| 单词 | fence |
| 释义 | fence (once / 190 pages) 1nv 2nv 3v A fence is a usually wooden or metal structure that encloses a yard, pasture, or other area. Many people with back yard swimming pools put fences around them to make sure small children don't fall in. The difference between a fence and a wall is that you can almost always see through a fence, at least to some degree, while a wall is solid. You can use fence as a verb too: "I think I'll fence my yard in, because my chickens keep wandering off." If someone calls you a fence, though, they mean you're selling stolen goods, and if you fence professionally, you participate in the sword fighting sport of fencing. WORD FAMILYfence: fenced, fencelike, fencer, fences, fencing+/fenced: unfenced/fencer: fencers/fencing: fencings USAGE EXAMPLESFifty Moroccan and five Spanish border guards were injured when 1,100 migrants tried to get over the fence on Sunday. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) In past years, he used to fence competitively and win championships. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) At one point, Harriott was walking alongside the stadium fence when a Booker T. player jogged over and taunted him: “You’re next.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a barrier that serves to enclose an area Syn|Hypo|Hyper fencing backstop (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field chainlink fencea fence of steel wires woven into a diamond pattern hedge, hedgerowa fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes paling, picket fencea fence made of upright pickets rail fencea fence (usually made of split logs laid across each other at an angle) stone walla fence built of rough stones; used to separate fields walla masonry fence (as around an estate or garden) weira fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish dry wall, dry-stone walla stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar party walla wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners privet hedgehedge of privet plants retaining walla wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) shelterbelt, windbreakhedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion Virginia fence, snake fence, snake-rail fence, worm fencerail fence consisting of a zigzag of interlocking rails barrier a structure or object that impedes free movement 2v surround with an enclosure we fenced in our yard Syn|Hyper fence in close in, enclose, inclose, shut in surround completely 3v surround with a wall in order to fortify 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper fence in, palisade, surround, wall stockade surround with a stockade in order to fortify circumvallatesurround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification protect shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage 1n a dealer in stolen property Hyper bargainer, dealer, monger, trader someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold 2v deal stolen goods 3Hyper have, receive get something; come into possession of 1v fight with sword-like foils Hypo|Hyper block, deflect, parry impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) contend, fight, struggle be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight 2v have an argument about something Syn|Hypo|Hyper argue, contend, debate stickle dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points) sparfight verbally bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabbleargue over petty things altercate, argufy, dispute, quarrel, scraphave a disagreement over something opposebe against; express opposition to brawl, wrangleto quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively spatengage in a brief and petty quarrel polemicise, polemicize, polemise, polemizeengage in a controversy fall outhave a breach in relations contend, contest, repugnto make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation converse, discourse carry on a conversation |
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