Pate
noun
The top of a person's head.
He is bald on his pate.
Often appears as...
- bald on his pate
- scratched his pate
noun
A mixture of cooked ground meat and fat minced into a spreadable paste.
For lunch, he enjoyed some bread with pate.
Often appears as...
- pate with bread
- pate and crackers
noun
The human head, especially the skull or the brain inside.
After the accident, he had a severe injury to his pate.
Often appears as...
- injury to his pate
- hit his pate
noun
The top of a person's head.
He is bald on his pate.
Often appears as...
- bald on his pate
- scratched his pate
noun
A mixture of cooked ground meat and fat minced into a spreadable paste.
For lunch, he enjoyed some bread with pate.
Often appears as...
- pate with bread
- pate and crackers
noun
The human head, especially the skull or the brain inside.
After the accident, he had a severe injury to his pate.
Often appears as...
- injury to his pate
- hit his pate
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Description
Use 'pate' for describing someone's head in a playful or quirky tone.
His hat was perched atop his pate.
Pro Tip 2/3Not for Hair
'Pate' refers to the top of the head, not the hair, focusing on the scalp and skull.
She kissed the baby's soft pate gently.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Sometimes 'pate' is used figuratively to suggest someone's mind or thoughts.
Ideas brewed in the scientist's pate before invention.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Description
Use 'pate' for describing someone's head in a playful or quirky tone.
His hat was perched atop his pate.
Pro Tip 2/3Not for Hair
'Pate' refers to the top of the head, not the hair, focusing on the scalp and skull.
She kissed the baby's soft pate gently.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Sometimes 'pate' is used figuratively to suggest someone's mind or thoughts.
Ideas brewed in the scientist's pate before invention.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Description
Use 'pate' for describing someone's head in a playful or quirky tone.
His hat was perched atop his pate.
Pro Tip 2/3Not for Hair
'Pate' refers to the top of the head, not the hair, focusing on the scalp and skull.
She kissed the baby's soft pate gently.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Sometimes 'pate' is used figuratively to suggest someone's mind or thoughts.
Ideas brewed in the scientist's pate before invention.
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Ladies and gentlemen,...
now I am alone my a coward who calls me villain breaks my pate across plucks off my beard and blows it in my face tweaks me about the nose gives me the
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Boy To Man PIPE National...
nomadic ways and for some of the world's more painful rites of passage in a remote region of northern benin west africa the pate prepares for his
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Ladies and gentlemen,...
now I am alone my a coward who calls me villain breaks my pate across plucks off my beard and blows it in my face tweaks me about the nose gives me the
Video examples
Boy To Man PIPE National...
nomadic ways and for some of the world's more painful rites of passage in a remote region of northern benin west africa the pate prepares for his
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Quote examples
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
French Chef
My grandmother taught me how to make the basic pate brise pastry crust when I was young. The one thing I learned simply by eating her endless variations on delicious tarts for dinner every night is that this dough can be used for just about anything - sweet or savory.
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Claire Saffitz
American Editor
Pate a choux is a mixture of simple ingredients - flour, water, milk, eggs - but the proper technique is essential. Unlike other doughs, the pastry is pre-cooked on the stovetop before being enriched with eggs, piped, and baked.
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Jonathan Miles
For centuries, pates have been one of the greatest vehicles for wild game. But making a pate, which is nothing more than a meatloaf, has tended to be a laborious task, with ingredient lists as long as a shotgun barrel.
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Kingsley Amis
English Novelist
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten
French Chef
My grandmother taught me how to make the basic pate brise pastry crust when I was young. The one thing I learned simply by eating her endless variations on delicious tarts for dinner every night is that this dough can be used for just about anything - sweet or savory.
Quote examples
Claire Saffitz
American Editor
Pate a choux is a mixture of simple ingredients - flour, water, milk, eggs - but the proper technique is essential. Unlike other doughs, the pastry is pre-cooked on the stovetop before being enriched with eggs, piped, and baked.
Quote examples
Jonathan Miles
For centuries, pates have been one of the greatest vehicles for wild game. But making a pate, which is nothing more than a meatloaf, has tended to be a laborious task, with ingredient lists as long as a shotgun barrel.
Quote examples
Kingsley Amis
English Novelist
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
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