veer

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /vɪə̯/    美 /vɪə̯/|/vɪ(ə)ɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
    — […] there is always a sudden, though small rise in the barometer, and a sudden drop of temperature of several degrees, sometimes as much as ten or fifteen degrees; there is also a sudden veer in the wind direction.
  2. A piglet or a heifer. Cornwall
    — But with us veers are little pigs; and in some parishes heifers are called veers too. So you see it is not such a noble name with us, that I was going to be startled at the idea of a veer eating up my grass.
动词 v.
  1. To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out. obsolete
    — As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.
  2. To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve. intransitive
    — The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
  3. To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere). intransitive
    — 1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library It is clear that when a front passes the observer, there must be a sudden shift in wind: in the northern hemisphere it will always veer, that is, shift in a clockwise sense.
  4. To shift aft. intransitive
  5. To change direction into the wind; to wear ship. intransitive
  6. To turn. transitive

词形变化

veers present,singular,third-person veering participle,present veered participle,past veered past veers plural veers present,singular,third-person veering participle,present veered participle,past veered past veers plural

词汇关系

反义词
back haul forward

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Middle Dutch vierenbor.
English veer
Borrowed from Middle Dutch vieren (“to slacken”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Middle French virerbor.
English veer
Borrowed from Middle French virer.
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