horse

名词 n. 动词 v.

中文释义

美 /hoɹs/|[ho̞ɹs]|/hoːs/|[ho̝ːs]

英文释义

名词 n.

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. countable,uncountable

— A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
Heroin (drug). slang,uncountable

— Riccio nodded toward a boy across the floor and said, “See that kid? He’s on dope.” The boy was standing against a wall, staring vacantly at the dancers, his face fixed in a gentle, faraway smile. Every few seconds, he would wipe his nose with the back of his hand. “Man, that Jo-Jo!” Benny said. “He’s stoned all the time.” “What’s he on—horse? Riccio asked, meaning heroin. “Who knows with that creep?” Benny said. I asked Benny if any special kind of boy went in for dope. “The creeps,” he said. “You know, the goofballs.” He searched for a word. “The weak kids. Like Jo-Jo. There ain’t nothing the guys can’t do to him. Last week, we took his pants off and made him run right in the middle of the street without them.”
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.; Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus. countable,uncountable
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.; Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses. countable,uncountable

— These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.; Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category). sometimes,uncountable

— We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.; A component of certain games.; The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse. countable,informal,uncountable

— Now just remind me how the horse moves again?
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.; A component of certain games.; A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally. countable,uncountable
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.; A large and sturdy person. countable,slang,uncountable

— Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.; A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. countable,historical,uncountable
Equipment with legs.; In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top. countable,uncountable

— She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.
Equipment with legs.; A frame with legs, used to support something. countable,uncountable

— a clothes horse; a sawhorse
A type of equipment.; A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope. countable,uncountable

— The old “horse” has made way for the “foot-rope", though we still retain the term “Flemish horse" for the short foot-rope at the top-sail yard-arms
A type of equipment.; A breastband for a leadsman. countable,uncountable
A type of equipment.; An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon. countable,uncountable
A type of equipment.; A jackstay. countable,uncountable

— But in all the wild tumult he noticed, and never forgot, the wicked, set little eye—something like a circus elephant's eye—of a whale that drove along almost level with the water, and, so he said, winked at him. Three boats found their rodings fouled by these reckless mid-sea hunters, and were towed half a mile ere their horses shook the line free.
A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance. countable,uncountable
An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia ). US,countable,uncountable
The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine. uncountable

— She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.
A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners. countable,slang,uncountable

— This "horse" (a slang term for prison officers who smuggle contraband into the institution) was probably able "to stay in business" for such a long time because he only "packed" for powerful, trustworthy prisoners […]
A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination. countable,dated,slang,uncountable
Horseplay; tomfoolery. countable,dated,slang,uncountable
A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings. countable,slang,uncountable

动词 v.

Synonym of horse around. intransitive

— "Stop horsing, and guess how many kids!"
To play mischievous pranks on. transitive

— Was someone horsing her? Was it Josh's idea of a joke? For some moments she sat, plump hands with long pointed pink nails, toying with the envelope. Then she went to the telephone and called[…]
To provide with a horse; supply horses for. transitive

— being better horsed, outrode me
To get on horseback. obsolete

— He horsed himself well.
To sit astride of; to bestride.

— Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
To copulate with (a mare).
To take or carry on the back.

— keepers, horsing the deer
To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.

— So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.
To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.; To flog. broadly

— [N]otwithstanding the intercession of his governor, who begged earnestly that his punishment might be mitigated, our unfortunate hero was publickly horsed, in terrorem of all whom it might concern.
To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would. transitive

— [A] country-ship from China to Bombay, standing into the strait at noon with a strong tide and scant wind, stood too near Pedro Branco before tacking, and was totally lost, by the tide horsing her upon the rock whilst in stays.
To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume. informal

— The Spaniards spend generations honing the subtle flavours of their delightful tapas and you're horsing it into your mouth as though it was a fried egg roll with brown sauce.'
To urge at work tyrannically. dated,transitive
To charge for work before it is finished. dated,intransitive
To cheat at schoolwork by means of a translation or other illegitimate aid. dated,slang

词形变化

horses plural harse alternative,pronunciation-spelling,regional hawss alternative,pronunciation-spelling,regional hoss alternative,pronunciation-spelling,regional horses present,singular,third-person horsing participle,present horsed participle,past horsed past

