lathe
名词 n.
动词 v.
美 /leɪð/
英文释义
名词 n.
- An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
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A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
— He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.
- The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
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A granary; a barn.
— […]lathe, a barn, is still used in some parts of Yorkshire, but chiefly in local designations, being otherwise obsolescent ; see the Cleveland and Whitby glossaries. ‘The northern man writing to his neighbor may say, “My lathe standeth neer the kirkegarth,” for My barn standeth neere the churchyard’
动词 v.
- To invite; bid; ask.
- To shape with a lathe.
- To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn, from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).
词源 2
From Middle English *lath, leth, from Old English lǣþ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāþ.
词源 3
From Middle English lathe (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”)—compare dialectal Danish lad (“stand, support frame”) (as in drejelad (“turning-lathe”), savelad (“saw bench”)), dialectal Norwegian la, lad (“pile, small wall”), dialectal Swedish lad (“folding table, lay of a loom”)—from hlaða (“to load”). More at lade.
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