Scout

[skaʊt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory.

(noun.) someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports).

(noun.) a Boy Scout or Girl Scout.

(verb.) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody.

整理:罗莎--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A swift sailing boat.

(n.) A projecting rock.

(v. t.) To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.

(n.) A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information of the movements and condition of an enemy.

(n.) A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.

(n.) A fielder in a game for practice.

(n.) The act of scouting or reconnoitering.

(v. t.) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.

(v. t.) To pass over or through, as a scout; to reconnoiter; as, to scout a country.

(v. i.) To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout.

埃弗雷特編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Spy.

v. n. Act the spy.

v. a. Ridicule, deride, disdain, despise, contemn, scorn, spurn, scoff at, laugh at, sneer at, hold in contempt.

凯茜錄入

同義詞及反義詞：

[See SCORN]

伊恩校對

解釋/意思:

n. one sent out to bring in tidings observe the enemy &c.: a spy: a sneak: in cricket a fielder: the act of watching: a bird of the auk family: a college servant at Oxford the same as gyp in Cambridge and skip in Dublin.—v.t. to watch closely.—n. Scout′-mas′ter an officer who has the direction of army scouts.

v.i. (Scot.) to pour forth a liquid forcibly esp. excrement.—n. the guillemot.

v.t. to sneer at: to reject with disdain.—adv. Scout′ingly sneeringly.

克莱德編輯