paternoster

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɑːtəˌnɒstə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈpɑtəɹˌnɔstɚ/|/-ˌnɑstɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
    — The friar had said his paternosters duly
  2. A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
  3. A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
  4. A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.
    — A paternoster is any style of hook rig where the hook(s) are on droppers above a fixed sinker. One or two hooks are used on a paternoster rig. The droppers are tied using dropper loops tied directly in the line. The twisted dropper is an ideal knot as it stands out at right angles to the line.
  5. A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said. archaic
  6. Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated. archaic
    — Holonyms: rosary; prayer beads
  7. A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts. archaic
  8. A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it. archaic
    — Near-synonyms: nostrum, nostrum remedium
动词 v.
  1. To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig. transitive

词形变化

paternosters plural paternosters present,singular,third-person paternostering participle,present paternostered participle,past paternostered past

词汇关系

衍生词
paternosterer paternoster lake paternoster pump paternoster wheel paternoster while

词源

词源 1
From Middle English paternoster, pater noster, from Old English Paternoster, from Latin Pater noster (“our father”) (the first two words of the Oratio Dominica (“the Lord's prayer”)), from pater (“father”) + noster (“our”). The lift and the fishing equipment are named from their resemblance to a rosary.
词源 2
From Middle English paternoster, pater noster, from Old English Paternoster, from Latin Pater noster (“our father”) (the first two words of the Oratio Dominica (“the Lord's prayer”)), from pater (“father”) + noster (“our”). The lift and the fishing equipment are named from their resemblance to a rosary.
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