ate
verb
uk
/et/ /eɪt/ us
/eɪt/Meaning of ate in English
(Definition of ate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
ate | American Dictionary
ate
us
/eɪt/past simple of eat
Examples of ate
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Therefore, we hypothesized that those children affected would have a preference for the foods they actually ate in a visual ' line-up ' of all the items.
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Meals were eaten in the living room, rather than in the kitchen and all the family ate together at the same table.
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What one wore to dinner, where one sat and with whom, and what one ate and drank all served as indexes of class.
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Captive agoutis and squirrels readily ate larvae when presented without the surrounding endocarp, and preferred larvae to seeds.
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We found i that spider monkeys swallowed seeds from almost all of the species from which they ate ripe fruits.
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On the road, the players encountered segregation that often required they roomed apart from the rest of the team, or ate alone in their rooms.
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A further individual not being supplied with the farm milk at home, ate at a restaurant, which was supplied with milk from the farm.
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Nevertheless, 27 people ate highly contaminated dairy products and did not develop any clinical symptoms.
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The termites lived in confined spaces free of predation and competition, ate ad libitum and were shielded from seasonal extremes of temperature and humidity.
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They lived in quarters in which humans had lived, ate human food at tables from dishes with forks and spoons, and drank from cups.
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The rise in their living standards brought about a change in what they ate.
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Household members lived together, ate together, and farmed together.
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If they ate separately, it meant that each wife had her own territory.
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They gained 2.6 kg compared to subjects who ate the same foods artificially sweetened.
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I ate nothing the rest of the day.
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