Cock
[kɒk] or [kɔk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) adult male bird.
(noun.) adult male chicken.
(noun.) obscene terms for penis.
(verb.) set the trigger of a firearm back for firing.
(verb.) tilt or slant to one side; 'cock one's head'.
整理:威廉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.
(n.) A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
(n.) A chief man; a leader or master.
(n.) The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
(n.) A faucet or valve.
(n.) The style of gnomon of a dial.
(n.) The indicator of a balance.
(n.) The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
(v. t.) To set erect; to turn up.
(v. t.) To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.
(v. t.) To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.
(v. t.) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
(v. i.) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
(n.) The act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock.
(n.) The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
(n.) The hammer in the lock of a firearm.
(v. t.) To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.
(v. i.) To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing.
(n.) A small concial pile of hay.
(v. t.) To put into cocks or heaps, as hay.
(n.) A small boat.
(n.) A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths.
整理:梅纳德
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Chanticleer, ROOSTER.
休整理
解釋/意思:
n. (Shak.) a cock-boat. Now Cock-boat.
n. a small pile of hay.—adj. Cocked heaped up in cocks.
n. the male of birds particularly of the domestic fowl: the time of cock-crowing: a weathercock: a plucky chap a term of familiarity as 'Old cock:' a strutting chief or leader: anything set erect: a tap for liquor: part of the lock of a gun held back by a spring which when released by the trigger produces the discharge.—v.t. to set erect or upright: to set up as the hat: to draw back the cock of a gun: to turn up to one side: to tilt up knowingly inquiringly or scornfully.—v.i. to strut: to swagger.—ns. Cockāde′ a knot of ribbons or something similar worn on the hat as a badge; Cockalō′rum a bumptious little person: a boy's game; Cock′-broth the broth made from a boiled cock; Cock′chafer the May-bug an insect of a pitchy-black colour most destructive to vegetation; Cock′-crow -ing early morning the time at which cocks crow.—adj. Cocked set erect: turned up at one side.—ns. Cock′er one who follows cock-fighting: a small dog of the spaniel kind employed by sportsmen in pheasant and woodcock shooting; Cock′erel a young cock: a young man—also Cock′le whence Cock′le-brained foolish; Cock′-eye a squinting eye: the loop by which a trace is attached to the whipple-tree.—adj. Cock′-eyed.—ns. Cock′-fight -ing a fight or contest between game-cocks: a fight; Cock′-horse a child's rocking-horse.—adj. prancing proud.—adv. properly a-cock-horse = on cock-horse on horseback: exultingly.—ns. Cock′laird (Scot.) a yeoman; Cock′loft the room in a house next the roof; Cock′-match a cock-fight; Cock′pit a pit or enclosed space where game-cocks fought: a room in a ship-of-war for the wounded during an action; Cock′roach the common black beetle; Cocks′comb the comb or crest on a cock's head: a fop: the name of various plants; Cock′shut (Shak.) twilight probably referring to the time when poultry are shut up; Cock′-shy a free throw at a thing as for amusement.—adj. Cock′-sure quite sure often without cause.—n. Cock′swain (see Coxswain).—adjs. Cock′sy Cox′y bumptious.—n. Cock′tail a racing horse that is not thoroughbred: one who apes the gentleman: (U.S.) a drink of spirits flavoured with various ingredients.—adjs. Cock′tailed having the tail cocked or tilted up; Cock′y impudent.—ns. Cock′y-leek′y soup made of a fowl boiled with leeks; Cock′yolly a nursery or pet name for a bird.—Cock-a-doodle-doo the cry of the cock; Cock-a-hoop a phrase expressing reckless exultation; Cock and pie used as an exclamation (see Pie 2); Cocked hat the old-fashioned three-cornered hat the triangular pointed hat worn as part of some full-dress uniforms: a note folded into a three-cornered shape; Cock of the walk chief of a set; Cock's-foot grass a genus of grasses very abundant in Britain and furnishing an important part of both natural and artificial pastures; Cock the eye (coll. humorous) to wink.—A cock-and-bull story an incredible tale.—Full-cock when the cock of a gun is drawn full back: when a tap is full open; Half-cock the position of the cock of a gun when drawn back half the whole distance.—Knock into a cocked hat 'to lick out of shape:' to give a profound beating.
道格拉斯校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Yes, but not on the cock. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- As if it were Cock Robin, the hero of the ballad, and Mr Venus were the sparrow with his bow and arrow, and Mr Wegg were the fly with his little eye. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When the gas cock is closed, the mercury stands at the same level in both arms, but when the cock is opened, the gas whose pressure is being measured forces the mercury up the opposite arm. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I have been looking at the weather-cock. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The cock, being curved like a snake, was called the serpentine. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Of course, you all know _The Cock_ at Sutton? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- It is Lestrade's little cock-a-doodle of victory, Holmes answered, with a bitter smile. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Mr. Bumble wiped from his forehead the perspiration which his walk had engendered, glanced complacently at the cocked hat, and smiled. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Oliver made a bow, which was divided between the beadle on the chair, and the cocked hat on the table. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Pablo pulled and let go as the man had told him and the block snapped forward into place and the pistol was cocked with the hammer back. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- With this hurried adjuration, he cocked his blunderbuss, and stood on the offensive. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Mr Venus knowingly cocked his shock of hair, as rather thinking Mr Wegg had remembered himself, in respect of appearing without any disguise. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A well-bred servant, in a cocked hat and dashing livery entered my room, with many bows. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I lay them ready cocked on a chair by my bedside at night. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- No one had ever carried the hay away and the four seasons that had passed had flattened the cocks and made the hay worthless. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- From tropic to the bleakest north, the cocks crow before the advancing margin of dawn. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Gauge cocks to indicate the height of water, and a safety valve to regulate the pressure of steam, were employed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- You're like one of those cocks in the pit where nobody has seen the wound given and it doesn't show and he is already going cold with it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- This hides the hammers in the breech and cocks them by the act of breaking down the gun. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- HIS breakfast hour was half-past six--and HE went to bed with the cocks and hens! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He struck out with his hand, and a revolver which the younger man was in the act of cocking clattered down upon the floor. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Only a slight pressure on the trigger is necessary, as it is not required to perform the work of turning any other part by the trigger, as is the case in the self-cocking revolver. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- He was deliberately cocking his pistol, and, in the momentary silence that followed George's speech, he fired at him. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He then stopped as though waiting for my reply, pricking up his antennae-like ears and cocking his strange-looking eyes still further toward me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
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