Stale

[steɪl] or [stel]

解释:

(verb.) urinate, of cattle and horses.

(adj.) lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; 'stale bread'; 'the beer was stale' .

录入:费尔普斯--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.

(v. i.) Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.

(v. i.) Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.

(v. i.) Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.

(v. i.) Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.

(v. t.) To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.

(a.) To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.

(v. i.) That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.

(v. i.) A prostitute.

(v. i.) Urine, esp. that of beasts.

(v. t.) Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.

(v. t.) A stalking-horse.

(v. t.) A stalemate.

(v. t.) A laughingstock; a dupe.

校对:桑福德

同义词及近义词:

a. [1]. Vapid, tasteless, insipid, mawkish, flat, flashy, musty, fusty, sour, not fresh.[2]. Old, decayed, faded, effete, time-worn, worn out, not new.[3]. Trite, common, hackneyed, commonplace, threadbare, not novel.

亨利录入

同义词及反义词:

SYN:Vapid, tasteless, threadbare, commonplace, hackneyed

ANT:Fresh,[See BLEMISH]

亚历山大校对

解释:

adj. too long kept: tainted: vapid or tasteless from age as beer: not new: worn out by age: decayed: no longer fresh trite: in athletics over-trained hence unfit as in 'gone stale.'—n. anything become stale: urine of cattle &c.: (Shak.) a whore.—v.t. to render insipid to make common.—v.i. to make water as beasts.—adv. Stale′ly.—n. Stale′ness.

n. something offered or exhibited as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose: (Spens.) a decoy a gull: (Shak.) a dupe laughing-stock.—n. Stall a thief's assistant.

n. the handle of anything a stalk.

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