pedal

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 pĕdʹəl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano.
    — There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics.
  2. an orthopedic structure or a footlike part.
  3. An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
  4. A stirrup. humorous
  5. The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ.
    — A small organ commonly has only one or two ranks on the pedal.
动词 v.
  1. To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
    — to pedal one's loom
  2. To operate a bicycle. intransitive
    — He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to the foot. not-comparable

词形变化

pedals plural pedals present,singular,third-person pedaling US,participle,present pedalling UK,participle,present pedaled US,participle,past pedaled US,past pedalled UK,participle,past pedalled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词
ambipedal back-pedal backpedal back pedal brake brake pedal carpopedal cerebropedal clutch pedal combination pedal equipedal foot pedal footpedal gas pedal go pedal hexapedal hydropedal interpedal intrapedal lateropedal loop pedal monopedal multipedal overpedal pedal bin pedalboard pedalboat pedal bone pedal car pedal curve pedal cycle pedal cyclist pedality pedal keyboard pedaller pedally pedal note pedal point pedal pub pedal pusher pedal pushers pedal squares pedal steel pedal steel guitar pedal steel guitarist pedal stool pedal-stool pedal stroke pedal to the metal pentapedal plesiopedal pleuropedal put pedal to the metal put the pedal to the metal quadripedal sesquipedal soft-pedal soft pedal sostenuto pedal suprapedal sustaining pedal una corda pedal unipedal wah pedal wah-wah pedal

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French pédale, Latin pedāl(is). By surface analysis, ped- + -al.
词源 2
Borrowed from French pédale, Latin pedāl(is). By surface analysis, ped- + -al.
词源 3
Borrowed from French pédale, Latin pedāl(is). By surface analysis, ped- + -al.
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