spade

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
    — 'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'
  2. A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
    — I've got only one spade in my hand.
  3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
  4. A black person. ethnic,offensive,slur
    — And as for a divorce, I know plenty spades right here in Harlem get married any time they want to.
  5. A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.
动词 v.
  1. To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
  2. simple past and past participle of spay form-of,obsolete,participle,past

词形变化

spades plural spades present,singular,third-person spading participle,present spaded participle,past spaded past spades plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bucket and spade call a spade a shovel call a spade a spade call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel call a spade a spade, not a big spoon peat spade respade spaddle spadeable spadebone spadefish spade foot spadefoot spade-foot spade fork spadeful spade-handed spadeless spadelike spademan spade-man spade man spade mashie spade money spadesman spadetail spade-toothed whale spadewise spadework spadeworker spade-worker spadish turf spade

词源

词源 1
From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadô. Doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.
词源 2
Probably from Italian spade, plural of spada (“the ace of spades”, literally “sword, spade”), from earlier *spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπᾰ́θη (spắthē). Cognate with Etymology 1. So called for the shape, though what the shape was exactly meant to represent has been debated.
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