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单词 bishop
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Definition of bishop in English:

bishop

noun ˈbɪʃəpˈbɪʃəp
  • 1A senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At first glance, the statement yesterday from bishops in the Episcopal Church USA looks pretty good.
    • The brothers' father was also an Anglican bishop of Low Church or Evangelical faith.
    • That governs, ordinarily, the arrangements of priests and bishops and archbishops within the Greek Orthodox Church.
    • The local diocesan bishop is charged with enforcement of all these requirements.
    • Under the proposal, Lutherans would also accept the historic line of bishops within the Episcopal Church.
    • The Catholic position is that there is only one true church of Jesus Christ, and its bishop is in Rome.
    • I fear the day when the laity selects the bishop of each diocese.
    • The spiritual peerage consists of the archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Church of England.
    • About 100 church members joined the bishop of Mississippi here for about an hour-long service here.
    • Two senior members of the bishop's staff quit when the service was cancelled amid claims by the Church that the timing was not appropriate.
    • With deference to tradition, the cardinals went first, archbishops and bishops followed and the priests came last.
    • The understanding of the role of the bishop in a diocese involves seeing the bishop as representing Jesus Christ among the priests and people of his diocese.
    • In the end, the episcopate came to the United States through the nonjuring bishops of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
    • The most important leader in every large church was a bishop who supervised other clergy.
    • The bishops of the Church of England have called upon all Christians to pray for a just and peaceful resolution to this crisis.
    • By the sixth century, Christian bishops and clergy had become far more numerous than the civil service.
    • The archbishops and bishops of the Church were likewise to contribute soldiers, or an equivalent amount in money.
    • The courses themselves are run by the church, with significant participation by the diocesan bishop.
    • There needs to be a real sharing of power in the church, especially in choosing pastors and bishops and in supervising church finances.
    • Certainly the pope and the church's cardinals and bishops must correct the mistakes of the past.
    Synonyms
    prelate, diocesan, metropolitan, suffragan, coadjutor
    Orthodox Church exarch
  • 2An African weaver bird, the male of which has red, orange, yellow, or black plumage.

    Genus Euplectes, family Ploceidae: several species, including the red bishop (E. orix), which has scarlet plumage with a black face and underparts

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Such costs should influence the female's decision of where to start a breeding attempt and might explain why female red bishops do not show a preference for males with many nests.
    • The cuckoo was taken from the nest of a red bishop bird.
    • I believe the bird upper right in the above photo is an Orange Bishop (Euplectes franciscanus).
    • Bright colored feathers of the bishop bird adorn his headdress.
  • 3A chess piece, typically with its top shaped like a mitre, that can move in any direction along a diagonal on which it stands. Each player starts the game with two bishops, one moving on white squares and the other on black.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then the two met in the seventh round and drew after 57 moves in an opposite-coloured bishop ending as both kept their title hopes alive.
    • The rook is no match for two bishops despite the extra pawns.
    • Black simply sacrifices one of the bishops for White's remaining pawn.
    • He shouted as he moved his bishop into check mate.
    • Unfortunately for White, his queen is overworked; it is the only piece guarding the bishops.
    • It may take him many weeks to realize that bishops move only along diagonals and rooks move only along orthorgonals.
    • Which of the following pieces is the most potent in a game of chess - the rook, the bishop the knight, the queen or the pawn?
    • But white blundered away a pawn when rooks were exchanged, then had to sack his bishop to stop a passed pawn.
    • Exchanging dark-squared bishops is of course a useful positional objective but will White have enough compensation?
    • For example, thinking that trading a rook and pawn for a bishop and knight is usually an equal trade.
    • But this resulted in the immediate loss of a piece as Adams took a pawn with his bishop attacking the black queen.
    • Every chess bishop moves on a diagonal, and none of those on black squares ever move to white squares (in the same game).
    • To move her bishop to strike his knight would leave the king open on two sides without escape, a checkmate.
    • After all, the knight was the only piece guarding the attacked bishop.
    • The pawn structure Black obtains with this move does not work well with the bishop on b7.
    • You may eventually notice that bishops stay on a single color, that pawns don't move very fast, or that the queen is feared by other pieces.
    • Though black got a good attack on the queenside, Prakash defended well and came up with the right moves to win the game in a bishop and pawn ending in 51 moves.
    • Each was set up on opposite ends of the board, with each player having two bishops and two rooks.
    • He therefore ignored the move, advancing a bishop across the board.
    • On the one hand, the pieces were easily distinguishable by easily recognisable symbols atop a pedestal - the King with a crown, the Queen with a coronet and the bishop by a mitre.
  • 4mass noun Mulled and spiced wine.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is sometimes called “purple wine” and received the name “bishop” from its colour.
    • The 2005 Glaetzer Bishop is dense plum/purple in colour, with crushed black pepper, liquorice and anise on the nose.
    • Glogg, gluhwein, poker beer, bishop, toddy, hot punch, flip, rumfustian, and wassail are all of the warmed spirit family.
    • Our guide handed out copies of a recipe for bishop, a kind of mulled wine popular in Victorian times at Christmas.

Origin

Old English biscop, bisceop, based on Greek episkopos 'overseer', from epi 'above' + -skopos '-looking'.

