cleat英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

— [...] the people of that island erected lofty spars along the seacoast, to which the look-outs ascended by means of nailed cleats, something as fowls go upstairs in a hen-house.
A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe or wheel meant for better traction.

— Near-synonym: calk
An athletic shoe equipped with cleats.

— He needs to put on five pieces of gear: his helmet, left glove, right glove, left cleat, and right cleat.

动词 v.

To strengthen with a cleat.

— An inner floor over the whole area of the deck provides a space for all the cable and pipe runs. On one side the cables are cleated into a duct which is sealed against the ingress of water and oil; the pipe lines run underneath the opposite side floor.
To tie off, affix, stopper a line or rope, especially to a cleat.

词形变化

cleats plural cleats present,singular,third-person cleating participle,present cleated participle,past cleated past

词汇关系

衍生词

expansion cleat French cleat

词源

词源 1

From Middle English clete, from Old English *clēat (“block, wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaut, from Proto-Germanic *klautaz (“firm lump”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelewd-, from *gley- (“to glue, stick together, form into a ball”). Cognate with Dutch kloot (“ball; testicle”) and German Kloß (“clump”). See also clay and clout.

词源 2

From Middle English clete, from Old English *clēat (“block, wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaut, from Proto-Germanic *klautaz (“firm lump”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelewd-, from *gley- (“to glue, stick together, form into a ball”). Cognate with Dutch kloot (“ball; testicle”) and German Kloß (“clump”). See also clay and clout.