earth

名词 n. 动词 v. 专有名词
/ɜːθ/    /ɝθ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Soil. uncountable
    — This is good earth for growing potatoes.
  2. Any general rock-based material. uncountable
    — She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.
  3. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea). countable,uncountable
    — Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.
  4. A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner. UK,countable,uncountable
  5. The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox. countable,uncountable
  6. A region of the planet; a land or country. countable,uncountable
  7. Worldly things, as against spiritual ones. countable,uncountable
  8. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife). countable,uncountable
    — "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
  9. The people on the globe. countable,metonymically,uncountable
    — And the whole earth was of one language, and of one ſpeach.
  10. Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one. countable,uncountable
    — New space telescopes may accelerate the search for other earths that may be out there.
  11. The human body. archaic,countable,uncountable
  12. The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements. countable,uncountable
  13. Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — The term Earths was formerly, and is still, but in a modified sense, applied to several substances which compose all the various rocks, stones, gems, mountains, and soils covering the face of the globe. They are tasteless, inodorous, dry, uninflamable, sparingly soluble, difficult of fusion, and of moderate specific gravity.
动词 v.
  1. To connect electrically to the earth. UK,transitive
    — That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.
  2. To bury. transitive
    — The Miſer earths his Treaſure; and the Thief, / Watching the Mole, half-beggars him ere Morn.
  3. To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den. transitive
    — […]the Fox is earth’d,[…]
  4. To burrow. intransitive
    — foxes earth'd
专有名词
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun. alt-of
    — The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.

词形变化

airth alternative,Scotland erd alternative,dialectal,rare yearth alternative,obsolete earths plural airth alternative,Scotland erd alternative,dialectal,rare yearth alternative,obsolete earths present,singular,third-person earthing participle,present earthed participle,past earthed past airth alternative,Scotland erd alternative,dialectal,rare yearth alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
Adamic earth Adam's earth alkaline earth alkaline-earth alkaline earth metal alkaline-earth metal anti-earth antiearth black earth Blue Earth Blue Earth County Blue Earth River bog earth bone earth Chian earth Cologne earth come down to earth cost the earth counter-earth dark earth dhobi's earth diatomaceous earth down-to-earth down to earth Eartha earth almond earth-apple earthapple earth art earthbag earthball earth ball earthbank earth bath earth-bathing earthberg earthberry earth-berry earthboard earthborn earth-born earthbound earth-bound earthbred earth-chestnut earth chestnut earth closet earthcreeper Earth Day earthdin earth-diver earth divinity earth dog earth-drake earthdrake eartheater earthen earthen mound earthenware earther earthfall earthfast earth-fast earthflax earth-floor earth floor earthflow earthful earthhog earth-hog earthhole earthhood earthhouse earthish earthism earthless earthlike earthling earthlore earthly earthly paradise earth metal earth mother earth-motherly earthmover earth-moving earth moving earthmoving earthness earth oil earth pea earthpea earthpig earth pig earth-pig earth pillar earth pitch earth plate earth pond earth pyramid earthquake earthrise earth science earthscraper earthset earthshaker earthshaking earthshattering earth-shattering earth-shine earth-ship earthshock earth sign earthslide earth smoke earth snake earthstar earth station earth-stopping earthstorm earth-tilth earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust earth tone earth-tongue earth tongue earth tremor earth up earthward earthwards earthware earthwash earthwax earth wire earthwolf earthwork earthworm earthy edge of the earth ends of the earth flat-earth flat earther follow someone to the ends of the earth Fountains Earth the face of the earth fuller's earth gall-of-the-earth God's green earth go the way of all the earth go to earth go to the ends of the earth green earth green in earth heavy earth hell on earth hollow earther inearth Japan earth Japanese earth Kassel earth Lemnian earth main earth man-of-the-earth man of the earth Middle-earth middle earth moot earth Mother Earth move heaven and earth nap-of-the-earth near-earth off the face of the earth old earth creationism old-earth creationism on earth on God's green earth on the face of the earth paradise on earth promise the earth rammed earth rare earth rare earth element rare-earth element rare earth magnet rare earth metal rare earth mineral red earth run to earth salt of the earth salt the earth Samian earth scorched earth policy scorched-earth policy scorched earth scorched-earth scum of the earth seat earth seatearth star-of-the-earth transearth underearth Walker's earth yellow earth Young Earth creationism unearth earthing

