Sekirov Dictionary

cater

UK /ˈkeɪtə/US /ˈkeɪɾɚ/

verb 5
noun 6
adverb 1
forms 5

verb5

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To provide.
- Noe widdowes curse caters a dish of mine. — 1635
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To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
- I catered for her bat mitzvah.
- His company catered our wedding.
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To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander.
- I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim.
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To tailor something to an intended audience.
- The business caters for young professionals.
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(dialect, UK) To 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. — 1577

noun6

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A 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. — 1872
(no longer used) Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.
(no longer used) Synonym of caterer: any provider of food.
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(figurative, no longer used) Synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.
- The eye is loues Cator. — 1590
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(no longer used, rare) Four.
- The auditour... cometh in with sise sould, and cater denere, for vi.s. and iiii.d. — 1553
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(no longer used) The four of cards or dice.
- Cater is a very good caste. — 1519

adverb1

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(dialect, US) Diagonally.
- 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’. — 1881

forms

catered · catering · catereth · caters · caterest

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