Cant
[kænt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) insincere talk about religion or morals.
(verb.) heel over; 'The tower is tilting'; 'The ceiling is slanting'.
手打:温迪--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A corner; angle; niche.
(n.) An outer or external angle.
(n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
(n.) A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant.
(n.) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
(n.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
(n.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
(v. t.) To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
(v. t.) To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
(v. t.) To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
(n.) An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
(n.) The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.
(n.) The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
(n.) Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
(a.) Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
(v. i.) To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
(v. i.) To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
(v. i.) To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
(n.) A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.
(v. t.) to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
黛娜編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Whining or affected speech.[2]. Hypocrisy, pretence.[3]. Peculiar form of speech, professional terms.[4]. Slang, barbarous jargon, low language, inelegant expression.[5]. Auction, vendue, auction sale.[6]. Turn, tilt, slant.
a. [1]. Hypocritical, insincere, hollow, canting.[2]. Vulgar, barbarous, unauthorized, inelegant.
整理:韦尔登
解釋/意思:
adj. brisk: lively.
n. an inclination from the level: a toss or jerk: a sloping or tilted position: one of the segments forming a side-piece in the head of a cask: a ship's timber lying obliquely to the line of the keel.—v.t. to turn on the edge or corner: to tilt or toss suddenly.—ns. Cant′ing tilting; Cant′ing-coin; Cant′ing-wheel; Cant′-rail a timber running along the tops of the upright pieces in the sides of the body of a railway-carriage and supporting the roof and roof-sticks.
n. sale by auction.—v.t. to sell by auction.
v.i. to speak in a conventional manner: to use the language of thieves &c.: to talk in an affectedly solemn or hypocritical way.—n. a hypocritical or affected style of speech: the language peculiar to a sect: odd or peculiar talk of any kind: slang: a common saying: affected use of religious phrases or sentiments.—n. Cant′er one who cants a beggar: one who makes hypocritical professions.—adj. Cant′ing whining pretending to piety: (her.) allusive (see Allusive).
黛西手打
例句/造句/用法:
- Much cant have I heard and read about 'maiden modesty,' but, properly used, and not hackneyed, the words are good and appropriate words. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Party speeches were delivered, which clothed the question in cant, and veiled its simple meaning in a woven wind of words. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- You must penetrate the ponderous vocabulary, the professional cant to the insight beneath or you scoff at the mountain ranges of words and phrases. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- That cant about cures was never got up by sound practitioners. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- All that cant--excuse me, but I repeat the word--all that _cant_ about soldiers and parsons is most offensive in my ears. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Sheep was a cant word of the time for a spy, under the gaolers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I say a horse at a canter coming up, Joe. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- You could give 'em the whole outfit and win at a canter! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Come, Polly, will you have a canter? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It was not a trot, a gallop, or a canter, but a stampede, and made up of all possible or conceivable gaits. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- That was plainly to be seen, for Ma was talking then at her usual canter, with arched head and mane, opened eyes and nostrils. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- She would canter up to the door on her pony, followed by a mounted livery servant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- As the latter moves up and down the pins play upon the under side of the lower arm of the rocking-lever, thus canting it and pushing the type-wheels to the right or left, as the case may be. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
手打:索菲