单词 | stark |
释义 | Word Frequency stark(stɑːk) adjective 1. (usually prenominal) devoid of any elaboration; blunt the stark facts 2. grim; desolate a stark landscape 3. (usually prenominal) utter; absolute stark folly 4. archaic severe; violent 5. archaic or poetic rigid, as in death (esp in the phrase stiff and stark) 6. short for stark-naked adverb 7. completely stark mad stark dead Derived forms starkly (ˈstarkly) adverb starkness (ˈstarkness) noun Word origin Old English stearc stiff; related to Old Norse sterkr, Gothic gastaurknan to stiffenWord Frequency Starknoun 1. (stɑːk) Dame Freya (Madeline) (ˈfreɪə). 1893–1993, British traveller and writer, whose many books include The Southern Gates of Arabia (1936), Beyond Euphrates (1951), and The Journey's Echo (1963) 2. (German ʃtark) Johannes (joˈhanəs). 1874–1957, German physicist, who discovered the splitting of the lines of a spectrum when the source of light is subjected to a strong electrostatic field (Stark effect, 1913): Nobel prize for physics 1919 |
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