英语词汇“stow”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINstow

Origin:

1300-1400 stow ‘place’ (11-14 centuries), from Old English

VERB TABLE

stow

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	stow
	he, she, it	stows
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	stowed
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have stowed
	he, she, it	has stowed
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had stowed
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will stow
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have stowed

Continuous Form
Present	I	am stowing
	he, she, it	is stowing
	you, we, they	are stowing
Past	I, he, she, it	was stowing
	you, we, they	were stowing
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been stowing
	he, she, it	has been stowing
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been stowing
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be stowing
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been stowing

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

All of our camping equipment is stowed in the attic.
In the daytime the mattress is stowed away in that cupboard.
She stowed her luggage on the rack above her head and then sat down.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

I paid the driver, stowed the chair, and guided the old man to some seats up the back.
It would also be easy to take down and stow in stormy weather.
Our driver got the mail bags stowed away, and made his horses strike out in good style.
The sweaters hung beneath the open hatch, the sink was empty and the oilskins stowed away.
These four tubs had been stowed in the open midships section by the base of the foremast.
They should be packaged and stowed securely.
Trickles of rainwater dripped into the cabins and soaked any clothing that was not safely stowed in watertight kit-bags.

Longman Language Activatorto hide yourself► hide

to go somewhere where you cannot be easily found or seen: · Dad's coming. Quick - hide!hide under/behind/in etc: · Dale hid behind some garbage cans in the alley until the men passed.· The cat always hides under the bed when we have visitors.hide from: · Why is he hiding from us? Is he afraid?

► go into hiding

to go to a safe place where you can hide for a long time because you are in danger or because the police are looking for you: · He went into hiding soon after the government denounced him.· Police believe the robbers have gone into hiding.

► lie low

to hide from people who are trying to catch you, and to make sure you do not attract any attention until it is safe to come out: · If you don't want to go back to jail, you'd better lie low for a while.· Weaver had been lying low at his sister's apartment for the past week.

► hole up

to hide somewhere and not go out at all, especially because the police are looking for you: · We were all planning to hole up till the trouble blew over.hole up in/on etc something: · The gang holed up in a cheap hotel for a few weeks.be holed up in/on etc something: · The FBI believes that Richards is holed up on an estate in Colombia.

► stow away

to hide in a ship in order to travel to a place without being noticed and without paying: · With no money, his only hope of getting to New York was to stow away on the next ship.· Customs officials discovered several illegal immigrants stowed away at the front of the ship.

► conceal yourself

formal to hide yourself carefully so that you cannot be seen: · When police arrived, Black made no effort to hide or conceal herself.conceal yourself in/beneath/behind etc: · It was easy for the man to conceal himself in the museum before closing time.conceal yourself from: · Many spiders spin special webs to conceal themselves from danger.

► lie in wait

to hide in a place in order to attack or stop someone you know will come there: · The tank commander feared there might be enemy soldiers lying in wait in the hills up ahead.lie in wait for: · Aitkins lay in wait for his victims and shot them as they walked toward their front door.

► lurk/skulk

to wait or move around in a particular area while trying not to be seen, especially because you are going to do something wrong or something you do not want other people to know about: · Who's that skulking over there?lurk/skulk around/about: · Police received reports of a man lurking around the neighborhood.lurk/skulk in/behind/under etc: · I'm sure I saw someone lurking in the bushes just now.· He skulked along the street, looking this way and that to see if anyone was following him.

to put something somewhere while it is not being used► store

to put something somewhere and keep it there until it is needed: store something in/under etc: · Store the vegetables in a cool dark place.· The computer stores the information in its memory automatically.store something away (=store something where it cannot be seen): · Instead of being distributed, the food was unloaded and stored away in a warehouse.

► stash

to put something such as money, valuable things, or drugs in a secret place, especially when you have them illegally: · The two men were looking for a place to stash their weapons.stash away something/stash something away: · He has illegally stashed away as much as $50 in foreign bank accounts.stash something in something: · The stolen goods had been stashed in a storage unit in Burbank.have something stashed away: · He must have all that money stashed away somewhere.

► stow

to put something such as equipment or a bag neatly in a space until you need it again: stow something in/on/under etc: · She stowed her luggage on the rack above her head and then sat down.stow something away (=stow it where it cannot be seen): · In the daytime the mattress is stowed away in that cupboard.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► away

· He would have time to stow away the kohlrabi, the offal and the edenwort.· The door closed, and Renwick could safely stow away his cigarette case.· Our driver got the mail bags stowed away, and made his horses strike out in good style.· The sweaters hung beneath the open hatch, the sink was empty and the oilskins stowed away.· It seems, Freddie as he's been named, stowed away with a consignment of bananas from the Windward Islands.· Once the luggage was stowed away on board Penry lifted her on the deck of the Angharad and cast off.· The antique musical instruments had been stowed away in the glass-fronted cabinets.· At the age of thirteen Billing stowed away on a ship bound for Delagoa Bay.