Chess

[tʃes] or [tʃɛs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king.

(noun.) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat.

錄入:欧文--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

(n.) A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus.

錄入:内德

解釋/意思:

n. a game of skill for two persons or parties played with figures or 'pieces ' which are moved on a chequered board.—n. Chess′-board the board on which chess is played.—n.pl. Chess′-men pieces used in chess.

n. one of the parallel planks of a pontoon-bridge—generally in pl.

校對:罗尼