limp

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 短语
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
    — She walks with a limp.
  2. A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.
  3. A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
动词 v.
  1. To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg. intransitive
    — Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.
  2. To be inadequate or unsatisfactory. intransitive,stative
  3. To happen; befall; chance. intransitive,obsolete
  4. To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion. figuratively,intransitive
    — The bomber limped home on one engine.
  5. To come upon; meet. obsolete,transitive
  6. To move or proceed irregularly. figuratively,intransitive
    — limping verses
  7. To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop. intransitive,slang
形容词 adj.
  1. Flaccid; flabby, resembling flesh.
  2. Lacking stiffness; floppy, flimsy.
    — a limp rope
  3. Soft; weak, in special physically weak.
    — Another line-out was stolen, and when the ball was sent left Clerc stepped and spun through limp challenges from Wilkinson, Chris Ashton and Foden to dive over and make it 11-0.
  4. Not erect. slang
  5. Not having an erection. slang
短语
  1. Acronym of Louis XIV, James II, Queen Mary of Modena and the Prince of Wales (a code-word among Jacobites) abbreviation,acronym,alt-of,historical
    — To intimidate the people, you drew up Resolves, and an Address to his Majesty, founded on evidence from Governor Barnard, the Commissioners of Revenue, Custom-house Officers, and a few poor, expectant and dependent creatures, whom your Limp corresponds with in Boston; and thereby, having imposed upon, and deceived the legislature, sanctified your despotism, at the expence of their last Liberties;

词形变化

limps present,singular,third-person limping participle,present limped participle,past limped past limps plural limper comparative limpest superlative limps present,singular,third-person limping participle,present limped participle,past limped past limps plural limps present,singular,third-person limping participle,present lamp past limped past lump participle,past limped participle,past Limp alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English limpen (“to fall short”), from Old English limpan, from Proto-West Germanic *limpan, from Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”).
Cognate with Low German lumpen (“to limp”), Middle High German limpfen (“to hobble, limp”), dialectal German lampen (“to hang down loosely”), Icelandic limpa (“limpness, weakness”).
词源 2
From Middle English *limp, *lemp, from Old English *lemp (recorded only in compound lemphealt (“limping”), from Proto-West Germanic *limpan, from Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”). Cognate with German lampecht (“flaccid, limp”), Icelandic lempinn, lempiligur (“pliable, gentle”). See above.
词源 3
From Middle English limpen, from Old English limpan (“to happen, occur, exist, belong to, suit, befit, concern”).
Cognate with Scots limp (“to chance to be, come”), Middle Dutch limpen (“to happen”), Middle Low German gelimpen (“to moderate, treat mildly”), Middle High German limfen (“to suit, become”).
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