carpenter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɑː.pən.tə/    美 /ˈkɑɹpəntɚ/|/ˈkɑɹpəndɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
  2. A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
  3. A two-wheeled carriage.
  4. A carpenter bee.
    — The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.
  5. A woodlouse. Canada,UK,regional
    — Eleven names in Laver’s table (just over 6%) are of the “carpenter” type, a name for woodlice also recorded in Shropshire and Warwickshire.[…] Apparently a Newfoundland word for woodlouse is “carpenter” or “cafner” (another is also “boat-builder”). These names clearly relate to the animals’ affinity to wood as will “carpenter’s flea”, “wood-pig”, “wood-bug”, “grampus wood-bug” and, of course “woodlouse”.
动词 v.
  1. To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber. intransitive,transitive

词形变化

carpenters plural carpenters present,singular,third-person carpentering participle,present carpentered participle,past carpentered past

词汇关系

衍生词
carpent carpenter ant carpenter bee carpentering carpenterly carpenter miller carpenter moth carpenter pencil carpentership carpenter's pencil carpenter's plane carpenter's square carpentress formwork carpenter shuttering carpenter
相关词
carpentry The Carpenter carpent carpenting

词源

词源 1
From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of carpintero. More at car.
Displaced native Old English trēowwyrhta (literally “tree worker”).
词源 2
From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of carpintero. More at car.
Displaced native Old English trēowwyrhta (literally “tree worker”).
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