Peg

[peg] or [pɛɡ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.

(noun.) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.

(noun.) regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument.

(noun.) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.

(noun.) small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc..

(verb.) stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations; 'The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar'.

(verb.) fasten or secure with a wooden pin; 'peg a tent'.

(verb.) pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.

(n.) A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.

(n.) One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.

(n.) One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

(n.) A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."

(v. t.) To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.

(v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.

(v. i.) To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.

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解釋/意思:

n. a wooden pin for fastening boards or the soles of shoes: one of the pins on which the strings of a musical instrument are stretched: a reason or excuse for action: a drink of soda-water with brandy &c.: a degree or step.—v.t. to fasten with a peg: to keep up the market price by buying or selling at a fixed price: to make points during the game of cribbage before the show of hands.—v.i. to work with unremitting effort:—pr.p. peg′ging; pa.t. and pa.p. pegged.—ns. Peg′-fiched an English game played with pegs or pointed sticks; Peg′-float a machine for rasping away the ends of pegs inside shoes.—adj. Pegged fashioned of or furnished with pegs.—ns. Peg′ging the act of fastening with a peg: pegs collectively: a thrashing: determined perseverance in work; Peg′-leg a wooden leg of the simplest form or one who walks on such; Peg′-strip a ribbon of wood cut to the width &c. of a shoe-peg; Peg′-tank′ard a drinking-vessel having each one's share marked off by a knob; Peg′-top a child's plaything made to spin round by winding a string round it and then rapidly pulling it off: (pl.) a kind of trousers wide at the top and narrow at the ankles.—adj. shaped like a top.—Peg away to keep continually working.—Take down a peg to take down to humble.

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