canary

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /kəˈnɛəɹi/|/kəˈnɛːɹɪj/    美 /kəˈneːɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands. countable,uncountable
  2. Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour. countable,uncountable
  3. A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer. countable,informal,uncountable
  4. An informer or snitch; a squealer. countable,slang,uncountable
  5. A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour. countable,uncountable
  6. A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (nembutal). countable,slang,uncountable
  7. A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy. Australia,countable,informal,uncountable
    — The tendency in these types of situations (as far as I can see) is that because I don't think the act itself is illegal, the police will go through your vehicle systematically loking^([sic]) for anything wrong with it, to slap a canary on it (that's slang for an unroadworthy sticker) or present you with some other fine.
  8. Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.) countable,uncountable
  9. A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it. countable,uncountable
  10. A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all. countable,uncountable
  11. A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands. countable,uncountable
    — Ile to my honeſt knight ſir Iohn Falſtaffe, / And drinke Canary with him.
  12. A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries). countable,uncountable
    — In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]
  13. A sovereign (coin). UK,countable,obsolete,slang,uncountable
  14. A previously-issued ticket, retained by a ticket-seller, conductor or driver and resold to a subsequent passenger as a means of defrauding the transport company. countable,uncountable
    — She had previously been sacked ... for "selling canaries" - a practice in which drivers resell used tickets to passengers and keep the fare for themselves.
  15. A prisoner or convict. UK,countable,obsolete,slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To dance nimbly (as in the canary dance). intransitive
    — but to jig off a tune at / the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet,
  2. To inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities. slang
  3. To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a light yellow colour.

词形变化

canaries plural more canary comparative most canary superlative canaries present,singular,third-person canarying participle,present canaried participle,past canaried past

词汇关系

下位词
Serinus canaria Serinus pusillus Serinus serinus
衍生词
Abyssinian grosbeak canary Atlantic canary black-faced canary black-headed canary black-throated canary brimstone canary bully canary bush canary canary bird canarybird flower canarybird vine canary clover canary creeper canary fit canary-flycatcher canary flyrobin canary girl canary grass canary in a coal mine canary in the coal mine Canary Island canarylike canary nasturtium canary parakeet canarypox canary release canary rockfish canary seed canary trap canary-winged finch canary-winged parakeet canarywood canary wood canary whitewood canary yellow Cape canary cat that ate the canary cat that swallowed the canary climate canary common canary Damara canary domestic canary forest canary Grand Canary grosbeak-canary hairy canary island canary Kenya grosbeak-canary lemon-breasted canary miner's canary Missouri canary northern grosbeak-canary papyrus canary protea canary red factor canary Rocky Mountain canary sea canary sing like a canary southern grosbeak-canary stack canary warrant canary white-bellied canary white-throated canary yellow-crowned canary yellow-eyed canary yellow-fronted canary
相关词
serin yellowhead

词源

词源 1
From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).
词源 2
From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).
词源 3
From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).
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