  • The meaning of Old English biscop is literally ‘overseer’, from Greek episkopos, formed from epi ‘above’ and -skopos ‘-looking’.

Rhymes

archbishop
 
 

Definition of bishop in US English:

bishop

nounˈbiSHəpˈbɪʃəp
  • 1A senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The most important leader in every large church was a bishop who supervised other clergy.
    • At first glance, the statement yesterday from bishops in the Episcopal Church USA looks pretty good.
    • The bishops of the Church of England have called upon all Christians to pray for a just and peaceful resolution to this crisis.
    • In the end, the episcopate came to the United States through the nonjuring bishops of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
    • With deference to tradition, the cardinals went first, archbishops and bishops followed and the priests came last.
    • By the sixth century, Christian bishops and clergy had become far more numerous than the civil service.
    • The Catholic position is that there is only one true church of Jesus Christ, and its bishop is in Rome.
    • There needs to be a real sharing of power in the church, especially in choosing pastors and bishops and in supervising church finances.
    • About 100 church members joined the bishop of Mississippi here for about an hour-long service here.
    • Two senior members of the bishop's staff quit when the service was cancelled amid claims by the Church that the timing was not appropriate.
    • That governs, ordinarily, the arrangements of priests and bishops and archbishops within the Greek Orthodox Church.
    • The archbishops and bishops of the Church were likewise to contribute soldiers, or an equivalent amount in money.
    • Under the proposal, Lutherans would also accept the historic line of bishops within the Episcopal Church.
    • The local diocesan bishop is charged with enforcement of all these requirements.
    • I fear the day when the laity selects the bishop of each diocese.
    • Certainly the pope and the church's cardinals and bishops must correct the mistakes of the past.
    • The courses themselves are run by the church, with significant participation by the diocesan bishop.
    • The brothers' father was also an Anglican bishop of Low Church or Evangelical faith.
    • The spiritual peerage consists of the archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Church of England.
    • The understanding of the role of the bishop in a diocese involves seeing the bishop as representing Jesus Christ among the priests and people of his diocese.
    Synonyms
    prelate, diocesan, metropolitan, suffragan, coadjutor
  • 2An African weaverbird, the male of which has red, orange, yellow, or black plumage.

    Genus Euplectes, family Ploceidae: several species, including the red bishop (E. orix), which has scarlet plumage with a black face and underparts

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The cuckoo was taken from the nest of a red bishop bird.
    • Such costs should influence the female's decision of where to start a breeding attempt and might explain why female red bishops do not show a preference for males with many nests.
    • I believe the bird upper right in the above photo is an Orange Bishop (Euplectes franciscanus).
    • Bright colored feathers of the bishop bird adorn his headdress.
  • 3A chess piece, typically with its top shaped like a miter, that can move in any direction along a diagonal on which it stands. Each player starts the game with two bishops, one moving on white squares and the other on black.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Unfortunately for White, his queen is overworked; it is the only piece guarding the bishops.
    • After all, the knight was the only piece guarding the attacked bishop.
    • Then the two met in the seventh round and drew after 57 moves in an opposite-coloured bishop ending as both kept their title hopes alive.
    • The pawn structure Black obtains with this move does not work well with the bishop on b7.
    • Each was set up on opposite ends of the board, with each player having two bishops and two rooks.
    • To move her bishop to strike his knight would leave the king open on two sides without escape, a checkmate.
    • Exchanging dark-squared bishops is of course a useful positional objective but will White have enough compensation?
    • He therefore ignored the move, advancing a bishop across the board.
    • For example, thinking that trading a rook and pawn for a bishop and knight is usually an equal trade.
    • But white blundered away a pawn when rooks were exchanged, then had to sack his bishop to stop a passed pawn.
    • Which of the following pieces is the most potent in a game of chess - the rook, the bishop the knight, the queen or the pawn?
    • On the one hand, the pieces were easily distinguishable by easily recognisable symbols atop a pedestal - the King with a crown, the Queen with a coronet and the bishop by a mitre.
    • It may take him many weeks to realize that bishops move only along diagonals and rooks move only along orthorgonals.
    • He shouted as he moved his bishop into check mate.
    • Black simply sacrifices one of the bishops for White's remaining pawn.
    • But this resulted in the immediate loss of a piece as Adams took a pawn with his bishop attacking the black queen.
    • Though black got a good attack on the queenside, Prakash defended well and came up with the right moves to win the game in a bishop and pawn ending in 51 moves.
    • Every chess bishop moves on a diagonal, and none of those on black squares ever move to white squares (in the same game).
    • You may eventually notice that bishops stay on a single color, that pawns don't move very fast, or that the queen is feared by other pieces.
    • The rook is no match for two bishops despite the extra pawns.
  • 4Mulled and spiced wine.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The 2005 Glaetzer Bishop is dense plum/purple in colour, with crushed black pepper, liquorice and anise on the nose.
    • It is sometimes called “purple wine” and received the name “bishop” from its colour.
    • Our guide handed out copies of a recipe for bishop, a kind of mulled wine popular in Victorian times at Christmas.
    • Glogg, gluhwein, poker beer, bishop, toddy, hot punch, flip, rumfustian, and wassail are all of the warmed spirit family.

Origin

Old English biscop, bisceop, based on Greek episkopos ‘overseer’, from epi ‘above’ + -skopos ‘-looking’.

 
 
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