| 单词 | to stop in |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stop in b. Scottish and northern. To thrust in the point or end of (a thing), to insert; to put in (a plant), hence to stop in, to plant. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > insert something pointed pickc1400 prickc1450 strike1576 stop1731 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > plant plants [verb (transitive)] setc725 planteOE impc1420 enroot1490 implant1610 to put in1657 to plant out1664 to put out1699 to stop in1826 to put down1865 1731 J. Moncrief Poor Man's Physician in H. G. Graham Social Life Scot. (1901) I. vii. 52 Stop the finger into a cat's ear and it will be whole in half an hour. 1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxxviii. 342 I planted that [tree]..; I dibbled the yearth, and stappit it in there. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To stop in,’ to plant. 1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Stop, to thrust; e.g. to stop the poker into the fire. 1896 A. J. Armstrong Cobbler o' Kirkiebrae xvii. 167 He..staps pushion'd preens through bonnie wee butterflies. to stop in d. to stop in: to pay a brief visit, ‘drop in’. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)] > visit informally to call in1573 to drop in1609 to look ina1616 to come round1620 to go round1636 to put in1668 to go around1742 to happen in1749 to run in and out1779 to come around1822 to pop in and out1846 to happen in with1883 to stop in1904 stop1905 1904 Dial. Notes 2 421 Stop in, vb. i., to call. ‘I stopped in at his house one day.’ 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. xxxvi. 402 He stopped in, not at all sure that on this first occasion he would be able to broach the dangerous subject. 1953 J. Cheever in New Yorker 22 Aug. 23/2 He was rude to his friends when they stopped in for a drink. 1963 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 26 Oct. 459/1 He was found dead in his crib by a family friend who had stopped in at the home. 1979 Yale Alumni Mag. Apr. (Suppl.) cn17/3 Classmates are eagerly invited to stop in! < as lemmas |
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