Stave

[steɪv] or [stev]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket.

(verb.) burst or force (a hole) into something.

(verb.) furnish with staves; 'stave a ladder'.

格罗夫斯整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

(n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.

(n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

(n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

(n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.

(n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off.

(n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

(n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

(n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.

(n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.

(v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

錄入:皮埃尔

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Stanza, verse, staff.

v. a. Burst, break a hole in, stave in.

克拉丽斯編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Parry, fend, forefend

ANT:Attract, court, draw, invoke, provoke

錄入:莱斯特

解釋/意思:

n. one of the pieces of which a cask is made: a staff or part of a piece of music: a stanza.—v.t. to break a stave or the staves of: to break: to burst: to drive off as with a staff: to delay:—pa.t. and pa.p. stāved or stōve.

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