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单词 kiosk
释义
kioskki‧osk /ˈkiːɒsk $ -ɑːsk/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINkiosk
Origin:
1800-1900 French kiosque, from Turkish kösk ‘small bulding for sitting in’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • There must be a kiosk selling phone cards around here somewhere.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatordifferent types of shop
also grocery store American a large shop that sells a wide range of things, especially food, cleaning materials, and other things that people buy regularly: · Can you get pine nuts in the grocery store?· There are plans to open a new supermarket next year.
especially American a shop in your local area that sells food, alcohol, magazines etc and is often open 24 hours a day: · Believe me, if his father wasn't so rich, that guy would be working in a convenience store.
British /corner store American a small local shop, usually on the corner of a street, that sells food, newspapers, cigarettes etc: · The corner shop's started selling sandwiches now, and I'd rather go there than the supermarket.· His parents ran a little corner store in the Castro in San Francisco.
also baker's British a shop that sells bread and cakes, especially one that also makes the bread and cakes: · She runs a French bakery in North London.
British /butcher shop American a shop that sells meat: · Many small independent butchers are closing down.
also deli informal a shop, or part of a larger shop, that sells high quality food such as cheeses and cold meats, often from different countries: · There's an Italian deli here and their homemade ravioli is delicious.deli counter (=the part in a large shop where high-quality cheese, cold meat etc is sold): · I had to wait for fifteen minutes at the deli counter this morning.
British also offie informal, also liquor store American a shop that sells beer, wine, and other alcoholic drinks that you drink at home
also chemist's British /drugstore American a shop that sells medicines, beauty and baby products etc
especially American a shop or part of a shop where medicines are made and sold
also hardware shop British a shop that sells equipment and tools that you can use in your home or garden
British a shop that sells newspapers and magazines, cigarettes, chocolates etc: · Ruth waited for him outside the newsagent's.
a small structure on a street, that sells newspapers and magazines: · He bought a paper at a newstand near the entrance to the park.
a very small shop on a street, that has an open window where you can buy newspapers, cigarettes, chocolate etc: · There must be a kiosk selling phone cards around here somewhere.
especially British /stand American a table, especially in a market, where goods are placed: · Justin used to mind the stall while his father was in the cafe, drinking.· I bought a few trinkets at the souvenir stand.market stall: · The trouble is, you can't really try the clothes on at a market stall.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Dexter parked the car next to the first telephone kiosk they chanced across on the way back to Reading.· Maybe she should be flattened by a telephone kiosk on a wavering winch.· A fire was also started in a nearby telephone kiosk.· She spotted a telephone kiosk, and stopped to look in the telephone directory.· Phone cash goes Thieves broke into a cash box in a telephone kiosk at Braintree railway station and stole about £300.
1a small building in the street, where newspapers, sweets etc are sold2British English old-fashioned a public telephone box
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