hitch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sudden pull.
  2. Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
  3. A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
    — His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat.
  4. A problem, delay or source of difficulty. informal
    — The banquet went off without a hitch
    The banquet went smoothly.
  5. A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
    — The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch?
  6. A period of time spent in the military. slang
    — She served two hitches in Vietnam.
  7. A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
  8. A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
    — An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch.
动词 v.
  1. To pull with a jerk. transitive
    — She hitched her jeans up and then tightened her belt.
  2. To attach, tie or fasten. transitive
    — He hitched the bedroll to his backpack and went camping.
  3. To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched. informal
  4. Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,informal,transitive
    — to hitch a ride
  5. To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. intransitive
    — atoms[…]which at length hitched together
  6. To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded. intransitive
    — Frank’s breath hitched in his throat when he saw the knife being pointed at him.
  7. To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere. UK,intransitive
    — Stolen[…]A brown Gelding[…]all his paces, and hitches a little in his pace.

词形变化

hitches plural hitches present,singular,third-person hitching participle,present hitched participle,past hitched past

词汇关系

下位词
hitch in one's get-along hitch in one's giddy-up Magnus hitch midshipman's hitch rigger's hitch rolling hitch taut-line hitch tent-line hitch
衍生词
hitcher hitchhike hitchhiker hitching hitching-bar hitching post hitching rail hitchment hitch one's wagon to a star skitch unhitch unhitched

词源

词源 1
Probably from Middle English hicchen, hytchen, icchen (“to move; to move as with a jerk”), of obscure origin. Lacks cognates in other languages. Compare itch, hike.
词源 2
Probably from Middle English hicchen, hytchen, icchen (“to move; to move as with a jerk”), of obscure origin. Lacks cognates in other languages. Compare itch, hike.
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