United States poet and critic (1899-1979)
"The literary journal invited a tribute to the late T.S. Eliot, but it mistakenly typed his name as Tate due to an error in the database."
Of video games, a vertical mode.
"The player had to switch the console into tate mode to play the puzzle game on its side."
In plain English: A tate is an old-fashioned word for a large, flat stone used as a building block.
"The tate in her garden was full of ripe tomatoes."
A surname, from given names.
"Many members of the Tate family share a common origin derived from their ancestors' first names."
The word tate was borrowed directly from the Japanese term 縦，which means vertical. It entered English to describe a writing style where characters are arranged vertically rather than horizontally.