splint

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
  2. A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.; A splinter caught in the skin. West-Midlands
  3. A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
  4. A device to immobilize a body part.
    — [...] I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed.
  5. A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate. historical
    — The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other; and mail hose, reaching from the ancle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider's defensive armour.
  6. Synonym of splent coal.
  7. A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
  8. A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
动词 v.
  1. To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints. transitive
  2. To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
  3. To press fingers against the vaginal wall to ease defecation.
  4. To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter. obsolete,rare,transitive

词形变化

splints plural splints present,singular,third-person splinting participle,present splinted participle,past splinted past

词汇关系

衍生词
coaptation splint Frejka splint shin splint splintage splint bone splint coal splinter splintless splintlike splintwork nonsplinted nonsplinting splintable unsplinted

词源

词源 1
From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
词源 2
From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
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