| 单词 | spade |
| 释义 | spade (once / 838 pages) 1nv 2n If you're a gardener, you know that a spade is a small shovel with a short handle. A spade is perfect for planting bulbs and digging up weeds. In addition to a small digging tool, a spade is also a suit of playing card — the black one that looks a bit like an upside-down heart. There's even a card game called "Spades" in which a spade has a higher value than any other suit. The two meanings have different roots; the card suit spade comes from the Greek spathe, and the little shovel kind of spade has Proto-Germanic roots that mean "flat piece of wood." WORD FAMILYspade: spade-like, spaded, spadeful, spades, spading+/spadeful: spadefuls USAGE EXAMPLESThat may feel right and there’s nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Salon(Nov 27, 2016) Castro has the Cuban moralistic streak in spades, showing no apparent affection for money or soft living. Time(Nov 26, 2016) Everything from tractors and quad bikes to spades and pitchforks went under the hammer this week. BBC(Nov 25, 2016) 1 1n a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot Hypo|Hyper ditch spade, long-handled spade a spade with a long handle for digging narrow ditches garden spadea spade used by gardeners hand shovel a shovel that is operated by hand 2v dig (up) with a spade 2I spade compost into the flower beds Hypo|Hyper ridge spade into alternate ridges and troughs cut into, delve, dig, turn over turn up, loosen, or remove earth 1n a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it she led a low spade spades were trumps Hyper playing card one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games 2n (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person Hyper Black, Black person, Negro, Negroid, blackamoor a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) |
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