddle, nut, skull, top). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

パチンコ台 (glassed-over arcade, pachinkomachine, pack, package, package media, package program, package tour, packaging, Packard, packing, pad, paddle, paddling, paddock, Panama, Panamax, Panasert hole, panavision, pap, passage, passenger, passing, passion, passionate, passive, passive smoking, passive solar house, passive sonar, pat, patch, patch test, patchwork, patent, pathos, patio, patriotism, patrol, patrol car, patron, patting, priest, puck, putt, putting, putting green, putty, rotating warning light similar to the one on a "patokaa."). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

パテ (putty). (various references)

Lombard

crappa (head), coo (head). (various references)

Manx

claigin (bowl, bowl of pipe, cranium, dome of head, scalp, skull). (various references)

Norwegian

hode (head). (various references)

Papiamen

kabes (head). (various references)

Pig Latin

atepay.(various references)

Polish

głowa (head). (various references)

Portuguese

cabeça (brain, chief, chunk, coconut, head, leader, nob, noddle, nut, top, topknot). (various references)

Romanian

cap (bean, beginning, brains, Cape, chief, chump, end, foreland, front, head, heading, headland, judgment, knob, lid, loaf, mastermind, Mull, Ness, noddle, noggin, nut, peak, peninsula, pericranium, pommel, promontory, rock, sense, skull, top, understanding). (various references)

Russian 

голова (bonce, chump, conk, head, jowl, knob, nob, noggin, noodle, nut, think-tank), обрывочный (scrappy), макушка (vertex), паштет (pasty). (various references)

Scottish

ceann (chief, conclusion, end, ending, extremity, head). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pašteta (liverwurst, pasty, pie), glava (head, headpiece, knob, loaf, noddle, noggin, noodle, scone). (various references)

Spanish

cabeza (bean, chapeau, chump, coryphaeus, father, head, lead, nob, noodle, rocker, testa, top). (various references)

Sranan

ede (account, head, reason). (various references)

Swahili

kichwa (head). (various references)

Swedish

skalle (conk, cranium, crumpet, dome, loaf, noddle, noggin, skull). (various references)

Tagalog

úlò (head). (various references)

Turkish

pate, kelle (bean, chump, head, nob, poll, sconce), kafa (bean, brains, cast of mind, chump, coconut, conk, costard, end, head, headpiece, intelligence, knob, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, poll, potato, savvy, sconce), ezme (crush, crushing, grinding, mash, mashing, paste, pomace, pulverization, puree, scrunch, spoon meat), etli börek (meat pie, melton pie, pasty, shepherd's pie), boş kafa, bax (boss, chief, head, leader). (various references)

Ukrainian

голова (attic, bean, chair, chairman, chief, conk, head, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, president, topknot), маківка (cupola, poll). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đầu óc. (various references)

Welsh

pen (apex, chief, end, head, summit, supreme, surface, top), sio\l (skull), sia+d, iad. (various references)

Yucatec

pol (head), ho'ol (head, skull). (various references)

Zulu

ilikhanda (head), ikhanda (head). (various references)

caput, patina. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pate": pated, patella, patellae, patellar, patellas, patelliform, paten, patencies, patency, patens, patent, patentabilities, patentability, patentable, patented, patentee, patentees, patenting, patently, patentor, patentors, patents, pater, paterfamilias, paternal, paternalism, paternalisms, paternalist, paternalistic, paternalistically, paternalists, paternally, paternities, paternity, paternoster, paternosters, paters, pates. (additional references)

Words ending with "pate": anticipate, archiepiscopate, baldpate, clodpate, conepate, constipate, crispate, cuspate, dissipate, emancipate, episcopate, exculpate, extirpate, inculpate, palpate, participate, pupate, spate, syncopate. (additional references)

Words containing "pate": addlepated, anticipated, anticipates, apatetic, archiepiscopates, baldpates, clodpates, conepates, constipated, constipates, cuspated, dissipated, dissipatedly, dissipatedness, dissipatednesses, dissipater, dissipaters, dissipates, emancipated, emancipates, episcopates, exculpated, exculpates, extirpated, extirpates, hepatectomies, hepatectomized, hepatectomy, inculpated, inculpates, palpated, palpates, participated, participates, peripatetic, peripatetically, peripatetics, pupated, pupates, spates, syncopated, syncopates, unanticipated, unanticipatedly, unpatentable, zapateado, zapateados, zapateo, zapateos. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apate, apte, apter, apti, Ipatyev, Paata, pabe, pache, pade, Padee, padme, padoe, paet, pait, Paita, paite, paje, Pajtim, palte, pame, pante, Pantea, pantee, paoe, paota, parte, partee, partem, pashe, pata, patae, Patak, Patar, Patay, patei, patel, patet, patew, patez, Pathet, pati, patia, patic, patie, patk, patme, pato, Patob, patoe, patrem, patta, patte, patti, Patto, pattu, Patu, patzer, paxe, Paytoe, paze, pcte, peata, peate, peet, perate, peta, Petey, peti, peto, pette, petu, phate, pite, pitoe, Pitoeff, pitre, pitte, pota, Pote, potem, poti, potte, powte, pta, Ptak, ptate, ptew, pute, puteh, putey, puti, putte. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: peat, tape, tepa.

-1 letter: ape, apt, ate, eat, eta, pat, pea, pet, tae, tap, tea.

-2 letters: ae, at, et, pa, pe, ta.

+1 letter: adept, apter, epact, etape, expat, leapt, lepta, palet, paste, pated, paten, pater, pates, peart, peats, peaty, petal, pieta, plate, pleat, prate, septa, spate, taped, taper, tapes, taupe, tepal, tepas.

+2 letters: accept, adepts, aplite, aptest, arpent, aspect, caplet, capote, carpet, depart, enrapt, entrap, epacts, etapes, expats, hapten, hepcat, heptad, lappet, metepa, opiate, packet, palate, palest, palets, pallet, palter, panted, pantie, parent, parget, parted, pasted, pastel, paster, pastes, pastie, patens, patent, paters, patine, patted, pattee, patten, patter, pattie, patzer, peanut, pedant, pedate, pelota, pentad, peseta, petals, petard, petnap, petsai, pietas, pineta, pirate, placet, planet, plated, platen, plater, plates, pleats, potage, prated, prater, prates, preact, pretax, protea, pupate, repast, repeat, retape, sapote, septal, spates, spathe, stapes, staple, takeup, tamped, tamper, tapers, tapeta, tapped, tapper, tappet, taupes, tawpie, teacup, teapot, teapoy, teopan, tepals, tephra, teraph, threap, toecap, trapes, trepan, upbeat, update, uprate, uptake, uptear, watape.