hide

名词 n. 动词 v.
发音 hīd

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The skin of an animal. countable
  2. A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents. historical
    — The exact size of hides varied with soil quality, but each one generally encompassed 24 to 26 hectares.
  3. The human skin. derogatory,obsolete
    — O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide!
  4. One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril. US,informal,metonymically,uncountable,usually
    — to save his own hide
  5. (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them. countable
    — A Forest Trail and wild life hides lie 2 miles to the north-east. Blue hares, deer, wild geese, herons and duck can be discreetly observed from the hides.
  6. A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway. countable
    — In the early days of American settlement, hides were built into houses to provide protection from the Indians and to conceal merchandise from the threat of taxation or thievery.
  7. A covered structure to which a pet animal can retreat, as is recommended for snakes. countable
动词 v.
  1. To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover. transitive
    — He hides his magazines under the bed.
  2. To beat with a whip made from hide.
    — He ran last week, and he was hided, and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.
  3. To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find. intransitive
    — Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

词形变化

hides present,singular,third-person hiding participle,present hid past hidden participle,past hid archaic,participle,past hyde alternative,obsolete hides plural hyde alternative,obsolete hides present,singular,third-person hiding participle,present hided participle,past hided past hyde alternative,obsolete hides plural hyde alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
From Middle English hiden, huden, from Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”), from Proto-West Germanic *huʀdijan (“to conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *huzdijaną (“to hoard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewdʰ- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).
The verb was originally weak. In the King James Version of the Bible (1611), both hid and hidden are used for the past participle.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch huiden, Low German (ver)hüden, (ver)hüen (“to hide, cover, conceal”), Welsh cuddio (“to hide”), Latin custōs, Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to conceal”), Sanskrit कुहरम् (kuharam, “cave”). Related to hut and sky.
词源 2
From Middle English hyde, from Old English hȳd, from Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *kéw(H)tis (“skin, hide”) (compare Latin cutis (“skin, rind, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew(H)- (“to cover”), ultimately the same root as the above etymology. More at sky.
Cognates
See also West Frisian hûd, Dutch huid, German Haut, Danish hud, Welsh cwd (“scrotum”), Latin cutis (“skin”), Lithuanian kutys (“purse, money-belt”), Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “hollow vessel”), σκῦτος (skûtos, “cover, hide”).
词源 3
From Middle English hide, from Old English hīd, hȳd, hīġed, hīġid (“a measure of land”), for earlier *hīwid (“the amount of land needed to support one family”), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *hīwaz, *hīwō (“relative, fellow-lodger, family”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie with, store, be familiar”). Related to Old English hīwisc (“hide of land, household”), Old English hīwan (“members of a family, household”). More at hewe, hind.
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