Rat

[ræt]

解释:

(noun.) any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.

(noun.) a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure.

(verb.) catch rats, especially with dogs.

(verb.) give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat.

(verb.) employ scabs or strike breakers in.

(verb.) desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage.

珍妮特编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World.

(n.) A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.

(n.) One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.

(v. i.) In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.

(v. i.) To catch or kill rats.

编辑:苏珊娜

同义词及近义词：

v. n. Desert one's party (from interested motives), bolt.

编辑:卢克

解释:

n. an animal of the genus Mus larger and more destructive than the mouse: a renegade turncoat: a workman who accepts lower than the authorised wages who declines to join in a strike or who takes a striker's work: a roll of anything used to puff out the hair which is turned over it.—v.i. (coll.) to desert one's party and join their opponents for gain or power: to take lower than current wages to refuse to join in a strike to take a striker's place:—pr.p. rat′ting; pa.p. and pa.t. rat′ted.—ns. Rat′-catch′er one whose business it is to catch rats; Rat′-catch′ing; Rat′-hole (print.) a pigeon-hole; Rat′-pit an enclosure where rats are killed; Rat′-poi′son a preparation of arsenic; Rat's′-bane poison for rats: arsenious acid; Rat′-tail an excrescence growing on a horse's leg.—adj. Rat′-tailed having a tail like a rat.—ns. Rat′ter a terrier which catches rats; Rat′tery apostasy; Rat′ting deserting one's principles: working for less than the usual prices: setting a dog to kill rats in a pit; Rat′-trap a trap for catching rats.—Rat-tailed larva the larva of certain syrphid flies.—Smell a rat to have a suspicion.

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