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In transitive terms the difference between bate and anger

is that bate is to soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate while anger is to cause such a feeling of antagonism.

In intransitive terms the difference between bate and anger

is that bate is to contend or strive with blows or arguments while anger is to become angry.

bate

English

Etymology 1

Aphetic from (abate).

Verb

(bat)
  • To reduce the force of something; to abate.
  • * Dryden
    • Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine.
  • To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation; as, with bated breath .
  • (transitive, sometimes, figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
  • * Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue :
    • He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
  • * Holland
    • About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare.
  • (archaic) To leave out, except, bar.
  • * 1610 , , act 2, scene 1:
    • (Sebastian) "Bate , I beseech you, widow Dido."
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood, / He lies that says it.
  • To waste away.
  • * 1597 , , act 3, scene 3:
    • (Falstaff) "Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? do I not bate ? do I not dwindle?"
  • To deprive of.
  • * Herbert
    • When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake.
  • To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
  • * John Locke
    • He must either bate the labourer's wages, or not employ or not pay him.
  • To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
  • * South
    • to whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament

    References

    * 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.

    Etymology 2

    * Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun (debate). * Verb: From Anglo-Saxon = contention. From (etyl) batre (French battre). From batere.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Strife; contention.
  • * 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2 :
    • ... and wears his boots very smooth, like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no bate with telling of discreet stories;
  • * 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (Arabian Nights)
    • So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing;
  • * 1911, H.G. Wells, The New Machiavelli :
    • The other merely needs jealousy and bate , of which there are great and easily accessible reservoirs in every human heart.

    Verb

    (bat)
  • To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
  • (falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    See also

    * (to contend or strive with blows or arguments) bait.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
  • A vat which contains this liquid.

    • Verb

    (bat)
  • To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.

    • References

    * 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (editors), volume 1, page 459.

    Etymology 4

    Formed by analogy with eat ? ate, with which it shares an analogous past participle (eaten ? beaten).

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nonstandard) (beat); = beat.
  • * 2008 October 20th, , episode 5: “The Euclid Alternative”
    • . Goodnight.

    Etymology 5

    Shortening of (m).

    Verb

    (bat)
  • (slang) To masturbate.

    • Anagrams

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    anger

    English

    (wikipedia anger)

    Noun

  • A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
  • (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
  • * {{quote-book, 1660, , 3= Mensa mystica, page=322, year_published=1717
    • , passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;
  • * Temple
    • I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.

    Synonyms

    * (strong feeling of antagonism) * See also

    Derived terms

    () * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in anger

    Related terms

    () * anguish * anxiety * anxious

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
    • Don't anger me.
  • To become angry.
    • You anger too easily.

    Synonyms

    * (to cause anger) enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate * (to become angry) get angry (see angry for more)

    References

    * * Notes:

    Anagrams

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