| 单词 | corral |
| 释义 | corral (once / 1168 pages) 1nv 2v A corral is a pen for horses, cows, or other livestock. If your sheep get out of the corral, you'll have to take the dogs out to help you round them up again. The word corral comes either from the Spanish word corro, which means ring, or from the Old Portuguese word curral, meaning pen or enclosure. As a verb, corral means to gather up or collect. If you're in charge of the big library book sale, you'll have to corral lots of people into helping you. If you make a defensive circle with wagons or other vehicles, you have also corralled the wagons. WORD FAMILYcorral: corraled, corraling, corralled, corralling, corrals USAGE EXAMPLESAfter work, he usually drives himself to lunch at Golden Corral. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) Police officers from at least three surrounding jurisdictions worked for more than an hour to corral people and push them outside. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) Corralled by giant magnets, the electrons travelling around them emit radiation ranging in frequency from the infrared to X-rays. Economist(Dec 20, 2016) 1 1n a pen for cattle Syn|Hyper cattle pen, cow pen pen an enclosure for confining livestock 2v enclose in a corral corral the horses Hyper close in, enclose, inclose, shut in surround completely 3v arrange wagons so that they form a corral 2Hyper arrange, set up put into a proper or systematic order v collect or gather corralling votes for an election Hyper accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up get or gather together |
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