Catername

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  A surname originating as an occupation.

caterverb詞源 1/ˈkeɪtə/

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  To provide, particularly

  • Noe widdowes curse caters a dish of mine.
  • Priya’s parents’ Hinduism seemed to present conflicting views of sex: […] What people don’t know about the Kama Sutra is that it’s actually a text that … very heavily caters to Madonna/whore complexes. That it’s actually quite misogynistic. And that it’s actually catered more for male pleasure and … males always will have the upper hand according to the Kama Sutra.
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  To provide

  • I catered for her bat mitzvah.
  • His company catered our wedding.
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  To provide

  • I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim.
  • Art... was... catering to the national taste and vanity.
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  To provide

  • The business caters for young professionals.
  • A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".

caternoun詞源 1/ˈkeɪtə/

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  obsoleteSynonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.

  • I am oure Catour and bere oure Alther purse.
  • Rec. for iij calvys off þe cater of Crystis Cherche.
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  obsoleteSynonym of caterer: any provider of food.

  • Of his diete catour was scarsite...
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  obsoleteSynonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.

  • The eye is loues Cator.

caterverb詞源 2

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  dialectalTo place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.

  • The trees are set checkerwise, and so catred [Latin: partim in quincuncem directis], as looke which way ye wyl, they lye leuel.
  • ‘Cater’ across the rails ever so cleverly, you cannot escape jolt and jar.

cateradv詞源 2

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  dialectalDiagonally.

  • Cater and Cater-cornered, diagonal; diagonally. To ‘cut cater’ in the case of velvet, cloth, etc., is... ‘cut on the cross’. Cater-snozzle, to make an angle; to ‘mitre’.

caternoun詞源 3/ˈkeɪtə/

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  obsoleterareFour.

  • The auditour... cometh in with sise sould, and cater denere, for vi.s. and iiii.d.
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  obsoletecard-gamesdicegamesThe four of cards or dice.

  • Cater is a very good caste.
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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.

  • The very terms of the art are enough to frighten an amateur. Hunting, dodging... caters, cinques, etc.
  • Cater... The name given by change ringers to changes of nine bells. The word should probably be written quaters, as it is meant to denote the fact that four couples of bells change their places in the order of ringing.