loaf

B1 CET-4 高中 FREQ #10178 ★☆☆☆☆

n. 一条面包, 块, 游荡 v. 游手好闲, 虚度光阴

发音

UK /ləʊf/
其它
US /loʊf/

词形变化

loafs loaves 复数 loaves loafs 三单 loafing 现在分词 loafed 过去式 loafed 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

条，一条面包；块；游荡

bread that is shaped and baked in one piece and can be cut into slices

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    A block of bread after baking.

    一条面包

  2. 2.

    Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.

  3. 3.

    Ellipsis of loaf of bread: the brain or the head.

    俚语

    use one's loaf

  4. 4.

    A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.

  5. 5.

    A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.

    计算机 工程 数学
  6. 6.

    A catloaf.

    非正式 俚语
v.
  1. 1.

    To headbutt

    俚语
  2. 1.

    To do nothing, to be idle.

    不及物

    loaf about, loaf around

    They don’t (often) kill other animals, they probably form monogamous pairs, and we know they share parental care of chicks, and loaf and bathe in large, congenial groups.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

loaf of bread

上位词 3

bread breadstuff staff of life

下位词 10

meatloaf luncheon meat French loaf haslet head cheese loaf sugar lunch meat pound cake scrapple sugarloaf

部分词 1

heel
动词

同义词 10

bum lounge linger lurk tarry loiter hang around mess about arse about arse around

上位词 5

wait idle slug stagnate laze

下位词 2

lurch prowl

相关短语

loaf about loaf around loaf sugar n. 块状糖; 块糖 loaf pan loaf pans loaf sugars loaf bread loaf breads loaf of bread 长面包，面包片 half a loaf is better than none half a loaf is better than no bread half a loaf is better than no loaf Sugar Loaf Island Sugarloaf Mountain 面包山；休格洛夫山（巴西山名）

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz Proto-West Germanic *hlaib Old English hlāf Middle English lof English loaf * From Middle English laf, lof, loof, from Old English hlāf (“bread; loaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaib, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“bread; loaf”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old English hlifian (“to stand out prominently, tower up”). Cognates Cognate with German Laib (“loaf”), Danish and Swedish lev (“loaf”), Faroese leivur (“an oblong bun”), Icelandic hleifur (“loaf”), Norwegian Nynorsk leiv (“loaf”), Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐍃 (hlaibs), 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃 (hlaifs, “bread”) (whence Proto-Slavic *xlěbъ (“bread”) (see there for further descendants)), Estonian leib (“black bread”), Finnish leipä (“bread; loaf”); also Latvian klaips (“loaf”), Lithuanian kliẽpas (“loaf”). Doublet of chleb and khleb. * (brain or head): Rhyming slang, ellipsis of loaf of bread.

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