Butt

[bʌt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) thick end of the handle.

(noun.) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking).

(noun.) a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons).

(noun.) a victim of ridicule or pranks.

(noun.) the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots.

(verb.) to strike, thrust or shove against; 'He butted his sister out of the way'; 'The goat butted the hiker with his horns'.

(verb.) place end to end without overlapping; 'The frames must be butted at the joints'.

整理:桑娅--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) Alt. of But

(v. i.) To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

(v. i.) To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]

(v. t.) To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.

(n.) A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

(n.) The common English flounder.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Mark, object, target, point aimed at.[2]. Laughing-stock.[3]. Stroke, blow.[4]. Cask.

v. n. Bunt, strike with the head or the horns.

埃莉诺校對

解釋/意思:

n. a large cask: a wine-butt = 126 gallons a beer and sherry butt = 108 gallons.

n. a mark for archery practice: a mound behind musketry or artillery targets: one who is made the object of ridicule.—n. Butt′-shaft (Shak.) a shaft or arrow for shooting at butts with.

n. an ox-hide minus the offal or pieces round the margins.

v.i. and v.t. to strike with the head as a goat &c.—n. a push with the head of an animal.—n. Butt′er an animal that butts.

n. the thick and heavy end: the stump.

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