词汇关系

近义词

widge cheval horsy nag prad steed horseflesh horsemeat equine horse keffel pommel horse vaulting horse

上位词

equid mammal

下位词

colt yearling filly foal mare dame pony stallion sire ridgeling gelding palomino brumby mustang charger destrier palfrey steed sumpter rowney dam stud horseling hack dobbin jade nag Arab cob jennet purebred thoroughbred vanner boathorse coachhorse draft horse barrier rogue gigster packhorse plowhorse rouncey workhorse market horse mount warhorse racehorse courser bronco Przewalski's horse tarpan

衍生词

a camel is a horse designed by a committee a camel is a horse made by a committee a camel is a horse made by committee a-cock-horse African horse sickness ahorse a horse apiece and the horse you rode in on a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse antihorse Arab horse Arabian horse Asian wild horse Assateague horse Atlantic horse mackerel back the right horse back the wrong horse bathorse bat-horse bat horse battlehorse Bay Horse beat a dead horse behorsed bell-horse Berkley horse Black Forest horse black horse blood horse boathorse bottle-horse buy the same horse twice cart horse carthorse chamber horse change horses in midstream charley-horse charley horse charlie horse choose the wrong horse chore horse close the barn door after the horse has bolted close the stable door after the horse has been stolen close the stable door after the horse has bolted clotheshorse clothes horse clothes-horse coach horse coachhorse cock-horse covering horse cutting horse cutting-horse Dalecarlian horse dandy horse dandy-horse darkhorse dark horse dark-horse dawn horse dead horse devil's coach-horse devil's horse dishorse don't look a gift horse in the mouth draft horse draught horse drayhorse drum horse Dzungarian horse eat like a horse enough to choke a horse fairies' horse film horse Finnhorse Finnish horse fjord horse Flemish horse flog a dead horse Florida horse conch forehorse the horse's mouth get a horse get back on the horse get back on the horse that bucked one get off one's high horse gift horse grass mud horse healthy as a horse hebra henny high horse hobby horse hobby-horse hold one's horses hooden horse horned horse horseable horse and buggy horse and carriage horse and cart horse and foot horse and hattock Horse and Jockey horse and rabbit stew horse ant horse apple horseapple horse apples horse archer horse armor horse artillery horseback horseball horsebalm horsebarn horse bean horse-bee horse-bell horse blanket horse blob horse-block horseboat horse bot fly horsebound horsebox horse box horse boy horse brass horse-bread horsebreaker horse-breaker horsebreaking horsebreeder horsebrush horse bun horseburger horse bus horse butcher horsecar horse car horsecart horse chestnut horse-chestnut horsecloth horse cock horsecock horse collar horse-collar horsecollar horse-comb horse comb horse crab horsecraft horsecrap horsedealer horse dick horsedick horse doctor horsedom horse-drawn horse-drench horsedung horse engine horse-faced horse face horseface horse fair horse fame horse famous horsefeathers horse ferry horsefish horseflesh horse fly horsefly horse-fly horsefoot horsefright horsefucker Horsegate horse gentian horse girl horse-godmother horse gram horse guard horse guard wasp horsehair horsehead horse-head fiddle horse head fiddle horsehead fiddle horse-heal horseheal horseherd horsehide horse-hoarse merger horse hockey horse hoe horsehood horsehoof horse-hung horse iron horse-jockey horsekeeper horsekind horseknop horse-latitudes horse latitudes horselaugh horse laugh horselaughter horse leech horse-leech horseless horseless carriage horselet horse-like horselike horseling horse litter horse-litter horseload horse-lock horselore horsely horse mackerel horseman horsemanship horse manure horse marine horsemaster horsemeat horsemilk horse-milliner horse mint horsemint horsemonger horse mushroom horse mussel horsen horsenail horse-nail horseness horse nettle horsenettle horsenostrilled horse of a different color horse of a different colour horse opera horse-opera horse-operatic horse parlor horse paste horseperson horse pill horse piss horse pistol horseplayer horseplay horse-play horsepond horsepoop horse-power horsepower horse power horsepox horse-pox horseproof horse puckey horse pucky horse-race horse race horserace horse racing horse-radish horseradish horserake horse rider horserider horseriding horse salt horse scoop horse sense horses for courses horseshit horse shoe horseshoe horseshoer