fate
IPA: fˈeɪt
noun
- The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- (biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
- (embryology) The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
- Any one of the Fates.
- A personification of fate (the cause that predetermines events).
- (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings). [Any one of the Fates.]
verb
- (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
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Examples of "fate" in Sentences
- She believes in fate.
- Anyone know the fate of the loops
- Nobody know the fate of the Queen.
- The fate of the battle was decided.
- The fate of the vehicle is unknown.
- The fate of the porcupine is unknown.
- The fate of the prototype is unknown.
- This is the vagary and a fate of the country.
- The current fate of the cartoon is in question.
- Fate turns against the usurper and an insurgence seals that fate.
- Through the body of the story, we will see how his fate is achieved.
- While the team's short-term fate is far from certain, its future remains even more unclear.
- To see the memorable characters of Star Trek, Galactica, and Aliens suffer this fate is an atrocity.
- DRAG ME TO HELL (May 29), a loan officer suffers the title fate after evicting an old woman; Alison Lohman and Justin Long star.
- This site urges the government (as well as individual American citizens) to continue the vigil for Maupin until his fate is an absolute certainty.
- Freeman creates a world where asking about your fate is almost like going out for a beer and accepting the answer you get is the most logical thing to do.
- I have no more influence with him, and can no more affect his doings, or what you call his fate — and, to say the truth, care about them no more than the child unborn.
- It the indoctrination at a young age to accept her fate is the abuse I'm referring to, a point you keep avoiding. for the last time, is that indoctrination wrong or not?
- This fate is an inherently superior power ( "eine Übermacht"), a power against which the hero fights ( "kämpft"), but in the face of which he could never hope to be successful (192-93).
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