lute

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /l(j)uːt/    美 /lut/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
  2. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight. countable,uncountable
    — He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used other lutes for similar purposes.
  3. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc. countable,uncountable
  4. A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
    — Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
  2. To fix or fasten something with lute.
    — To protect everything till it dried, a man […] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

词形变化

lutes plural lutes present,singular,third-person luting participle,present luted participle,past luted past lutes plural lutes present,singular,third-person luting participle,present luted participle,past luted past

词汇关系

衍生词
belute fat lute unlute

词源

词源 1
From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.
词源 2
From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).
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