Cradle

['kreɪd(ə)l] or ['kredl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a baby bed with sides and rockers.

(noun.) birth of a person; 'he was taught from the cradle never to cry'.

(verb.) run with the stick.

(verb.) hold gently and carefully; 'He cradles the child in his arms'.

(verb.) wash in a cradle; 'cradle gold'.

(verb.) cut grain with a cradle scythe.

(verb.) hold or place in or as if in a cradle; 'He cradled the infant in his arms'.

(verb.) bring up from infancy.

杰西整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.

(n.) Infancy, or very early life.

(n.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.

(n.) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

(n.) A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

(n.) A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

(n.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.

(n.) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.

(n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

(n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

(n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.

(v. t.) To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.

(v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.

(v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.

(v. t.) To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

(v. i.) To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

弗雷达錄入

解釋/意思:

n. a bed or crib in which children are rocked: (fig.) infancy: the place where one is born and brought up: a frame in which anything is imbedded: a case for a broken limb: a frame under a ship for launching it: a box on rockers for washing auriferous dirt.—v.t. to lay or rock in a cradle: to nurture.—adj. Crā′dled laid in a cradle.—ns. Crā′dle-scythe a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain; Crā′dle-walk an avenue arched over with trees; Crā′dling.—From the cradle from birth from the first.

校對:梅勒妮