spend

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure. countable,uncountable
    — I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
  2. Expenditures; money or pocket money. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — Total January spends by year
  3. Discharged semen. countable,uncountable
  4. Vaginal discharge. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To pay out (money). ambitransitive
    — I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.
  2. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
    — I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.
  3. To squander. dated
    — to spend an estate in gambling
  4. To exhaust, to wear out.
    — The violence of the waves was spent.
  5. To consume, to use up (time).
    — My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
  6. To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually. ambitransitive,dated
    — The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.
  7. To waste or wear away; to be consumed. intransitive
    — Energy spends in the using of it.
  8. To be diffused; to spread.
    — The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
  9. To break ground; to continue working.

词形变化

spends present,singular,third-person spending participle,present spent participle,past spent past spends plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bespend don't spend it all at once don't spend it all in one place forespend forspend heartspent misspend nonspending outspend overspend respend spaving spendability spendable spendaholic spend-all spend a penny spendathon spendful spend good money after bad spendicitis spending money spendless spend money like water spendocracy spendocrat spendthrift spend time spendworthy spendy spent force superspend time spent laughing is time spent with the gods tokens get spent underspend unspend

词源

词源 1
From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend.
Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).
词源 2
From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend.
Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).
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