stake

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
    — We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
  2. A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
  3. A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
  4. The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned. with-definite-article
    — Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
  5. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
    — The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
  6. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
  7. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
  8. A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area. Mormonism
    — Every city, or stake, including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men.
动词 v.
  1. To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes. transitive
    — to stake vines or plants
  2. To pierce or wound with a stake. transitive
    — You see, I'd made a bargain with him to buy the horse for a hundred and twenty—a swinging price, but I always liked the horse. And what does he do but go and stake him—fly at a hedge with stakes in it, atop of a bank with a ditch before it.
  3. To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency. transitive
    — I'll ſtake my Lamb that near the Fountain plays, / And from the Brink his dancing Shade ſurveys.
  4. To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture. transitive
    — John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him.
  5. To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
    — Any peer can participate in the mining process by staking coins in order to validate a new transaction. To become a miner, there are two options; you can stake your coins to be used by a trustworthy node […], or you can submit a full node to be selected as a miner.

词形变化

stakes plural stakes present,singular,third-person staking participle,present staked participle,past staked past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”).
Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake, Spanish estaca.
词源 2
From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”).
Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake, Spanish estaca.
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