Court

[kɔːt] or [kɔrt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) respectful deference; 'pay court to the emperor'.

(noun.) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings; 'the house was built around an inner court'.

(noun.) a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played; 'players had to reserve a court in advance'.

(noun.) a room in which a lawcourt sits; 'television cameras were admitted in the courtroom'.

(noun.) the residence of a sovereign or nobleman; 'the king will visit the duke's court'.

(noun.) a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws.

(noun.) the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state.

(noun.) the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince.

(noun.) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.

(noun.) Australian woman tennis player who won many major championships (born in 1947).

(verb.) engage in social activities leading to marriage; 'We were courting for over ten years'.

德斯蒙德錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

(n.) The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.

(n.) The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.

(n.) Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.

(n.) Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.

(n.) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

(n.) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.

(n.) A tribunal established for the administration of justice.

(n.) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.

(n.) The session of a judicial assembly.

(n.) Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.

(n.) A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.

(v. t.) To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.

(v. t.) To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.

(v. t.) To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.

(v. t.) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

(v. i.) To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.

手打:南希

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Royal household, princely retinue.[2]. Judicial tribunal, court of justice.[3]. Judge, body of judges.[4]. Court-yard.[5]. Recess from a street.

v. a. [1]. Flatter, coddle, try to please, fawn upon, pay court to.[2]. Woo, pay one's addresses to, make love to.[3]. Seek, solicit, strive to gain.

錄入:提托

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN: seek, affect, flatter, pursue

ANT:Repel, abjure, disaffect, insult, avoid, {[hun]?}, repudiate

达琳錄入

解釋/意思:

n. a space enclosed: a space surrounded by houses: the palace of a sovereign: the body of persons who form his suite or council: attention: civility as 'to pay court:' (law) the hall of justice; the judges and officials who preside there: any body of persons assembled to decide causes whether civil military or ecclesiastical.—v.t. to pay attentions to: to woo: to solicit: to seek.—ns. Court′-bar′on the assembly of freehold tenants of a manor under a lord; Court′-card (see Coat-card); Court′-cup′board (Shak.) a movable cupboard or sideboard on which plate was displayed; Court′-day a day on which a judicial court sits; Court′-dress the special regulation costume worn on state or ceremonious occasions; Court′-dress′er a flatterer.—adj. Courteous (kurt′yus) of court-like manners: polite: respectful: obliging.—adv. Courteously (kurt′-).—ns. Courteousness (kurt′-); Court′-fool a fool or jester formerly kept at court for amusement; Court′-guide a guide to or directory of the names and residences of the nobility in a town; Court′-hand a modification of the Norman handwriting as distinguished from the modern or Italian handwriting in use in the English law-courts from the 16th century to the reign of George II.; Court′-house a building where the law-courts are held; Court′ier one who frequents courts or palaces: one who courts or flatters; Court′ierism the behaviour or practices of a courtier.—adv. Court′ierly.—ns. Court′ing paying addresses to a woman wooing; (Spens.) attendance at court; Court′-leet a court of record held in a manor before the lord or his steward; Court′let a petty court.—adj. Court′-like courtly: polite.—ns. Court′liness; Court′ling a hanger-on at court.—adj. Court′ly having manners like those at a court: elegant.—ns. Court′-mar′tial a court held by officers of the army or navy for the trial of offences against military or naval laws:—pl. Courts′-mar′tial; one improvised in time of war round an upturned drum for summary judgment is a Drumhead court-martial; Court′-plas′ter sticking-plaster made of silk originally applied as patches on the face by ladies at court; Court′-roll the record of a court of justice; Court′ship courtly behaviour: the act of wooing with intention to marry; Court′-sword a light dress-sword worn as part of court-dress; Court′yard a court or enclosed ground before a house.—Court holy water empty compliments: (obs.) flattery.

校對:佩里