guillotine

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɪlətiːn/|/ˌɡɪləˈtiːn/|/ˌɡiːjəˈtiːn/    美 /ˈɡɪləˌtin/|/ˈɡi(j)əˌtin/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine. also,figuratively,historical
    — For two-and-twenty years he [Joseph-Ignace Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive [Julius] Cæsar’s.
  2. A device or machine with a cutting blade.; A device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform. broadly
  3. A device or machine with a cutting blade.; An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts. broadly
  4. A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously. UK,broadly,informal
    — The right hon. Gentleman is making a great stooshie about time in relation to this Bill, but was it not the case that, when the SNP [Scottish National Party] Scottish Government introduced their continuity Bill in the Scottish Parliament, they operated a ruthless guillotine to prevent proper scrutiny of it? That is the case; they ran a guillotine on that Bill, and there was a very limited amount of time allowed for debate and scrutiny, yet he complains about that happening here.
  5. A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture. US,broadly,informal
动词 v.
  1. To use a guillotine (on someone or something).; To execute (someone) with a guillotine. also,figuratively,transitive
    — Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.
  2. To use a guillotine (on someone or something).; To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine. transitive
  3. To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure. UK,informal,transitive
  4. To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture. US,informal,transitive

词形变化

guillotines plural guillotines present,singular,third-person guillotining participle,present guillotined participle,past guillotined past

词汇关系

衍生词
antiguillotine dry guillotine guillotine choke guillotine clause guillotine shear guillotine shears guillotinism guillotinist Hume's guillotine guillotinable guillotined guillotinee guillotinement guillotiner guillotining unguillotined

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French guillotine, named after the French physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814), who proposed its use for capital punishment.
词源 2
Borrowed from French guillotiner (“to execute with a guillotine, to guillotine”), from guillotine (see etymology 1) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs).
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