cruise

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɹuːz/|/kɹʉwz/    美 /kɹuz/|/kɹʉːz/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
    — Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
  2. A small cup; cruse.
    — And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
  3. Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
  4. A period spent in the Marine Corps. US,informal
    — I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]
  5. A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group.
    — Near-synonym: car show
  6. A period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to a full-dosed cycle (blast). slang
动词 v.
  1. To sail about, especially for pleasure. intransitive
    — He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…].
  2. To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency. intransitive
  3. To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom. transitive
  4. To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield. ambitransitive
  5. To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll. ambitransitive,colloquial
  6. To attempt to pick up as a casual sexual partner; hit on colloquial,transitive
    — 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Lot of not too bad looking boys there but when M came in I knew right then: him. Very thin & feminine, brown hair fluffed around his sharp featured face. So I began cruising him.
  7. To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months). intransitive
  8. To win easily and convincingly. intransitive
    — Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians.
  9. To take part in a cruise (car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group). intransitive
  10. To have a period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to going through a full-dosed cycle (blast). slang
    — blast and cruise

词形变化

cruises plural cruize alternative,obsolete cruises present,singular,third-person cruising participle,present cruised participle,past cruised past cruize alternative,obsolete cruises plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.
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