英语词汇“slave ants”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

slave ants

释义

slave /slāv/

noun

A person kept as property, usu made to work as a servant
A person who is submissive under domination
A person who is submissively devoted to another
A person whose will has lost power of resistance, esp to an influence, drug, etc
A person who works extremely hard, as if in bondage, a drudge
A mechanism controlled by another mechanism, eg in computing, by the central processor, or by remote control
A master-slave manipulator (qv under master)

intransitive verb

To work like or as a slave
To drudge

transitive verb

To enslave
To treat as a slave
Perh make subservient to one's own views (Shakespeare, King Lear IV.1.69)

ORIGIN: OFr (Fr) esclave, orig a Slav

slāvˈer noun

A slave-trader
A ship employed in the slave trade

slāvˈery noun

The state of being a slave or enslaved
The institution of ownership of slaves
Drudgery

slāvˈey noun (informal)

A domestic drudge, a maid of all work

slāvˈish adjective

Of or belonging to slaves
Befitting a slave
Servile
Abject
Servilely following or conforming (eg to fashion)
Unoriginal
Laborious

slāvˈishly adverb

slāvˈishness noun

slāvocˈracy noun (esp US historical)

Slave-owners collectively
Their power, interests, etc

slāvˈocrat noun

slave ant noun

An ant captured and kept as a worker in a community of another species

slaveˈ-driver noun

A person who superintends slaves at their work
A hard taskmaster (figurative)

slaveˈ-fork noun

A long and heavy forked branch fixed on the neck of a slave to prevent escape

slaveˈholder noun

An owner of slaves

slaveˈholding noun

slaveˈ-hunt noun

A hunt after runaway slaves or after people to enslave

slave labour noun

(the work of) people employed as slaves (lit and figurative)

slave ship noun

A ship used for transporting slaves

slave states plural noun

Those states of the American Union which maintained domestic slavery before the Civil War, namely Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee

slave trade or slave traffic noun

The buying and selling of slaves

slaveˈ-trader or slave-traffˈicker noun

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