office

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈɒf.ɪs/|/ˈɔf.ɪs/    /ˈɔf.ɪs/|/ˈɔ.fɪs/|/ˈɑ-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A ceremonial duty or service, particularly
    — Golde (gaue he him)[…]for all maner of veſſels of euery offyce[…]
  2. A ceremonial duty or service; The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
  3. A ceremonial duty or service; Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
  4. A ceremonial duty or service; A daily service without the eucharist.
  5. A ceremonial duty or service; The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
    — In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily.
  6. A ceremonial duty or service; Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
  7. A ceremonial duty or service; Last rites.
    — The deuout offices of balming and anointing the dead bodies[…]
  8. A ceremonial duty or service; Mass, (particularly) the introit sung at its beginning. obsolete
    — The office, or Introite, (as they call it).
  9. A position of responsibility.
    — When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.
  10. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
    — She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office.
  11. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
    — Ang.... Doe you your office, or giue vp your Place, And you shall well be spar'd.
  12. Function: anything typically done by or expected of something. archaic
    — In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
  13. A service, a kindness. plural,regional
    — The secretary prevailed at the negotiations through the good offices of the Freedonian ambassador.
  14. Inside information. figuratively,slang
    — Giving the office—is when you suffer any person, who may stand behind your chair, to look over your hand.
  15. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly
    — The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant.
  16. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work; A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
    — The “Pall Mall Gazette” had its offices[…]in Catherine Street[…]
  17. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work; A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
    — There will be some of the family waiting for you at the coach-office.
  18. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work; A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures. US
    — This one was made out at a private office—Office is American for Surgery.
  19. The staff of such places. figuratively
    — The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.
  20. The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly figuratively
    — He's from our public relations office.
  21. The administrative departments housed in such places; A ministry or other department of government. Australia,UK,capitalized,figuratively,usually
    — The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
  22. The administrative departments housed in such places; Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy. abbreviation,alt-of,capitalized,figuratively,usually
    — A Biscayner is capable to be a Cavalier of any of the three habits without any scrutiny to be made of the Office, whether he be, limpio de la sangre de los Moros, that is cleare of the bloud of the Moores or no.
  23. The administrative departments housed in such places; A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business. figuratively
    — He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office.
  24. The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly (euphemistic, dated) a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories. dated,in-plural
    — As for the Offices, let them stand at some Distance from the House, with some low covered Galleries, to pass from them to the Palace it self.
  25. Clipping of inquest of office UK,abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,historical
    — If they find the treason or felony... of the party accused... the king is thereupon, by virtue of this office found, intitled to have his forfeitures.
  26. A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper. obsolete
    — All hunt in James Whitendales office.
  27. A hangout: a place where one is normally found. figuratively,obsolete,slang
    — His Office, any Man's ordinary Haunt, or Plying-place, be it Tavern, Ale-house, Gaming-house.
  28. A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit. UK,dated,slang
    — I withdraw into ‘the office’, otherwise the observer's cockpit.
  29. A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
  30. An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders. obsolete
    — […]For who would beare... The pangs of despiz'd loue, the lawes delay, The insolence of office... When he himselfe might his quietas make... With a bare bodkin?
  31. A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation. obsolete
    — Cassio.... Whom I, with all the Office of my heart Intirely honour[…]
  32. The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty. obsolete
    — […]whan the Quene of riche Arabia sawe all the wyſzdome of Salomon[…]⁊ the offyces of his miniſters, and their garmentes[…]ſhe wondred exceadingly[…]
动词 v.
  1. To provide (someone) with an office.
    — Is he officed in Congressional Relations or is he officed in SCA?
  2. To have an office. intransitive
    — "I believed that Dave was just doing a favor for his brother," said Somerville, who added that he assumed Lou and Dave officed together.

词形变化

offices plural offices present,singular,third-person officing participle,present officed participle,past officed past

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)).
The computing sense is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.
词源 2
From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)).
The computing sense is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.
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