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-der.
Proto-Germanic *erþō
Proto-West Germanic *erþu
Old English eorþe
Middle English erthe
English earth
From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁érteh₂ (“earth”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots erd, yerd, yird, yirth (“earth, loam, mould, soil; ground”), Yola eard, eart, eord, eorth, erth (“earth”), North Frisian eerd, eerde, iarde, Iart, iir, jard, örd, Öört (“earth; world”), Saterland Frisian Idde, Äid, Äide (“earth; soil; ground”), West Frisian ierde (“earth; soil; ground”), Alemannic German Ëërde (“earth”), Bavarian Erd, Erdn (“world; soil; ground”), Central Franconian Ääd (“earth”), Cimbrian èerda (“earth”), Dutch aard, aarde (“earth”), German Erde (“earth; soil; ground; world”), German Low German Eer (“earth”), Limburgish eerd (“earth”), Luxembourgish Äerd (“earth; soil”), Vilamovian Ād (“earth”), Yiddish ערד (erd, “earth; soil”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish jord (“earth”), Faroese jørð (“earth”), Icelandic jörð (“earth”), Norn yurn (“the earth”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌰 (airþa, “earth”); also Latin ōra (“border, edge, rim”), Breton erv (“ridge between furrows”), Welsh erw (“acre”), Ancient Greek ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground”), Lithuanian erdvė (“expanse, space”), Albanian varr, vorr (“grave”), Tocharian B āre (“dust, loose earth”), Sanskrit उर्वरा (urvarā, “fertile soil, field yielding crops”), Hittite 𒅕𒄩𒀸 (er-ḫa-aš /⁠erḫaš⁠/, “border, boundary, line”).
Probably unrelated, but of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably unrelated.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-der.
Proto-Germanic *erþō
Proto-West Germanic *erþu
Old English eorþe
Middle English erthe
English earth
From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁érteh₂ (“earth”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots erd, yerd, yird, yirth (“earth, loam, mould, soil; ground”), Yola eard, eart, eord, eorth, erth (“earth”), North Frisian eerd, eerde, iarde, Iart, iir, jard, örd, Öört (“earth; world”), Saterland Frisian Idde, Äid, Äide (“earth; soil; ground”), West Frisian ierde (“earth; soil; ground”), Alemannic German Ëërde (“earth”), Bavarian Erd, Erdn (“world; soil; ground”), Central Franconian Ääd (“earth”), Cimbrian èerda (“earth”), Dutch aard, aarde (“earth”), German Erde (“earth; soil; ground; world”), German Low German Eer (“earth”), Limburgish eerd (“earth”), Luxembourgish Äerd (“earth; soil”), Vilamovian Ād (“earth”), Yiddish ערד (erd, “earth; soil”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish jord (“earth”), Faroese jørð (“earth”), Icelandic jörð (“earth”), Norn yurn (“the earth”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌰 (airþa, “earth”); also Latin ōra (“border, edge, rim”), Breton erv (“ridge between furrows”), Welsh erw (“acre”), Ancient Greek ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground”), Lithuanian erdvė (“expanse, space”), Albanian varr, vorr (“grave”), Tocharian B āre (“dust, loose earth”), Sanskrit उर्वरा (urvarā, “fertile soil, field yielding crops”), Hittite 𒅕𒄩𒀸 (er-ḫa-aš /⁠erḫaš⁠/, “border, boundary, line”).
Probably unrelated, but of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably unrelated.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-der.
Proto-Germanic *erþō
Proto-West Germanic *erþu
Old English eorþe
Middle English erthe
English earth
From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁érteh₂ (“earth”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots erd, yerd, yird, yirth (“earth, loam, mould, soil; ground”), Yola eard, eart, eord, eorth, erth (“earth”), North Frisian eerd, eerde, iarde, Iart, iir, jard, örd, Öört (“earth; world”), Saterland Frisian Idde, Äid, Äide (“earth; soil; ground”), West Frisian ierde (“earth; soil; ground”), Alemannic German Ëërde (“earth”), Bavarian Erd, Erdn (“world; soil; ground”), Central Franconian Ääd (“earth”), Cimbrian èerda (“earth”), Dutch aard, aarde (“earth”), German Erde (“earth; soil; ground; world”), German Low German Eer (“earth”), Limburgish eerd (“earth”), Luxembourgish Äerd (“earth; soil”), Vilamovian Ād (“earth”), Yiddish ערד (erd, “earth; soil”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish jord (“earth”), Faroese jørð (“earth”), Icelandic jörð (“earth”), Norn yurn (“the earth”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌰 (airþa, “earth”); also Latin ōra (“border, edge, rim”), Breton erv (“ridge between furrows”), Welsh erw (“acre”), Ancient Greek ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground”), Lithuanian erdvė (“expanse, space”), Albanian varr, vorr (“grave”), Tocharian B āre (“dust, loose earth”), Sanskrit उर्वरा (urvarā, “fertile soil, field yielding crops”), Hittite 𒅕𒄩𒀸 (er-ḫa-aš /⁠erḫaš⁠/, “border, boundary, line”).
Probably unrelated, but of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably unrelated.
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