stringer

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /stɹɪŋə/    美 /stɹɪŋɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
    — Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.
  2. Someone who strings someone along.
  3. A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
    — A startled man looked out the office window and then rushed for the door, but the boys were too quick for him. They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door.
  4. The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
  5. A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
  6. A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
    — And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday.
  7. A person who plays on a particular string.
  8. Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
  9. A hard-hit ball. slang
  10. A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
    — "Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat.
  11. A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
  12. A libertine; a wencher. obsolete
    — A whoreson tyrant! He has been an old stringer in's days
  13. A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.
    — [T]hose fellows know how to spot a stringer at work.

词形变化

stringers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bowstringer first-stringer second-stringer third-stringer

词源

Etymology tree
English string
English -er
English stringer
From string + -er.
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