| 释义 |
gang
I. \ˈgaŋ, ˈgaiŋ\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German gang act of going, Old Norse gangr act of going, Gothic gang street, Greek kochōnē perineum, Sanskrit jaṅghā shank
1. : the act, manner, or means of going : passage, course, journey; also : gait
2.
a. dialect chiefly Britain
(1) : passage, way, road, lane
(2) : a pasturage for cattle
b. chiefly Scotland : journey; especially : one undertaken to perform an errand
c. chiefly Scotland : the amount (as of wood, water, or peat) that can be carried at one time or in one trip
3.
a.
(1) : a set or full complement of articles : outfit
< a gang of oars >
(2) : a combination of similar implements or other items arranged so as to act together to save time or labor
< a gang of saws >
or to produce in one operation or as one unit
< a gang of printing plates printing several jobs on a single sheet >
b. : a number of individuals making up a group: as
(1) : a group of persons working under the same direction or at the same task
< migrants … laboring in gangs in the woods, mines, and fields — American Guide Series: Washington >
< gangs of expert bottomers — B.H.Sprague >
(2) : a company of criminals
< a gang of desperate banditti — Tobias Smollett >
< squealed on the other members of the gang >
(3) : an elementary and close-knit social group of spontaneous origin; especially : such a unit composed of antisocial adolescents
< teenage gangs >
(4) : a group of persons acting in accord who are believed to engage in improper acts or to be influenced by self-seeking, corrupt, or unworthy motives
< made captive by the gang which seized power — A.H.Sulzberger >
< denounced the musical gang then in power — Virgil Thomson >
< a political gang … dragged out the racial issue to divert attention from itself — Oscar Handlin >
(5) : a group of congenial persons having close and informal social relations : a group of persons drawn together by a community of tastes, interests, or activity
< one of a gang that call one another great — O.W.Holmes †1935 >
< invite the gang plus some pretty girls — Dorothy Bradbury >
< where's the gang going tonight >
< the gang in the office >
(6) : a flock or herd of animals
< a gang of little chickens — J.H.Stuart >
< a gang of elk >
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
1. : to attack (a person) as a gang
< young hoodlums … always gang you — W.R.Burnett >
< try to gang him and take it away from him — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union >
2.
a. : to assemble or operate (mechanical or electronic parts) simultaneously as a group
< circuits ganged together by gears >
b. : to arrange in or produce as a gang (as type pages or printed sheets) — often used with up
intransitive verb
: to form a group or gang : keep company : go, travel
< empty-headed, idle-handed widows who gang together — Henry Miller >
< gangs with those kids on the next block >
— often used with up
< the boys would gang up around the corner drugstore >
III. intransitive verb
Etymology: Middle English gangen to go, walk, from Old English gangan; akin to Old High German gangan to go, Old Norse ganga, Gothic gaggan to go, Old English gang act of going
Scotland : go
IV.
variant of gangue |