scout

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈskaʊ̯t/    美 /ˈskaʊ̯t/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
  2. The guillemot.
  3. A swift sailing boat. dated
    — So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers.
  4. An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
    — while the rat is on the scout
  5. A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
    — At the crack of dawn on Wednesday four different groups of scouts will climb the highest peaks in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to light flames and officially mark the start of the Paralympic torch relay.
  6. A person who assesses or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
    — We have met twice this year and, during our first interview, Mata spoke evocatively when remembering how, having joined Real Oviedo aged 10 in 1998, he was given a previously unimaginable opportunity. Mata sat in a car park in 2003, when he was 14, and watched his father talking to a Real Madrid scout.
  7. A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
  8. A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University. modern
  9. A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin. historical
    — He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; but, with the highest respect for friend Perkins (my scout) and his obliging friends, I shall make some enquiries before "letting in" with any of them.
  10. A fielder in a game for practice. UK
  11. A fighter aircraft. UK,historical
  12. A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
    — A scout topogram is initially performed during continuous table motion, generating an anatomic overview image similar to a conventional radiograph at the locked projection.
  13. A term of address for a man or boy. informal
    — "Listen, old scout," Mr. Osborn said solemnly, "you think New York is heartless, but that's not what it is."
动词 v.
  1. To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search. intransitive,transitive
    — An hundred horeſmen of my companie Scowting abroad vpon theſe champion plaines, Haue view’d the army of the Scythians, Which make report it far exceeds the Kings.
  2. To reject with contempt. transitive
    — to scout an idea or an apology
  3. To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush. Scotland
  4. To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout. transitive
    — Take more men, and scout him round.
  5. To reject the ideas or beliefs of (a person). transitive
    — Two months ago I should have scouted as mad or drunk the man who had dared tell me the like.
  6. To scoff. intransitive
    — So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.

词形变化

scouts plural scouts present,singular,third-person scouting participle,present scouted participle,past scouted past scouts present,singular,third-person scouting participle,present scouted participle,past scouted past scouts plural scouts present,singular,third-person scouting participle,present scouted participle,past scouted past scouts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English scout, scoult, from Old French escoute (“action of listening”), verbal noun from escouter (“to listen, heed”), from Latin auscultō (“to listen”). The verb comes from the noun.
词源 2
Of North Germanic origin. Compare Old Norse skúta, skúti (“taunt”), Middle English scoute (“a wretch, rascal, rogue”); thus may be related to English shout.
词源 3
From Middle English scoute, skoute (also schoute, shoute, schuyt), from Middle Low German schûte or Middle Dutch schute; or possibly from Old Norse skúta (“a small craft or cutter”). Compare shout (“flat-bottomed boat”), schuit.
词源 4
Uncertain. The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) groups the verb scout, scoot (/skut/, regionally /skʌut/) "cause liquid to gush" with a noun scout "sudden gush or flow of water, as from a spout or over rock", and considers the pair to be of Scandinavian origin, perhaps related to Old Norse skjóta (“shoot”); however, scout (or scut) was formerly also found as a word for "flow of water over rocks, waterfall; ridge or overhang of rocks" in various northern and central English dialects, and there suggested to have a different Norse origin, Old Norse skúti (“cave formed by jutting rocks”); it is possible that noun and the verb are unrelated. It is also unclear whether the noun meaning "guillemot" is related (the DSL gives it as a separate word, with separate spellings scout, scowt, skout, pronounced /skut/, of uncertain origin), but it might derive from their habit of pouring forth excrement.
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