horse-shoe vetch horse show horse sickness horsesit horseskin horse soldier horse spray horse stance Horse Station Creek horse steroid horse-stinger horsetail horse tail horsethief horse thief horse tornado horsetrade horse trade horsetrader horse-trader horse trader horse-trading horsetrading horse trading horse trailer horse tranquilizer horsetwaddle horse-wain horse-watcher horseway horsewear horseweed horsewheel horsewhip horse whip horse whisperer horse-whispering horsewoman horsewood horseworm horsey horse-yard horsiculture horsie horsy hung like a horse Icelandic horse I could eat a horse if wishes were horses, beggars would ride Irish horse iron horse Kaimanawa horse Kansas horse plague Kicking Horse Pass Kimberley horse disease Latvian horse led horse lesson horse light horse lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen lock the stable door after the horse has bolted market horse master of the horse mechanical horse merhorse Mongolian wild horse Morgan horse mount a horse foaled by an acorn mount the high horse multihorse my kingdom for a horse never look a gift horse in the mouth no horse in that race no horse in this race no horse run nonhorse Numinbah horse sickness of course my horse Old Horse one-horse one-horse race one-horse town on one's high horse pack-horse pack horse packhorse paint horse pair-horse pantomime horse pick the wrong horse piss like a horse plowhorse ploughhorse pommel horse post horse posthorse post-horse Potomac horse fever prehorse Przewalski's horse Prejevalsky's horse Prjevalsky's horse Przhevalski's horse Przhevalsky's horse Przhevalskii's horse put the cart before the horse put the saddle on the right horse quarter horse racehorse rare as rocking horse shit rear-horse) redhorse red horse ride a horse foaled by an acorn ride a horse foaled of an acorn ride the cotton horse ride the high horse riding horse river horse road horse rocking horse rocking-horse rocking-horse shit rocking horse shit saddle horse salt horse saw-horse sawhorse school horse sea-horse sea horse seahorse a man about a horse shave horse shaving horse shire horse showhorse shut the stable door after the horse has bolted sick as a horse side horse snowhorse sorrel horse spring horse stalking-horse stalking horse steel horse stock horse stone-horse straight from the horse's mouth strong as a horse stud horse sumpter horse superhorse swap horses in midstream sweat like a horse take horse the grey mare is the better horse thill-horse Tokara horse towel-horse trace horse Trojan-horse Trojan horse troop horse underhorsed Vale of White Horse vaulting horse warhorse war-horse war horse waterhorse water horse werehorse wheelhorse wheel-horse wheel horse white horse Whitehorse wild horse willing horse wind horse witch's horse wooden horse workhorse work horse working horse work like a horse Yakutian horse yardhorse you can lead a horse to water you can't put the shit back in the horse zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse zeehorse zorse horse about horse around unhorse

词源

词源 1

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers-?
Proto-Indo-European *wers-
Proto-Indo-European *-ḗn
Proto-Indo-European *wérsēn
Proto-Indo-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šā
Proto-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šāder.?
Proto-Germanic *hrussą
Proto-West Germanic *hross
Old English hors
Middle English hors
English horse
From Middle English hors, horse, ors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of car and carrus.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots horse (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Cimbrian ross (“horse”), Dutch hors, ros (“horse”), German Ross, Roß (“horse”), Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk hors (“horse, mare”), Faroese hors, ross (“horse”), Icelandic hross (“horse”), Swedish russ (“horse”); also Cornish karr (“car”), Welsh car (“car; cart, wagon”), Latin currus (“car, chariot; wagon, wain”), Ancient Greek ἐπίκουρος (epíkouros, “aiding, assisting; defending; ally, helper; hireling”), Tocharian A kursär (“vehicle; mile”), Tocharian B kwarsär (“course; path”).

词源 2

From Middle English horsen, from Old English horsian (“to horse, provide with horses”) and ġehorsian (“to horse, set or mount on a horse, supply with horses”), from the noun (see above).

词源 3

Unknown; probably originally criminals' cant based on the initial letter of heroin and horse.

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