Sherlock

动词 v. 专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To deduce. informal
    — "Anybody could have Sherlocked at a glance," sniffed young Kennilworth, "that it had been packed by a crazy person!"
  2. To search. informal
    — That afternoon when the boys were in the field Mr. Frickstad sherlocked around in the tents and under the cots looking for a missing rocking-chair.
  3. To obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party program/app. slang
    — The thing software developers fear most is being "sherlocked".
专有名词
  1. An English surname transferred from the nickname.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
  3. A detective, especially used sarcastically to address somebody who has stated the obvious. humorous
    — — Where that arrow on the map says 'You are here', that must be where we are. — Yeah, well done Sherlock.

词形变化

Sherlocks plural Sherlocks present,singular,third-person Sherlocking participle,present Sherlocked participle,past Sherlocked past

词源

词源 1
Supposedly from an Old English scir-locc (“bright-lock”).
One of a group of surnames originally denoting hair colour, parallel to Blacklock, Harlock (Old English har (“grey”)), Silverlock.
In the sense of “a detective”, from Sherlock Holmes.
In the computing verb sense, refers to the software Sherlock, which in 2002 came to replicate some of the features of an earlier complementary program called Watson.
词源 2
Supposedly from an Old English scir-locc (“bright-lock”).
One of a group of surnames originally denoting hair colour, parallel to Blacklock, Harlock (Old English har (“grey”)), Silverlock.
In the sense of “a detective”, from Sherlock Holmes.
In the computing verb sense, refers to the software Sherlock, which in 2002 came to replicate some of the features of an earlier complementary program called Watson.
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