pat

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
发音 pǎt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep.
    — We heard a pat on the door.
  2. Clipping of patent. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping
  3. A light tap or slap, especially with the hands.
    — Give Mary a pat on the shoulder to get her attention.
  4. Clipping of pattern. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping
    — Work in pat to next underarm marker, sm, place next st on holder[…]
  5. A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
    — It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.
动词 v.
  1. To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
    — To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.
  2. To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
    — I patted the cookie dough into shape.
  3. To stroke or fondle (an animal). Compare pet. Australia,New-Zealand,South-Africa,UK
    — Do you want to pat the cat?
  4. To gently rain.
形容词 adj.
  1. Exactly suitable, fitting, apt; timely, convenient, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken.
    — a pat expression
  2. Upper-class, nobby. slang
  3. Trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality.
    — While most AIDS activists and researchers I spoke with agreed I shouldn't offer pat safe/unsafe categories, let me share some pretty widely accepted information.
副词 adv.
  1. Opportunely, in a timely or suitable way.
    — Now might I do it pat
  2. Perfectly.
    — He has the routine down pat.
  3. Straight, right, exactly, precisely.
    — Wauwa Pease says of the strategic position of the Pirates in the dining room: “They have taken the table near the upper doorway so they can make a speedy exit in case their lair is raided.” Of course, the Wauwas stand pat in the middle of the dining room, having nothing to fear.

词形变化

pats plural pats present,singular,third-person patting participle,present patted participle,past patted past more pat comparative most pat superlative more pat comparative most pat superlative pats plural more pat comparative most pat superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
asspat back-pat butter pat cow pat cowpat down pat headpat lovepat off pat pat hand pat on the back pat slide patter pitter-pat patball bepat pat down pattable unpatted patly patness stand pat
相关词
feel hit name strike

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pat (“a blow, stroke”), alteration (with loss of medial l) of *plat (> Scots plat (“a blow, buffet”)), from Old English plætt (“a sounding blow, a smack”), from Proto-West Germanic *platt (“a smack, slap, blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch plat (“a smack, blow, slap”), Middle Low German plat (“a smack, blow, beating”), Middle High German plaz, blaz (“a resounding blow, bang, crash”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.
词源 2
From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-West Germanic *plattjan, from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.
词源 3
Clipping of patrician.
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