Setter
['setə] or ['sɛtɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point.
校对:梅勒妮--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.
(n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.
(n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.
(n.) One who adapts words to music in composition.
(n.) An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.
(n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.
(v. t.) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
编辑:丽诺尔
解释:
n. one who sets as music to words: a dog which crouches when it scents the game: one who finds out the victims for thieves.—Setter forth one who proclaims or promotes anything; Setter off one who decorates; Setter on an instigator; Setter out one who expounds; Setter up one who establishes.
v.t. (prov.) to cut an ox's dewlap and treat with a seton.—ns. Sett′ering the foregoing process; Sett′er-wort the fetid hellebore.
校对:齐利格
例句:
- The Backus pin-setter is almost human in its operation. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- This I overcame with my loop-setter invention. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The pin-setter relieves the boy of the major and most time-consuming part of this work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Some highly competent authorities are convinced that the setter is directly derived from the spaniel, and has probably been slowly altered from it. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The loop-setter instantly readjusts this loop automatically, keeping it always in force. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The well-groomed chestnut horse and two beautiful setters could leave no doubt that the rider was Sir James Chettam. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- They include trimmers, stitch separators, edge setters, buffers, finishers, cleaners, stampers, shoe treers, creasers, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
手打:洛葛仙妮