Racket

['rækɪt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit.

(noun.) a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games.

(noun.) a loud and disturbing noise.

(verb.) hit (a ball) with a racket.

(verb.) make loud and annoying noises.

丹尼尔編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.

(n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.

(n.) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.

(n.) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.

(v. t.) To strike with, or as with, a racket.

(n.) Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.

(n.) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.

(v. i.) To make a confused noise or racket.

(v. i.) To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.

(v. i.) To carouse or engage in dissipation.

埃菲編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Uproar, clamor, hubbub, din, noise, outcry, disturbance, HULLABALOO, HALLABALOO.

校對:史蒂文

解釋/意思:

n. a clattering noise: hurly-burly.—v.i. to make a clattering noise: to engage in racket of any kind: to be dissipated.—n. Rack′eter.—adj. Rack′ety.—v.t. and v.i. Rack′le (prov.) to rattle.—n. noisy talk.

n. a bat for playing tennis: a snow-shoe: an organ-stop: a 17th-cent. musical instrument: (pl.) a modern variety of the old game of tennis.—v.t. to strike as with a racket.—ns. Rack′et- Racq′uet-court -ground a court for playing rackets: a tennis-court; Rack′et-tail a humming-bird with two feathers like rackets.—adj. Rack′et-tailed.

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