Stave
[steɪv] or [stev]
解释:
(noun.) one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket.
(verb.) burst or force (a hole) into something.
(verb.) furnish with staves; 'stave a ladder'.
格罗夫斯整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
(n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
(n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
(n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
(n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
(n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
(n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
(n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
(n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.
(n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
(v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
录入:皮埃尔
同义词及近义词:
n. Stanza, verse, staff.
v. a. Burst, break a hole in, stave in.
克拉丽斯编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Parry, fend, forefend
ANT:Attract, court, draw, invoke, provoke
录入:莱斯特
解释:
n. one of the pieces of which a cask is made: a staff or part of a piece of music: a stanza.—v.t. to break a stave or the staves of: to break: to burst: to drive off as with a staff: to delay:—pa.t. and pa.p. stāved or stōve.
杰德手打
例句:
- A fair stave, Grandfer Cantle; but I am afeard 'tis too much for the mouldy weasand of such a old man as you, he said to the wrinkled reveller. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Folk would say--folk that knowed what a true stave was--'Surely, surely that's never the same man that I saw handling the clarinet so masterly by now! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- I think he'll turn him round: I think the nomination may be staved off. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- But there was no staving off the question, What was to be done? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- There were bodies of constables with blue staves, twenty committee-men with blue scarfs, and a mob of voters with blue cockades. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The stove-pipe fell, dislocated at every joint. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Douglas Galton of the English army for use in barracks, but this stove is also admirably adapted for houses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- We see that the source of carbon dioxide is practically inexhaustible, coming as it does from every stove, furnace, and candle, and further with every breath of a living organism. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Without noticing either of us he went up to the stove and kicked it over. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I was shown a little kitchen with a little stove and oven, with few but bright brasses, two chairs and a table. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I remember, after having witnessed the destructive effects of a fire, I could not even behold a small one in a stove, without a sensation of fear. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
录入:丽莎