shaft

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃɑːft/|[ˈʃʰɑːft]    美 /ˈʃäːft/|[ˈʃʰäːft]|/ˈʃɐːft/|[ˈʃʰɐːft]|/ˈʃæft/|[ˈʃæft]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow. obsolete
    — A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele, the feathers, and the head.
  2. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
    — Her hand slipped off the javelin's shaft towards the spearpoint and that's why her score was lowered.
  3. Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin. broadly
    — […]and the Thunder, / Wing'd with red Lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps hath ſpent his ſhafts […]
  4. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.; One of the poles between which a draught animal is harnessed to a vehicle.
    — While Kitto chatted to William, Jessamy looked with interest at the dog cart. It had a pair of high wooden wheels with two seats back to back above. Between the shafts the bay mare tossed her head and fidgeted on the cobbles.
  5. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.; A rotating machine element used to transmit power; a driveshaft
    — Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
  6. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.; The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
    — Sarah, if you wear gloves your hands might not slip on your shaft and you can up your game, girl!
  7. A beam or ray of light. literary
    — Isn't that shaft of light from that opening in the cave beautiful?
  8. The main axis of a feather.
    — I had no idea that they removed the feathers' shafts to make the pillows softer!
  9. A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine.
    — Your grandfather used to work with a crane hauling ore out of the gold mine's shafts.
  10. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator.
    — Darn it, my keys fell through the gap and into the elevator shaft.
  11. A ventilation or heating conduit.
    — Our parrot flew into the air duct and got stuck in the shaft.
  12. Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
    — Spirit, that made those heroes dare / To die, or leave their children free / Bid Time and Nature gently spare / The shaft we raise to thee.
  13. The main cylindrical part of the penis.
    — The female labia minora is homologous to the penis shaft skin of males.
  14. The chamber of a blast furnace.
  15. A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
  16. A component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.
    — Eight shafts are required to weave this structure. If you have four shafts, you may weave something similar by threading alternate blocks to plain weave and 2/2 basket.
  17. An act of sexual intercourse. slang
    — I sat on the sofa, got up, changed channels and doubted there'd be time to have a quick shaft and feign an orgasm today.
动词 v.
  1. To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery. slang,transitive
    — Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.
  2. To equip with a shaft. transitive
  3. To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with. slang,transitive
    — Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.

词形变化

shafts plural shafts present,singular,third-person shafting participle,present shafted participle,past shafted past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English schaft, from Old English sċeaft, from Proto-West Germanic *skaft, from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz. Cognate with Dutch schacht, German Schaft, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish skaft.
In Early Modern English, shaft referred to the entire body of a long weapon, such that an arrow's “shaft” was composed of its tip, stale, and fletching. Over time, the word came to be used in place of the former stale and lost its original meaning.
词源 2
From Middle English schaft, from Old English sċeaft, from Proto-West Germanic *skaft, from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz. Cognate with Dutch schacht, German Schaft, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish skaft.
In Early Modern English, shaft referred to the entire body of a long weapon, such that an arrow's “shaft” was composed of its tip, stale, and fletching. Over time, the word came to be used in place of the former stale and lost its original meaning.
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