crab

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɹæb/    美 /kɹæb/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace. countable,uncountable
  2. Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,informal
  3. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
  4. A crab apple or wild apple.
    — I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;
  5. The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat. uncountable
    — But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
  6. A tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
  7. Various other animals that resemble true crabs:; Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters. countable,uncountable
    — Despite its name, the hermit crab is not a true crab!
  8. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
    — She swore to such things , that I could do nothing but swear and call names : upon which out bolts her husband upon me , with a fine taper crab in his hand and fell upon me with such violence , that , being half delirious , I made a full confession
  9. Various other animals that resemble true crabs:; A horseshoe crab. countable,uncountable
  10. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
  11. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
  12. A bad-tempered person. countable,uncountable
    — She so obviously enjoyed every second of the concert that only the most stubborn crab could not have been warmed by her charm.
  13. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
  14. An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis). countable,informal,uncountable
    — Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks.
  15. Ellipsis of crab angle. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,uncountable
    — The pilot had to hold fifteen degrees of crab during the approach to keep her plane from getting blown off the localizer course.
  16. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
  17. A playing card with the rank of three. countable,slang,uncountable
  18. A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water. countable,uncountable
  19. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use. countable,uncountable
    — -- "I suppose you wouldn't like to do a locum for a month on the South coast? Three guineas a week with board and lodging." -- "I wouldn't mind," said Philip. -- "It's at Farnley, in Dorsetshire. Doctor South. You'd have to go down at once; his assistant has developed mumps. I believe it's a very pleasant place." There was something in the secretary's manner that puzzled Philip. It was a little doubtful. -- "What's the crab in it?" he asked.
  20. An unsold book that is returned to the publisher. countable,dated,uncountable
    — […] the unsold copies may be returned to the original publisher , at a period fixed upon between Christmas and Easter; these returned copies are technically called krebse or crabs, probably, from their walking backwards. […] A says to B, "I have had eight thousand dollars' worth of your publications, three thousand were crabs, that makes five thousand."
  21. On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank. Singapore,countable,slang,uncountable
  22. A member of the Crips. countable,derogatory,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To fish for crabs. intransitive
  2. To irritate, make surly or sour obsolete
  3. To ruin. US,slang,transitive
    — I thought at the time that that little speech meant a savin' of eight dollars,[…] But the Missus crabbed it a few minutes after her and Bess come in the room.
  4. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
  5. To complain. intransitive
    — “The thing to do is to forget about the heat,” said Tom impatiently. “You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.”
  6. To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick British,dialectal
    — Get you to bed, drab, courage Or l'll so crab your shoulders!
  7. To complain about. transitive
    — Well, because of this state of things they crabbed his scheme from the first, ridiculed it, wrote against it, spread broadcast a feeling of distrust.
  8. To offend or insult. obsolete,transitive
    — If I think one thing and speak another, / I will both crab Christ and our Ladie His mother.
  9. To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab). intransitive
    — Mutt stalked forward, matching him, step for step, crabbing sideways the way wolves do when they're going for the kill.
  10. To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
    — Time slowed down then, became liquid in the aftermath of his grotesque, unfolding limbs; he crabbed his way down the faded line, rocking back and forth in braces he would use all his life.
  11. To move (a camera) sideways. transitive
    — If panning is not easy to make seem natural, crabbing the camera is even less like any action we perform with our eyes in the real world. There are a few circumstances in which we walk sideways: […]
  12. To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course. transitive
  13. To fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk. World-War-I,obsolete
  14. To back out of something. rare
    — “Nothing can possibly go wrong.” “Just as you say, sir. But I still have that feeling.” The blood of the Woosters is hot, and I was about to tell him in set terms what I thought of his bally feeling, when I suddenly spotted what it was that was making him crab the act.
  15. To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.

词形变化

crabs plural crabs present,singular,third-person crabbing participle,present crabbed participle,past crabbed past crabs plural crabs present,singular,third-person crabbing participle,present crabbed participle,past crabbed past crabs plural crabs plural

词汇关系

近义词
crab apple
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (“to scratch”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). More at carve.
Cognates
See also Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Danish krabbe, Swedish krabba.
Further cognates with frequentative-infix are Saterland Frisian krabbelje (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch krabbelen (“to scratch”) and German krabbeln (“to crawl”). Possibly related to English creep and Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”) etc.
Other origins have also been suggested, see Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos) (regarding the possibility of a substrate origin) and Persian خرچنگ (regarding possible ideophonic origin); compare also Old Armenian քարբ (kʻarb), German Krebs.
词源 2
From Middle English crabbe (“wild apple”), of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect skrabba (“sour apple, apple cart”).
词源 3
Possibly a corruption of the genus name Carapa
词源 4
From carabiner.
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