[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ate \ate\ ?; 277,
   the preterit of eat.
   1913 webster
see also:
eat 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ate \a"te\, n. gr. ?. greek. myth.
   the goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the
   goddess of vengeance.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

-ate \-ate\ from the l. suffix -atus, the past participle
   ending of verbs of the 1st conj.
   1. as an ending of participles or participial adjectives it
      is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or
      animated.
      1913 webster

   2. as the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to
      act, etc.; as, to propitiate to make propitious; to
      animate to give life to.
      1913 webster

   3. as a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate,
      delegate. it also sometimes marks the office or dignity;
      as, tribunate.
      1913 webster

   4. in chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from
      those acids whose names end -ic excepting binary or
      halogen acids; as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate
      from nitric acid, etc. it is also used in the case of
      certain basic salts.
      1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

eat \eat\ =et, v. t. imp. ate =at; 277, obsolescent 
   colloq. eat e^t; p. p. eaten =et"'n, obs. or
   colloq. eat e^t; p. pr.  vb. n. eating. oe. eten,
   as. etan; akin to os. etan, ofries. eta, d. eten, ohg. ezzan,
   g. essen, icel. eta, sw. aumta, dan. aede, goth. itan,
   ir.  gael. ith, w. ysu, l. edere, gr. 'e`dein, skr. ad.
   root6. cf. etch, fret to rub, edible.
   1. to chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially
      of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "to eat grass as
      oxen." --dan. iv. 25.
      1913 webster

            they . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --ps.
                                                  cvi. 28.
      1913 webster

            the lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
                                                  --gen. xli.
                                                  20.
      1913 webster

            the lion had not eaten the carcass.   --1 kings
                                                  xiii. 28.
      1913 webster

            with stories told of many a feat,
            how fairy mab the junkets eat.        --milton.
      1913 webster

            the island princes overbold
            have eat our substance.               --tennyson.
      1913 webster

            his wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
                                                  --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   2. to corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
      cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to
      cause to disappear.
      1913 webster

   to eat humble pie. see under humble.

   to eat of partitive use. "eat of the bread that can not
      waste." --keble.

   to eat one's words, to retract what one has said. see the
      citation under blurt.

   to eat out, to consume completely. "eat out the heart and
      comfort of it." --tillotson.

   to eat the wind out of a vessel naut., to gain slowly to
      windward of her.

   syn: to consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
        1913 webster
see also:
ate eat eaten eating etch fret 
edible to eat humble pie humble to eat of to eat one's words 
blurt to eat out to eat the wind out of a vessel 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

eat
     v 1: take in solid food; "she was eating a banana"; "what did you
          eat for dinner last night?"
     2: eat a meal; take a meal; "we did not eat until 10 p.m.
        because there were so many phone calls"; "i didn't eat
        yet, so i gladly accept your invitation"
     3: take in food; used of animals only; "this dog doesn't eat
        certain kinds of meat"; "what do whales eat?" syn: feed
     4: use up resources or materials; "this car consumes a lot of
        gas"; "we exhausted our savings"; "they run through 20
        bottles of wine a week" syn: consume, eat up, use up,
         deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
     5: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "what's eating
        you?" syn: eat on
     6: cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an
        acid; "the acid corroded the metal"; "the steady dripping
        of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" syn: corrode,
         rust
     also: eaten, ate
see also:
feed consume eat up use up deplete exhaust 
run through wipe out eat on corrode rust 
eaten ate 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ate
     n : goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ate
     see eat
see also:
eat 

[8] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

ate
     asynchronous terminal emulation banyan, vines
     
     

[9] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

ate
     atm terminating equipment sonet, atm
     
     

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