stalk

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /stɔːk/|/stoːk/    美 /stɔk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The stem or main axis of a plant.
    — a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats;  the stalks of maize or hemp
  2. A haughty style of walking.
  3. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
  4. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
    — grape stalks
  5. The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
    — When the stalk was over (the antelope took alarm and ran off before I was within rifle shot) I came back.
  6. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
    — they appear to be made up of little Bladders , like those in the Plume or Stalk of a Quill
  7. An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
  8. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
  9. A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
  10. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
  11. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
  12. An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
  13. Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  14. The penis. slang
动词 v.
  1. To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer. transitive
    — As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer.
  2. To walk haughtily. intransitive
    — With manly mien he stalked along the ground.
  3. To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ transitive
    — My ex-girlfriend is stalking me.
  4. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner. intransitive
    — [Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, / Pressing to be employed.
  5. To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover. intransitive
    — The king[…]crept under the shoulder of his led horse;[…]"I must stalk," said he.
  6. Of a person's social media activity: to look through thoroughly or obsessively; to keep tabs on, generally avoiding contact. Internet,transitive
    — Coordinate term: lurk

词形变化

stalks plural stalks present,singular,third-person stalking participle,present stalked participle,past stalked past stalks plural stalks present,singular,third-person stalking participle,present stalked participle,past stalked past stalks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English stalke, stelke, stalk, perhaps from Old English *stealc, *stielc, *stealuc, from Proto-West Germanic *staluk, *stalik, from Proto-Germanic *stalukaz, *stalikaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *stalô, *staluz (“support, stem, stalk”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, stand; be stiff; stud, post, trunk, stake, stem, stalk”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch staal (“sample”), steel (“stem”), German Stiel (“stalk”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål stilk (“stalk, stem”), Faroese stjølur (“bottom part of a sheaf”), Icelandic stilkur (“stalk, stem”), Norwegian Nynorsk stilk, stylk (“stalk, stem”), styl (“lower part of a straw”), Swedish stjälk (“stalk, stem”), Albanian shtalkë (“crossbeam, board used as a door hinge”), Welsh telm (“frond”), Ancient Greek στειλειή (steileiḗ, “beam”), Old Armenian ստեղն (stełn, “trunk, stalk”).
词源 2
From Middle English stalken, from Old English *stealcian (as in bestealcian (“to move stealthily”), stealcung (“stalking”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stalukōn, from Proto-Germanic *stalukōną (“to stalk, move stealthily”) (compare Dutch stelkeren, stolkeren (“to tip-toe, tread carefully”), Danish stalke (“to high step, stalk”), Norwegian dialectal stalka (“to trudge”)), from *stalkaz, *stelkaz (compare Old English stealc (“steep”), Old Norse stelkr, stjalkr (“knot (bird), red sandpiper”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telg, *(s)tolg- (compare Middle Irish tolg (“strength”), Lithuanian stalgùs (“stiff, defiant, proud”)).
Alternate etymology connects Proto-Germanic *stalkōną to a frequentative form of *stelaną (“to steal”).
词源 3
Attested 1530 in the sense "to walk haughtily", perhaps from Old English stealc (“steep”), from Proto-Germanic *stelkaz, *stalkaz (“high, lofty, steep, stiff”); see above.
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