lode

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ləʊd/    美 /loʊd/|/ləʉd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A way or path; a road. obsolete
  2. A watercourse. dialectal
  3. A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
    — The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small granitic intrusive body.
  4. A rich source of supply. broadly
    — In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns.

词形变化

lodes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
lodeship lodesman lodestar mother lode
相关词
loadstone

词源

Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.
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