stow

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /stəʊ/    美 /stoʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place, stead. rare
动词 v.
  1. To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. transitive
  2. To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. transitive
    — Yet everybody knows that a cargo properly stowed in a seaworthy craft reaches market in much the better condition than by rail, though perhaps it is some hours longer on the way.
  3. To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely. transitive
  4. To dispose of, lodge, or hide somebody somewhere. transitive
    — Ar.[…]The Marriners all vnder hatches ſtowed, / Who, with a Charme ioynd to their ſuffred labour / I haue left aſleep :[…]
  5. To cease; to stop doing something. obsolete,slang,transitive
    — But when I strove my flame to tell, / Says she, 'Come, stow that patter, / If you're a cove wot likes a gal, / Vy don't you stand some gatter?' / In course I instantly complied— / Two brimming quarts of porter, / With sev'ral goes of gin beside, / Drain'd Bet the Coaley's daughter.
感叹词 intj.
  1. A cry used by falconers to call their birds back down to hand. obsolete,transitive
    — His seconde hawke wexyd gery […] on the rode loft She perkyd her to rest. The fauconer then was prest, Came runnynge with a dow, And cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’ But she wold not bow.

词形变化

stows plural stows present,singular,third-person stowing participle,present stowed participle,past stowed past

词汇关系

衍生词
bestow misstowed overstow restow stowable stowage stow away stowdown stower stowing unstow

词源

词源 1
From Middle English stowe, from Old English stōw (“place, location”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōu, from Proto-Germanic *stōō (“a place, stowage”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place, put”). Cognate with Old Frisian stō (“place”), Icelandic stó (“fireplace”), Dutch stouw (“place”), German Stau (“congestion”). See also -stow.
词源 2
From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from Old English stōwian (“to hold back, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *stōōną, *stōjaną (“to stow, dam up”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place”). Cognate with Dutch stuwen, stouwen (“to stow”), Low German stauen (“to blin, halt, hinder”), German stauen (“to halt, hem in, stow, pack”).
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