rung

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ˈɹɐ̞ŋ/|/ˈɹäŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
  2. A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
    — One of its arms was a disabled flail which used to be wielded by Goodman Rigby, before his spouse worried him out of this troublesome world; the other, if I mistake not, was composed of the pudding stick and a broken rung of a chair, tied loosely together at the elbow.
  3. A position in a hierarchy. figuratively
    — the lowest rung of the society
  4. A floor timber in a ship. dated
  5. One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff. dated
  6. One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel. dated
  7. One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel. dated
动词 v.
  1. past participle of ring (only in senses related to a bell) form-of,participle,past
  2. simple past of ring dialectal,form-of,past
    — With ecchoing Shouts the vaulted Chamber rung, / Belle Chuck was now the TOAST of ev'ry Tongue.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a pig: having a ring through the nose. not-comparable
    — […] he passed by his gate with a decided scowl on his furrowed brow, and grunting and growling like a newly rung pig.

词形变化

rungs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
runged runghead rungless

词源

词源 1
From Middle English rung, from Old English hrung, from Proto-West Germanic *hrungu, from Proto-Germanic *hrungō. Cognate with Dutch rong (“pole, stanchion”), German Runge (“stake, pole, stanchion”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌰 (hrugga, “a staff”).
词源 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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