prod

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /pɹɒd/|/pɹɔd/    美 /pɹɑd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
  2. Clipping of production (“the live environment”). abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,slang,uncountable
    — We've hit ten million users in prod today.
  3. Alternative letter-case form of Prod (“protestant”). Ireland,UK,alt-of,derogatory,slang
  4. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
  5. A production; a created work. countable,slang
    — Check our BBS for the latest prods.
  6. A poke.
    — "It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.
  7. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
    — The 125-pound prod (bow) drives bolt at 250 feet per second.
动词 v.
  1. To poke, to push, to touch. transitive
  2. To encourage, to prompt. informal,transitive
    — Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
  3. To prick with a goad. transitive

词形变化

prods present,singular,third-person prodding participle,present prodded participle,past prodded past prods plural prods plural prods plural

词汇关系

衍生词
prodder proddy prodnose unprodded cattle prod on the prod stock prod

词源

词源 1
Alteration of earlier brod (perhaps through influence of poke; compare prog), from Middle English brodden (“to goad, incite, urge; to sprout”), from brod (“goad, nail; shoot, sprout”), from Old Norse broddr (“shaft, spike, thorn”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz. Cognate with Icelandic broddur, Danish brod. Doublet of brad. Or, from or influenced by sound symbolism.
词源 2
Shortened from production.
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