Winter

['wɪntə] or ['wɪntɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.

(verb.) spend the winter; 'We wintered on the Riviera'; 'Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island'.

杰罗姆錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.

(n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.

(v. i.) To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.

(v. i.) To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. Hibernate.

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解釋/意思:

n. an appliance for fixing on the front of a grate to keep warm a tea-kettle or the like.

n. the cold season of the year: a year: any season of cheerlessness: the last corn of the harvest a harvest festival.—adj. wintry.—v.i. to pass the winter.—v.t. to feed or to detain during winter.—ns. Win′ter-app′le an apple that keeps well in winter or that does not ripen till winter; Win′ter-bar′ley a kind of barley which is sown in autumn.—adj. Win′ter-beat′en (Spens.) beaten or injured by the cold of winter.—ns. Win′ter-berr′y a name given to several shrubs of the genus Ilex growing in the eastern parts of North America; Win′ter-bloom the witch-hazel; Win′ter-bourne an intermittent spring in the chalk-districts; Win′ter-cherr′y one of the Solanace a plant with edible red berries—also called in the United States Strawberry-tomatoes: the Balloon-vine having large triangular inflated fruit.—adj. Win′ter-clad warmly clad.—ns. Win′ter-clov′er the partridge-berry; Win′ter-cress a cruciferous plant cultivated for winter salad; Win′ter-crop a crop that will endure the winter or that yields fodder in winter-time.—adj. Win′tered having seen many winters: exposed to winter: (Shak.) worn in winter.—ns. Win′ter-fall′ow a fallow made in the winter; Win′ter-gar′den an ornamental garden for winter; Win′ter-green a plant of genus Pyrola also of Chimaphila: a plant of genus Gualtheria whose oil is an aromatic stimulant used chiefly in flavouring confectionery and syrups.—v.t. Win′ter-ground (Shak.) to protect as a plant from the inclemency of winter.—ns. Win′ter-lodge -lodg′ment the hibernacle of a plant.—adj. Win′terly cheerless.—n.pl. Win′ter-quar′ters the quarters of an army during winter: a winter residence.—ns. Win′ter-sett′le an old word for a winter dwelling; Win′ter-tide winter: Win′ter-wheat wheat sown in autumn; Win′triness.—adjs. Win′try Win′tery resembling or suitable to winter: stormy.

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