| 单词 | to give checkmate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give checkmate a. This exclamation taken as a name for itself, and for the move which puts the King into inextricable check. to give checkmate: to make or effect this conclusive move. (Also mate adj.2) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > a check or rebuff > complete check or impasse checkmatec1440 blank1542 nonplus1582 noncome1600 choke1674 dead lock1781 impasse1851 no go1870 standoff1876 gridlock1981 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > check or checkmate matec1330 mating?a1400 checkc1426 checkmatec1440 scholar's mate1614 fool's mate1618 scholar's check1674 perpetual check1750 smothered mate1804 sui-mate1846 selfmate1848 perpetual1966 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [verb (intransitive)] > mate to give checkmate1562 c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 21 After chec fore þe roke, ware fore þe mate.] c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) i. xxi. 71 When he takith [no] kepe of God, and hathe no meyne, than is hit to þe man chekmate. 1562 tr. Damiano da Odemira Pleasaunt Playe of Cheasts sig. Cvj If his Bishoppe take thyne, thou shalt geue checke and mate, setting thy Queene in the fourth house of his Kings Bishoppe. 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 77 I did se..a Parate, geue one of their gentle women, a checke mate a Chesse. 1656 F. Beale tr. G. Greco Royall Game Chesse-play 11 The maine designe of the game..is as suddenly as can be to give check mate. ?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 42 When a checkmate is obtained, the game is at an end. ?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 45 The player who effects checkmate wins the game. 1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (ed. 2) x. v. 362 Bright ideas about checkmates occur only to persons who have studied chess. < as lemmas |
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