ledge

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /lɛd͡ʒ/    美 /lɛd͡ʒ/|/led͡ʒ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface.
    — Let me help you tie the rope around your neck / Let me help to talk you the wrong way off the ledge / Let me help you hold the Glock against your head
  2. Alternative form of lege (“a legend; a person held in high regard”). alt-of,alternative,slang
    — http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/pete-jenson-adebayors-fresh-start-means-hard-work-short-hair-ndash-and-vital-goals-2263767.html, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/8605605/Andy-Murray-v-Feliciano-Lopez-at-Wimbledon-2011-as-it-happened.html, https://web.archive.org/web/20121109021139/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19083758
  3. A provincial or territorial legislature building. Canada,slang
    — Known to Edmontonians as "the Ledge", the Alberta Legislature Building is a marvel of marble pillars, carved oak, beautiful Beaux-Arts architecture and stunning grounds.
  4. A shelf on which articles may be laid.
  5. A provincial or territorial legislative assembly. Canada,slang
  6. A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
  7. A layer or stratum.
  8. A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
  9. A (door or window) lintel.
  10. A cornice.
  11. A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
动词 v.
  1. To cause to have, or to develop, a ledge (during mining, canal construction, building, etc). uncommon
    — [...] preparation must not remove excess dentine from the canal, and care must be taken not to ledge the canal walls.

词形变化

ledges plural ledges present,singular,third-person ledging participle,present ledged participle,past ledged past ledges plural ledges plural

词汇关系

衍生词
foreledge Grand Ledge ledgeless ledgment ledgy portaledge underledge

词源

词源 1
From Middle English legge, from Old English leċġ (“bar, crossbeam”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggju (“layer, strip, ledge, rung, bar”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjō (“layer, stratum”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”). Cognate with West Frisian lêch (“a layer of sheaves on a threshing floor”), Dutch leg (“layer”), German Low German Legg (“wrinkle, fold, flat layer, stratum”), Middle High German legge, lecke (“position, layer, stratum, tier; pleat, hem”). Related to Middle English leggen (“to lay, apply”), from Old English leċġan (“to lay”); and Old English *ġeleċġ (“positioning, arrangement, layout”) as in Old English limġeleċġ (“the disposition of the limbs, form, shape”). More at lay.
词源 2
Shortening of legislature.
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