wild

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
/ˈwaːld/|[ˈwaːld]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of weald. alt-of,alternative
  2. The undomesticated state of a wild animal. singular,with-definite-article
    — After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild.
  3. A wilderness. in-plural
    — 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.
  4. Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
动词 v.
  1. To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang. intransitive,slang
    — ...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding". "It's not a term that we in the police had heard before," the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. "They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell."...
  2. (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way. intransitive,slang
    — They had a big influence on me. They had a big influence on Brooklyn period. I like the nonsense. [laughs] They were wildin'. Everyone in Brooklyn was liking that shit. They're wildin'. Their story in the stu, it gets deep.
形容词 adj.
  1. Untamed; not domesticated.; Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
    — Near-synonym: indigenous
  2. Untamed; not domesticated.; Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
  3. From or relating to wild creatures.
    — wild honey
  4. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
    — I was filled with wild rage when I discovered the infidelity, and punched a hole in the wall.
  5. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
    — The fraternity was infamous for its wild parties, which frequently resulted in police involvement.
  6. Of unregulated and varying frequency.
    — The aircraft's navigational equipment should not be powered from the wild AC bus except in an emergency, as its computers can be damaged by variations in electrical frequency.
  7. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
    — Her mother was wild with fear when she didn't return home after the party.
  8. Furious; very angry.
  9. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
    — After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty.
  10. Enthusiastic.
    — I'm not wild about the idea of a two day car trip with my nephews, but it's my only option.
  11. Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
    — The novice archer fired a wild shot and hit her opponent's target.
  12. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
    — a wild roadstead
  13. Hard to steer.
  14. Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
  15. Amazing, awesome, unbelievable. slang
    — Did you hear? Pat won the lottery! — Wow, that's wild!
  16. Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical. slang
  17. Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
    — In this card game, aces are wild: they can take the place of any other card.
  18. Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
    — a wild track; wild sound
副词 adv.
  1. Inaccurately; not on target. not-comparable
    — The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.
  2. Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately. not-comparable
    — Let's record it wild.

词形变化

wilder comparative wildest superlative wilde alternative,obsolete wyld alternative,obsolete wilde alternative,obsolete wyld alternative,obsolete wilds plural wilde alternative,obsolete wyld alternative,obsolete wilds present,singular,third-person wilding participle,present wilded participle,past wilded past wilde alternative,obsolete wyld alternative,obsolete wilds plural

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English weilde, wield, wielde, wijlde, wild, wilde, wyld, wylde, wyled, wyyld, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz (“wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair; wool”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian wil (“wild”), Saterland Frisian wíeld, wüüld (“wild”), West Frisian wyld (“wild”), Bavarian wüd (“wild”), Central Franconian weld (“wild”), Cimbrian bill (“crazy, mad; wild; stupid”), Dutch, German, and Low German wild (“wild”), Luxembourgish wëll (“wild; savage”), Vilamovian wyłd (“wild”), Yiddish ווילד (vild, “wild; savage”), Danish and Swedish vild (“wild”), Faroese villur (“wild”), Icelandic villtur (“wild; lost; barbaric, savage; uncultivated; untamed”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vill (“wild”), vill (“lost”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (wilþeis, “wild”); also Cornish gwlan (“wool”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic olann (“wool”), Manx ollan (“wool”), Welsh gwlân (“wool”), Latin vellus (“fleece, wool”), villus (“hair, shaggy hair”), Ancient Greek λάχνη (lákhnē, “woolly hair; thin hair; soft nap or pile on cloth; quills hedgehog; leafage”), Lithuanian valai (“hair of the horse tail”), Belarusian во́лас (vólas, “single hair”), Czech and Slovak vlas (“single hair”), Macedonian влас (vlas, “fluff; thread (of hair)”), Polish włos (“single hair”), Russian and Ukrainian во́лос (vólos, “single hair”), Serbo-Croatian вла̑с, vlȃs (“single hair”), Slovene las (“hair on top of head; nap, pile”), Armenian գեղմ (geġm, “fleece, wool”), Central Kurdish پرچ (pirç, “fax, headhair”), Northern Kurdish hirî (“wool”), Persian گرس (gors, “curl, ringlet; braid”), Hittite 𒋠𒀸 (SÍG-aš, “wool”), Tocharian A urṇ (“the circles of white hair between the brows of the Buddha or other deity”), Tocharian B *ūrṇ (“the circles of white hair between the brows of the Buddha or other deity”), Sanskrit वल्श (valśa, “branch, shoot, twig”).
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