Camp

[kæmp]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; 'wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling'.

(noun.) temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; 'level ground is best for parking and camp areas'.

(noun.) a penal institution (often for forced labor); 'China has many camps for political prisoners'.

(noun.) a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months; 'city kids get to see the country at a summer camp'.

(noun.) shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs.

(noun.) something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; 'the living room was pure camp'.

(noun.) a group of people living together in a camp; 'the whole camp laughed at his mistake'.

(verb.) give an artificially banal or sexual quality to.

(verb.) establish or set up a camp.

(verb.) live in or as if in a tent; 'Can we go camping again this summer?'; 'The circus tented near the town'; 'The houseguests had to camp in the living room'.

(adj.) providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; 'they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect'; 'campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's' .

戴维斯整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.

(n.) A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.

(n.) A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.

(n.) The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.

(n.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.

(n.) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.

(v. t.) To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.

(v. i.) To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.

(n.) To play the game called camp.

整理:莎丽

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Encampment.

v. n. Encamp, pitch one's tent, pitch a camp.

珍妮特編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Encamp, bivouac

手打:温迪

解釋/意思:

n. (obs.) conflict: an old form of the game of football.—v.i. to fight struggle.—v.i. Cam′ple to wrangle.

n. the ground on which an army pitch their tents: the tents of an army quarters generally a permanent military station as at Aldershot: any fortified site in which a force once defended itself as a Roman or British camp: any temporary quarters for travellers &c.—v.i. to encamp or pitch tents.—ns. Camp′-foll′ower any one who follows in the train of an army but takes no part in battle; Camp′meet′ing a religious gathering held in the open air or in a temporary encampment in the fields; Camp′-shed′ding -sheet′ing -shot an erection of piles &c. along the bank of a river or an embankment for strengthening; Camp′-stool or -bed′stead a portable folding-stool a trestle-bed.

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