divot

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof. especially
    — Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool, as if a divot from a green golf-links had come sailing in at the office window, but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.
  2. A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.
    — In these coldest hours before dawn, from three until six, I take up my knife again and hack at the chockstone. I continue to make minimal but visible progress in the divot.
  3. A drop in a graph between two linear portions (example)
动词 v.
  1. To tear up pieces of turf from, especially with a golf club in making a stroke. especially,transitive

词形变化

divots plural divots present,singular,third-person divoting participle,present divoted participle,past divoted past

词汇关系

衍生词
fail and divot feal and divot

词源

词源 1
1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), also spelt devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e), from Scottish Gaelic dubhad, a reduced form of dubh-fhàd, literally “black sod” (compare fàl (“turf, sod”)).
词源 2
1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), also spelt devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e), from Scottish Gaelic dubhad, a reduced form of dubh-fhàd, literally “black sod” (compare fàl (“turf, sod”)).
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