tine

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
    — The tines of the fork were quite evidently of iron or steel, the girl did not know which, while the handle and the spoon were of the same material as the smaller vessels.
  2. Trouble; distress; teen. obsolete
    — As wither'd Weed through cruel Winter's Tine
  3. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
    — “I answer not the challenge of my prisoner,” said Front-de-Bœuf; “nor shalt thou, Maurice de Bracy.—Giles,” he continued, “hang the franklin’s glove upon the tine of yonder branched antlers:[…]
  4. A wild vetch or tare. dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To kindle; to set on fire. obsolete
    — Coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd.
  2. To shut in, or enclose. archaic
    — When I was then surrounded on every side by the fiends, and tined about by the blindness of the darkness, then hove I my eyes up and looked hither and yond, whether any help were to come to me, that I might be rescued; […]
  3. To rage; to smart. obsolete
    — Ne was there salve, ne was there medicine, / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.
形容词 adj.
  1. small, diminutive

词形变化

tines plural tiner comparative tinest superlative tyne alternative tines present,singular,third-person tining participle,present tined participle,past tined past tines present,singular,third-person tining participle,present tined participle,past tined past

词汇关系

衍生词
tine test tres-tine
相关词
prong tooth tool

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tine, alteration of Middle English tinde, tind, from Old English tind, from Proto-West Germanic *tind, Proto-Germanic *tindaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts (“tooth, peg”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tiende, Tiene (“prong, tine”), German Zind, Zint (“prong”). Compare also the related English tind and German Zinne.
词源 2
Unknown, possibly related to etymology 1.
词源 3
See teen (“affliction”).
词源 4
See tind.
词源 5
From Middle English tynen, from Old English tȳnan, from tūn (“enclosure”) (modern town).
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