far

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
/fɑː/    /fɑɹ/|/fɐː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it. uncountable
    — A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ...
  2. A litter of piglets; a farrow. UK,dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To send far away. rare,transitive
    — But I wish he'd been farred before he ever came near this house, with his “Please Betty” this, and “Please Betty” that, and drinking up our new milk as if he'd been a cat. I hate such beguiling ways.
形容词 adj.
  1. Distant; remote in space.
    — He went to a far land.
  2. Remote in time.
    — the far far future
  3. Long.
    — I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already
  4. More remote of two.
    — At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
  5. Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
    — They are on the far right on this issue.
  6. Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
    — As sensible maketh a man differ from a stone, in a far difference; for other Species, as Beasts, have the same difference, but reasonable is the nearest, whereby he differeth from a stone, beasts, and all other things.
  7. Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture. not-comparable
    — far heap; far memory; far pointer
副词 adv.
  1. To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
    — You have all come far and you will go further.
  2. Very much; by a great amount.
    — He was far richer than we'd thought.

词形变化

farther comparative further comparative farthest superlative furthest superlative farthermost superlative furthermost superlative farther comparative further comparative farthest superlative furthest superlative fars present,singular,third-person farring participle,present farred participle,past farred past fars plural

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词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai
词源 2
From Latin far. Doublet of farro.
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