ate

verb
UK: /eɪt/
US: /eɪt/

  1. Past simple of eat: to put food in your mouth and swallow it.

    1. I ate an apple. [ ] [ ]
    2. They ate all the cookies before I could even try one, which was rude. [ ] [ ]
ate abbreviation

  1. In computing, indicates termination of execution of a program, primarily in the mainframe environment.

    1. The job ate because of an unhandled exception. [ ] [ ]
    2. The system administrator confirmed that the batch process ate due to a memory allocation error. [ ] [ ]

Frequently Asked Questions

The phonetic transcription of "ate" is /eɪt/ in British English and /eɪt/ in American English. Click the 🔊 button to hear both pronunciations.

Example usage of "ate": "I ate an apple.". More examples on the page.