Stuff

[stʌf]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) miscellaneous unspecified objects; 'the trunk was full of stuff'.

(noun.) unspecified qualities required to do or be something; 'the stuff of heros'; 'you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine'.

(noun.) a critically important or characteristic component; 'suspense is the very stuff of narrative'.

(noun.) senseless talk; 'don't give me that stuff'.

(noun.) information in some unspecified form; 'it was stuff I had heard before'; 'there's good stuff in that book'.

(noun.) informal terms for personal possessions; 'did you take all your clobber?'.

(verb.) fill tightly with a material; 'stuff a pillow with feathers'.

(verb.) obstruct; 'My nose is all stuffed'; 'Her arteries are blocked'.

(verb.) cram into a cavity; 'The child stuffed candy into his pockets'.

(verb.) treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; 'stuff a bearskin'.

安德烈整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

(v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.

(v. t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.

(v. t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

(v. t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion.

(v. t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.

(v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.

(v. t.) Paper stock ground ready for use.

(n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.

(n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.

(n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.

(n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.

(n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

(n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.

(n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

(n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

(n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).

(v. i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram.

戴维斯整理

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Material, matter, substance, raw material.[2]. Cloth, textile fabric.[3]. Mixture, medicine, potion.[4]. Trash, nonsense, absurdity, folly, moonshine, twaddle, balderdash, fudge, inanity, platitude, flummery.

v. a. [1]. Cram, stow, pack, fill full.[2]. Press, crowd, squeeze.[3]. [Colloquial, U. S.] Flatter, cajole, wheedle, coax, coddle.

v. n. Cram, eat greedily.

克利奥校對

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Matter, substance, trash, nonsense,[See CONSIDER]

整理:马库斯

解釋/意思:

n. materials of which anything is made: that which fills anything: essence elemental part: textile fabrics cloth esp. when woollen: something trifling worthless or contemptible: a melted mass of turpentine tallow &c. used for paying masts planks &c.: a medicinal mixture: boards for building: (slang) money: worthless matter: possessions generally esp. household furniture &c.—v.t. to fill by crowding: to fill very full: to press in: to crowd: to cram as with nonsense or lies: to obstruct: to cause to bulge out by filling: to fill with seasoning as a fowl: to fill the skin of a dead animal so as to reproduce its living form.—v.i. to feed gluttonously: to practise taxidermy.—ns. Stuff′er one who stuffs esp. the skins of animals; Stuff′-gown a gown of stuff not silk esp. that of a junior barrister; Stuff′ing that which is used to stuff or fill anything—straw sawdust feathers hair &c.: relishing ingredients put into meat poultry &c. in cooking; Stuff′ing-box a contrivance for keeping a piston-rod &c. air-tight or water-tight by means of closely-fitting packing while allowing it free motion.

整理:伊冯