stalemate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves, resulting in a draw. countable,uncountable
    — The game is drawn when the player to move has no legal move and his/her king is not in check. The game is said to end in ‘stalemate’. This immediately ends the game, provided that the move producing the stalemate position was in accordance with Article 3 and Articles 4.2 – 4.7.
  2. Any situation that has no obvious possible movement, but involves no personal loss. broadly,countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — "Short of shooting us all in cold blood how's that going to help you, Mr. Carrados?" asked Larch, coming down to the commonplace of the situation. "It looks like stalemate to me and the sensible thing would be to make it a draw and all call off in good order. […]"
  3. Any kind of match in which neither contestant laid claim to victory; a draw. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To bring about a state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves. transitive
  2. To bring about a stalemate, in which no advance in an argument is achieved. figuratively,transitive
    — The North Korean nuclear issue, stalemated for the past three years, is now back in play again—not before time.

词形变化

stalemates plural stalemates present,singular,third-person stalemating participle,present stalemated participle,past stalemated past

词汇关系

衍生词
stalemater
相关词
check checkmate

词源

词源 1
From stale + mate.
词源 2
From stale + mate.
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