sire

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Animalssiresire1 /saɪə $ saɪr/ noun 1 old usePGOTALK TO somebody used when speaking to a king The people await you, sire.2 [countable usually singular]HBA the father of a four-legged animal, especially a horseExamples from the Corpussire• But Rahy has made a bigger impact as a sire.• Torrey was also a very good sire, producing many excellent offspring.• On his sword was the rune of Khaine, a reference to the blade wielded by his mighty sire Aenarion.• This was achieved by three potent sires.• Its main role is as a terminal sire for suckler herds or as a beef sire for dairy herds.• The sire is one of the country's top Thoroughbred stallions and his sire was the great Nijinsky. siresire2 verb [transitive] 1 TAto be the father of an animal, especially a horse or dog a stallion that has sired several race winners2 old-fashionedSEX/HAVE SEX WITH to be the father of a child Sam sired eight children.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpussire• In many societies the father has no special responsibility to support the specific children he sires.• He went on to sire a dozen children, and they all grew up to be musically talented as well.• Augustine kept a mistress and sired a son out of wedlock.• By the time he was twenty Rasputin had married a local girl and before long had sired four children.• Impressionism begat post-impressionism, which begat cubism, which sired futurism, expressionism and all manner of errant abstractions.• He's very old, and has sired nineteen sons on various women.• Stallions who run well on off-tracks tend to sire offspring that do the same.• The stallion has sired several race winners.Origin sire1 (1100-1200) Old French Latin senior “older”

单词	sire
释义	sire From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Animalssiresire1 /saɪə $ saɪr/ noun 1 old usePGOTALK TO somebody used when speaking to a king The people await you, sire.2 [countable usually singular]HBA the father of a four-legged animal, especially a horseExamples from the Corpussire• But Rahy has made a bigger impact as a sire.• Torrey was also a very good sire, producing many excellent offspring.• On his sword was the rune of Khaine, a reference to the blade wielded by his mighty sire Aenarion.• This was achieved by three potent sires.• Its main role is as a terminal sire for suckler herds or as a beef sire for dairy herds.• The sire is one of the country's top Thoroughbred stallions and his sire was the great Nijinsky. siresire2 verb [transitive] 1 TAto be the father of an animal, especially a horse or dog a stallion that has sired several race winners2 old-fashionedSEX/HAVE SEX WITH to be the father of a child Sam sired eight children.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpussire• In many societies the father has no special responsibility to support the specific children he sires.• He went on to sire a dozen children, and they all grew up to be musically talented as well.• Augustine kept a mistress and sired a son out of wedlock.• By the time he was twenty Rasputin had married a local girl and before long had sired four children.• Impressionism begat post-impressionism, which begat cubism, which sired futurism, expressionism and all manner of errant abstractions.• He's very old, and has sired nineteen sons on various women.• Stallions who run well on off-tracks tend to sire offspring that do the same.• The stallion has sired several race winners.Origin sire1 (1100-1200) Old French Latin senior “older”
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