tether

名词 n. 动词 v. 数词 num.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɛðə/    美 /ˈtɛðəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.
    — With the bulky, heavy helmet for the film strapped on, I was inside a fully immersive virtual world. With de la Peña playing minder and holding a tether which prevented me from bumping into walls, I somehow ended up inside the news story.
  2. The limit of one's abilities, resources, patience, etc. figuratively
    — Since his hours have increased, I feel that he is at the end of his tether.
  3. An attachment to a place, time, entity or person. figuratively
    — Despite moving, he maintained a strong tether to his culture back home.
  4. A strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay.
动词 v.
  1. To restrict with, or as if with, a tether. transitive
    — The cowboy tethered his horse outside the saloon.
  2. To connect to something else. transitive
    — The younger Targaryen feels as though she’s lost any intimacy that tethered her to compassion and humanity, and so all that remains is the imperious need to rule that has driven her all these years, now bereft of the warmth that previously tempered her.
  3. To connect to something else.; To connect (a smartphone) to a personal computer in order to give the computer access to the phone's Internet connection. Internet,transitive
数词 num.
  1. Alternative form of tethera. alt-of,alternative

词形变化

tethers plural tedder alternative tethers present,singular,third-person tethering participle,present tethered participle,past tethered past tedder alternative

词汇关系

近义词
hobble
衍生词
at the end of one’s tether detether microtether tetherin tetherless retether tetherable untether

词源

From Middle English tether, teder, from Old English *tēoder and/or Old Norse tjóðr ( > Danish tøjr, Swedish tjuder); both from Proto-Germanic *teudrą (“rope; cord; shaft”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dewtro-, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to tie”), or from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Cognate with North German Tüder (“tether for binding the cattle”), Swedish tjuder (“tether for binding cattle”).
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