scape

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
  2. Escape. archaic
    — I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
  3. The cry of the snipe when flushed.
  4. The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
  5. A means of escape; evasion. obsolete
  6. The snipe itself.
  7. The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
  8. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. obsolete
    — Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
  9. The shaft of a column.
  10. A loose act of vice or lewdness. obsolete
    — though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape
  11. The apophyge of a shaft.
动词 v.
  1. To escape (someone or something). archaic,transitive
    — No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face. / Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape, / This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.

词形变化

scapes plural scapes present,singular,third-person scaping participle,present scaped participle,past scaped past scapes plural scapes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
scapeless scapiform scapoid scape-wheel atscape scape-animal scape-bird scapegoat scapegrace scapethrift

词源

词源 1
From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.
词源 2
From Middle English scapen (whence also atscapen and ofscapen (“to escape”)), formed by aphesis from escapen, ascapen (“to escape”). Compare also Old French scapper, a variant of Old French eschaper, formed via similar process. Doublet of escape and scarper.
词源 3
Probably imitative.
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