staff

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 [stɑːf]    美 [stäːf]|[stɐːf]|[stæf]|[stɛəf]|[steəf]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking. countable,uncountable
    — And thus ſhall ye eate it [the lamb]: with your loines girded, your ſhooes on your feet, and your ſtaffe in your hand: and ye ſhall eate it in haſte: it is the Lords Paſſeouer.
  2. Misspelling of staph. alt-of,misspelling
  3. A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave. countable,uncountable
  4. The employees of a business. countable,uncountable
    — The company employed 10 new members of staff this month.
  5. A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering. uncountable
  6. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office. countable,uncountable
    — a constable's staff
  7. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed. countable,uncountable
  8. The rung of a ladder. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves.
  9. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave. countable,uncountable
    — Mr. Cowley had found out, that no kind of Staff is proper for an Heroick Poem; as being all too lirical:
  10. An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. countable,uncountable
  11. The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder. countable,uncountable
  12. An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. countable,uncountable
    — At the head of that division which had Westminster Bridge for its approach to the scene of action, Lord George Gordon took his post; with Gashford at his right hand, and sundry ruffians, of most unpromising appearance, forming a kind of staff about him.
  13. A form of token once used, in combination with a ticket, for safe train movements between two points on a single line. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — The train-staff and ticket system was used widely at one time, until superseded by electrical token systems, the first of which, the tablet system, appeared in 1878, […].
动词 v.
  1. To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members. transitive
    — Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.

词形变化

staffs plural staves plural staff plural staffs present,singular,third-person staffing participle,present staffed participle,past staffed past

词汇关系

近义词
stick stave
衍生词
Aesculapian staff airstaff air staff almucantar staff backroom staff barstaff bass staff bedstaff bookstaff broomstaff cantoral staff centurion's staff chief of staff churn-staff cleystaff completed staff work constaff cowlstaff cowl-staff cross-staff destaff dogs have masters, cats have staff dogs have owners, cats have staff doorstaff flag-staff flagstaff flag staff forestaff general staff grand staff ground staff groundstaff half staff half-staff handstaff jack-staff jackstaff Jacob's staff Jedburgh staff Jeddart staff Jupiter's staff leveling staff levelling staff level staff Longstaff member of staff Mercury's staff nonstaff offset staff orange staff sergeant packstaff paddle-staff palmer's staff pikestaff pilgrim's staff ploughstaff plowstaff quarterstaff ragged staff set up one's staff short-staff skeleton staff speaker's staff staffaculty staff angle staff captain staff college staff corps staff function staffless staffman staff nurse staff of Asclepius staff officer staff of life staffroom staff sergeant staff sergeant major staff sling staff surgeon staff system staff tree staff up staff vine staffwide station staff tau staff tipstaff treble staff verge-staff verge staff vine staff vine-staff waiting staff wait staff waitstaff whipstaff wring-staff staffer
相关词
baton bludgeon cane club cudgel rod stick truncheon

词源

From Middle English staf, from Old English stæf (“letter of the alphabet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stab, from Proto-Germanic *stabaz. Cognate with Dutch staf, German Stab, Danish stav, Swedish stav.
Sense of "group of military officers that assists a commander" and similar meanings, attested from 1702, is influenced by or is even from German Stab.
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