Bay

[beɪ] or [be]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color.

(noun.) a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose; 'he opened the bomb bay'.

(noun.) a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital; 'they put him in the sick bay'.

(noun.) the sound of a hound on the scent.

(noun.) an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.

(verb.) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs.

(verb.) utter in deep prolonged tones.

(adj.) (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color .

校對:帕蒂--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.

(n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.

(n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.

(n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.

(n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.

(n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.

(n.) A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.

(n.) A berry, particularly of the laurel.

(n.) The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.

(n.) A tract covered with bay trees.

(v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.

(v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.

(v. i.) Deep-toned, prolonged barking.

(v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

(v. t.) To bathe.

(n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.

(v. t.) To dam, as water; -- with up or back.

整理:谢尔登

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Reddish-brown.

n. [1]. Bight, inlet of the sea.[2]. Recess (as in a room), opening.[3]. Compartment.[4]. Bay-tree, laurel-tree (Laurus nobilis).

v. n. Bark.

整理:凯蒂

解釋/意思:

adj. reddish brown inclining to chestnut.—n. elliptical for 'bay-horse.'—n. Bayard (bā′ard) a bay-horse: a name for any horse generally from 'Bayard ' the famous bay-coloured magic horse given to Renaud by Charlemagne: a man recklessly blind to danger: a fellow bold in his ignorance: a type of the knight from Bayard (1476-1524) 'the knight without fear and without reproach.'

n. an inlet of the sea with a wider opening than a gulf: an inward bend of the shore.

n. barking baying (esp. of a dog when in pursuit): the combined cry of hounds in conflict with a hunted animal: used often of the last stand of a hunted animal when it faces the hounds at close quarters.—v.i. to bark (esp. of large dogs).—v.t. to bark at: to utter by baying: to follow with barking: to bring to bay.—To hold keep at bay said of the hunted animal; To stand be at bay at close quarters.

n. the laurel-tree: (pl.) an honorary garland or crown of victory originally of laurel: literary renown.—ns. Bay′berry; Bay′-rum an aromatic stimulant used for the skin and hair and prepared by distilling the leaves of the bay-berry (Pimenta acris) with rum or otherwise mixing the volatile oil of the leaves with alcohol.

n. the space between two columns: (Shak.) the space under one house gable: any recess.—n. Bay′-win′dow any window forming a recess.—adj. Bay′-win′dowed.

v.t. (Spens.) to bathe.

編輯:蒂姆