| 单词 | to stick away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stick away to stick away 1. transitive. colloquial. To put or keep (something) in a place that is obscure or out of sight; to set aside or store away, esp. for safe keeping or future use. ΚΠ 1841 New World 14 Aug. 109/3 We have seen a little gem stuck away in a shady corner [of an exhibition], and a great..piece of paste set in a light which only served to expose its..feeble character. 1872 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 417/2 I'd like you to have my Latin grammar here... You might stick it away in a bookcase, for the sake of old times. 1921 Amer. Building Assoc. News Feb. 95 Even now, when I'm in my own store, I stick away a little twenty once a month. 1994 Canad. Living May 90/1 What parent hasn't tacked that first creation on the fridge until the edges curled and then quietly stuck it away in a drawer? 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 30 Oct. a29/2 ‘A lot of..hospitals have integrative medicine, but it's kind of stuck away in the basement,’ said Dr. Merrell. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, conceal [verb (transitive)] heeleOE forhelec888 i-hedec888 dernc893 hidec897 wryOE behelec1000 behidec1000 bewryc1000 forhidec1000 overheleOE hilla1250 fealc1325 cover1340 forcover1382 blinda1400 hulsterc1400 overclosec1400 concealc1425 shroud1426 blend1430 close1430 shadow1436 obumber?1440 mufflea1450 alaynec1450 mew?c1450 purloin1461 to keep close?1471 oversilec1478 bewrap1481 supprime1490 occulta1500 silec1500 smoor1513 shadec1530 skleir1532 oppressa1538 hudder-mudder1544 pretex1548 lap?c1550 absconce1570 to steek away1575 couch1577 recondite1578 huddle1581 mew1581 enshrine1582 enshroud1582 mask1582 veil1582 abscondc1586 smotherc1592 blot1593 sheathe1594 immask1595 secret1595 bemist1598 palliate1598 hoodwinka1600 overmaska1600 hugger1600 obscure1600 upwrap1600 undisclose1601 disguise1605 screen1611 underfold1612 huke1613 eclipsea1616 encavea1616 ensconcea1616 obscurify1622 cloud1623 inmewa1625 beclouda1631 pretext1634 covert1647 sconce1652 tapisa1660 shun1661 sneak1701 overlay1719 secrete1741 blank1764 submerge1796 slur1813 wrap1817 buttress1820 stifle1820 disidentify1845 to stick away1900 1900 B. M. Hicks Cape as I found It vi. 109 They played at sticking away (hiding) an egg. 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 475 Stick away, To, a common South African expression meaning to hide an object or to get into hiding oneself. 3. transitive. Sport (esp. Association Football). To hit or strike (a ball) into the required place, esp. into the net; (also) to score (a goal, etc.). Often with it as object.Cf. to put away 5a at put v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1973 Times 14 May 8/6 Close went for the hook, and although he did not quite middle the ball stuck it away safely amid even louder cheering. 1979 K. Jones How to play Soccer xi. 58 If Eusebio hadn't tried to burst the net, if he'd just stuck the ball away as he should have done, then we wouldn't have won. 1981 Observer 22 Feb. 27 Scarcely anyone in Britain has been sticking it away more readily that Steve Archibald over the past three seasons. 1996 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 1 June 55 He reckons he could stick the goals away in the sport [sc. shinty] just as successfully as he's done in football. 2015 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 21 May (Sport section) 55 He has the ability to change games with his goals... Give him a decent chance and he'll stick it away. < as lemmas |
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