Picture a boot with a thin blade under it: you push once and keep , because almost nothing is touching the ice. That boot, the version of it, and the itself are one word. The flat sea fish also spelled skate came into English separately.
From the word’s history
Two unrelated words share the spelling. The ice skate is from 1660s, from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schaetse, possibly from Old North French escache 'a stilt, trestle' — early skates were leg bones of horse, ox or deer strapped to the feet. The fish is much older in English, mid-14c., from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse skata, Danish skade.
這是兩個拼法相同、來源不同的字。冰鞋的 skate 在1660年代從荷蘭語 schaats 進入英文，可能可以追到古北法語 escache（高蹺、支架）；早年的冰刀其實是把馬、牛或鹿的腿骨綁在腳底。魚的 skate 進入英文早得多，十四世紀中葉來自北歐語言，如古諾斯語 skata、丹麥語 skade。所以不必勉強把魚和冰鞋想成同一個畫面。
Online Etymology Dictionary, entries 'skate (n.1)' and 'skate (n.2)' (etymonline.com/word/skate)
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原始詞典資料16 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Skatename
- 1
slanglifestyleThe ship of characters James "Sawyer" Ford and Kate Austen from the television series Lost.
- But 'Skate' fans ended the series quite disappointed in him, as it seems that even after leaving with Kate, they couldn't be together.
- (I've never subscribed to either of the Kate ships on the show, but even I was almost a Skate convert in that moment.)
skatenoun詞源 1/skeɪt/
- 1
A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
- They open or shut, according as the foot to which the skate is attached moves downwards or upwards and the swimmer advances by the alternate motion of his limbs, as in mounting a stair, keeping the body and head inclined a little forward, as in skating.
- 2
The act of skateboarding
- There's time for a quick skate before dinner.
- 3
The act of roller skating or ice skating
- The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.
- 4
rail-transportrailwaystransportA makeshift handcar.
skateverb詞源 1/skeɪt/
- 1
To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
- 2
To skateboard.
- 3
hobbieslifestyleskiingTo use the skating technique.
- 4
slangTo get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
- 5
To move smoothly and easily.
- Addressing a short pass from Henderson, he always felt too smart for Mykola Matviyenko, taking a step to lure him one way; dropping his shoulder and skating in the other direction, further inside.
skateadj詞源 1/skeɪt/
- 1
hobbieslifestyleskiingPertaining to the technique of skating.
skatenoun詞源 2/skeɪt/
- 1
A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body.
- The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking.
- Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.
skatenoun詞源 3/skeɪt/
- 1
A worn-out horse, a nag, a jade.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- ice skate
- roller skate
- skite
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。