spell

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 spĕl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
    — He cast a spell to cure warts.
  2. A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk. Northern-England
    — To swadle a bowe much about wyth bandes, verye seldome dothe anye good, excepte it be to kepe downe a spel in the backe.
  3. A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
  4. A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
    — under a spell
  5. The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
  6. A definite period (of work or other activity). informal
    — A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
  7. Speech, discourse. obsolete
  8. An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance. colloquial
    — Even Mrs. Harker seems to lose sight of her trouble for whole spells. [...] When he had spoken, Mina's long spell of silence made me look at her.
  9. A period of rest; time off.
  10. A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc. US,colloquial
  11. An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
动词 v.
  1. To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
    — Vnchaine your spirits now with spelling Charmes,
  2. To work in place of (someone). transitive
    — to spell the helmsman
  3. To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. intransitive,sometimes,transitive
    — I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic.
  4. To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break. transitive
    — They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.
  5. To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort. obsolete,transitive
    — "He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
  6. To rest from work for a time. colloquial,intransitive
  7. Of letters: to compose (a word). transitive
    — The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.
  8. To clarify; to explain in detail. figuratively,transitive
    — Please spell it out for me.
  9. To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun. transitive
    — This spells trouble.
  10. To constitute; to measure.
    — the Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect
  11. To speak, to declaim. obsolete
    — O who can tell / The hidden power of herbes, and might of Magicke spell?
  12. To tell; to relate; to teach. obsolete
    — 1770, Thomas Warton, “Ode on the Approach of Summer” in A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, London: G. Pearch, Volume 1, p. 278, As thro’ the caverns dim I wind, Might I that legend find, By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes,
  13. To notate or indicate a pitch, interval, or chord using a particular enharmonic spelling.
    — The note D♭ is spelled differently from C♯, even though they sound equivalent.

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词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English spell, spel, from Old English spell (“news, story”), from Proto-Germanic *spellą (“speech, account, tale”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to tell”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to speak, to sound”) with the s-mobile prefix. Cognate with dialectal German Spill, Icelandic spjall (“discussion, talk”), spjalla (“to discuss, to talk”), guðspjall (“gospel”) and Albanian fjalë (“word”).
词源 2
From Middle English spellen, from Anglo-Norman espeler, espeleir, Old French espeller, espeler (compare Modern French épeler), from Frankish *spelōn, merged with native Old English spellian (“to tell, speak”), both eventually from Proto-Germanic *spellōną (“to speak”). Related with etymology 1. The sense “indicate a future event” probably in part a backformation from forespell (literally “to tell in advance”).
词源 3
From Middle English spelen, from Old English spelian (“to represent, take or stand in the place of another, act as a representative of another”), akin to Middle English spale (“a rest or break”), Old English spala (“representative, substitute”).
词源 4
From Middle English spel (“a thin piece of wood”), from Old Norse [Term?].
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