moonlight

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈmuːnlaɪt/    美 /ˈmunˌlaɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it. also,attributive,uncountable,usually
    — Meronym: moonbeam
  2. The silvery colour of the light reflected by the Moon. archaic,uncountable,usually
  3. Synonym of moonshine (“illegally produced or smuggled spirits”). UK,archaic,dialectal,uncountable,usually
    — Barter'd for game from chace or warren won, / Yon cask holds moonlight, run when moon was none; / And late-snatch'd spoils lie stow'd in hutch apart, / To wait the associate higgler's evening cart.
  4. Chiefly in to do a moonlight: short for moonlight flit (“an act of secretly leaving premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon; hence, any act of escaping at night”). countable,informal,usually
  5. A picture of a scene illuminated by light reflected by the Moon. countable,obsolete,uncountable,usually
  6. A journey made at night when the Moon is shining. US,countable,obsolete,rare,uncountable
  7. An oratorical competition; also, a participant in such a competition. US,countable,obsolete,uncountable,usually
动词 v.
  1. To do a moonlight flit: to secretly leave premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon. informal,intransitive
  2. To make a night-time attack on a tenant farmer not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League. Ireland,historical,intransitive
  3. To do work for pay (sometimes illegally, secretly, or without paying income tax on the earnings) which is in addition to a main job, often in the evening or at night. informal,intransitive
    — There are three individual rear seats. They all slide, they all fold, or they can all be removed completely, so that you can moonlight as a van.
  4. To do work for pay (sometimes illegally, secretly, or without paying income tax on the earnings) which is in addition to a main job, often in the evening or at night.; To engage in an activity other than what one is known for. informal,intransitive
    — Mr. [Jeffrey] Katzenberg, who moonlights as a top [Joe] Biden official and has worked with Mr. [George] Clooney on philanthropy for decades, reached out to him to see if there was an off-ramp, according to three people familiar with the matter.
  5. To do work for pay (sometimes illegally, secretly, or without paying income tax on the earnings) which is in addition to a main job, often in the evening or at night.; Of a thing: to perform a secondary function substantially different from a supposed primary function. informal,intransitive
    — Some proteins have a primary function of acting as enzymes, but moonlight by carrying out secondary roles such as signal transduction or transcriptional regulation.
  6. Of a tenant farmer: to be attacked for not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League. Ireland,historical,transitive

词形变化

moonlights plural moonlights present,singular,third-person moonlighting participle,present moonlighted participle,past moonlighted past

词汇关系

衍生词
do a moonlight flit moonlight-and-magnolia moonlight and roses moonlight blue moonlight flit moonlight requisition moonlight school moonlight tower moonlighty stink like a mackerel in the moonlight moonlighter moonlighting
相关词
moonlit

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s
Proto-Germanic *mēnô
Proto-West Germanic *mānō
Old English mōna
Middle English mone
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
Middle English moonelight
English moonlight
The noun is derived from Middle English moonelight, monelight, mone lyght (“light of the moon; (heraldry) pattern of moons on the field of a heraldic banner”), from mon, mone (“moon”) (from Old English mōna (“moon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon; month”)) + light (“light”) (from Old English lēoht (“light”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)). By surface analysis, moon + light.
The verb is derived from the noun. Verb sense 1.1 (“to secretly leave premises without paying the rent”) is a back-formation from moonlight flit, while verb sense 1.2 (“to make a night-time attack on a tenant farmer”) is probably a back-formation from moonlighter.
cognates
* Dutch maanlicht
* German Mondlicht
* Scots muinlicht, munelicht
* West Frisian moanneljocht
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s
Proto-Germanic *mēnô
Proto-West Germanic *mānō
Old English mōna
Middle English mone
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
Middle English moonelight
English moonlight
The noun is derived from Middle English moonelight, monelight, mone lyght (“light of the moon; (heraldry) pattern of moons on the field of a heraldic banner”), from mon, mone (“moon”) (from Old English mōna (“moon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon; month”)) + light (“light”) (from Old English lēoht (“light”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)). By surface analysis, moon + light.
The verb is derived from the noun. Verb sense 1.1 (“to secretly leave premises without paying the rent”) is a back-formation from moonlight flit, while verb sense 1.2 (“to make a night-time attack on a tenant farmer”) is probably a back-formation from moonlighter.
cognates
* Dutch maanlicht
* German Mondlicht
* Scots muinlicht, munelicht
* West Frisian moanneljocht
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