Hack

[hæk]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc..

(noun.) a horse kept for hire.

(noun.) an old or over-worked horse.

(noun.) a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil.

(noun.) one who works hard at boring tasks.

(noun.) a mediocre and disdained writer.

(verb.) cough spasmodically; 'The patient with emphysema is hacking all day'.

(verb.) significantly cut up a manuscript.

(verb.) fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; 'I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best'.

(verb.) kick on the shins.

(verb.) kick on the arms.

(verb.) cut away; 'he hacked his way through the forest'.

(verb.) be able to manage or manage successfully; 'I can't hack it anymore'; 'she could not cut the long days in the office'.

安德鲁手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

(n.) Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.

(v. t.) To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.

(v. t.) Fig.: To mangle in speaking.

(v. i.) To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.

(n.) A notch; a cut.

(n.) An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.

(n.) A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.

(n.) A kick on the shins.

(n.) A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.

(n.) A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.

(n.) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.

(n.) A procuress.

(a.) Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.

(v. t.) To use as a hack; to let out for hire.

(v. t.) To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.

(v. i.) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.

(v. i.) To live the life of a drudge or hack.

編輯:梅尔维尔

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Cut (clumsily), hew, chop, mangle, hackle.

n. [1]. Notch, cut.[2]. Hired horse, worn-out horse.[3]. Drudge, over-worked man.[4]. Hackney-coach.

a. Hired, mercenary, hireling, hackney.

黛博拉校對

解釋/意思:

n. a grated frame as a rack for feeding cattle a place for drying bricks &c.

n. a horse kept for hire esp. a poor one: any person overworked on hire: a literary drudge.—adj. hired mercenary: used up.—v.t. to offer for hire: to use roughly.—n. Hack′-work literary drudgery for which a person is hired by a publisher as making dictionaries &c.

v.t. to cut: to chop or mangle: to notch: to kick (another) at football.—n. a cut made by hacking: a kick on the shin.—n. Hack′ing the operation of picking a worn grindstone &c. with a hack-hammer.—adj. short and interrupted as a broken troublesome cough.—n. Hack′-log a chopping-block.

編輯:威拉