PRATE
\pɹˈe͡ɪt], \pɹˈeɪt], \p_ɹ_ˈeɪ_t]\
Definitions of PRATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
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To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
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Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To talk much and idly.
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Trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
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To utter foolishly.
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To talk much and to little purpose; to babble.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By James Champlin Fernald
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- series of gastrointestinal disorders which share in common excessive loss protein, mainly albumin, across gut wall. occur stomach (Menetrier disease), as well the small bowel (intestinal lymphangiectases, assorted inflammatory states). They are also occasionally associated with congestive heart failure (again a bowel protein loss).