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

thousand

/ˈθaʊz(ə)nd

cardinal number (plural thousands or (with numeral or quantifying word) same) (a/one thousand)

1The number equivalent to the product of a hundred and ten; 1,000: a thousand metres two thousand acres thousands have been killed (Roman numeral: m, M) They were able to destroy a thousand acres of orange trees belonging to a settlement in a single night....

At least five thousand people died and thousands more were disabled permanently.
It will hold ten thousand people and host concerts, ice skating and sports facilities.

Synonyms

informal K, thou

rare chiliad

1.1 (thousands) The numbers from one thousand to 9,999: the cost of repairs could be in the thousands...

The number of animals slaughtered will run into thousands over the next few days.
It is not known how many were killed, but it is thought to have run into thousands.
Our best estimate is that it may number no more than the low hundreds, rather than thousands.

1.2 (usually thousands) informal An unspecified large number: you’ll meet thousands of girls before you find the one you like I have imagined it a thousand times...

It was beautiful and could have sold by the thousand if she had continued to make them.
On the internet we find thousands of sites dealing with just about every aspect of astrology.
It sounded as though a thousand suicides were howling in anguish in their eternal punishment.

Derivatives

thousandfold

/ˈθaʊz(ə)ndfəʊld

/ adjective & adverb ...

It went on dropping rapidly for the next half-century, until the mortality rate had declined more than a thousandfold.
We have magnified the power of our technologies a thousandfold.
The war did not solve Israel's problems, it multiplied them a thousandfold.

thousandth

/ˈθaʊz(ə)nθ

/ ordinal number ...

Low temperature physicists, who can now work at temperatures mere hundredths of thousandths of degrees away from absolute zero, have come a long way.
The bugs are only a few thousandths of a millimetre across and lack the cell walls which most bacteria have.
The nuclear industry accounts for less than a thousandth of radiation exposure; almost all of our exposure to radiation comes from natural sources.

Origin

Old English thūsend, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch duizend and German Tausend.

单词	thousand
释义	thousand /ˈθaʊz(ə)nd / cardinal number (plural thousands or (with numeral or quantifying word) same) (a/one thousand) 1The number equivalent to the product of a hundred and ten; 1,000: a thousand metres two thousand acres thousands have been killed (Roman numeral: m, M) They were able to destroy a thousand acres of orange trees belonging to a settlement in a single night.... At least five thousand people died and thousands more were disabled permanently. It will hold ten thousand people and host concerts, ice skating and sports facilities. Synonyms informal K, thou rare chiliad 1.1 (thousands) The numbers from one thousand to 9,999: the cost of repairs could be in the thousands... The number of animals slaughtered will run into thousands over the next few days. It is not known how many were killed, but it is thought to have run into thousands. Our best estimate is that it may number no more than the low hundreds, rather than thousands. 1.2 (usually thousands) informal An unspecified large number: you’ll meet thousands of girls before you find the one you like I have imagined it a thousand times... It was beautiful and could have sold by the thousand if she had continued to make them. On the internet we find thousands of sites dealing with just about every aspect of astrology. It sounded as though a thousand suicides were howling in anguish in their eternal punishment. Derivatives thousandfold /ˈθaʊz(ə)ndfəʊld / adjective & adverb ... It went on dropping rapidly for the next half-century, until the mortality rate had declined more than a thousandfold. We have magnified the power of our technologies a thousandfold. The war did not solve Israel's problems, it multiplied them a thousandfold. thousandth /ˈθaʊz(ə)nθ / ordinal number ... Low temperature physicists, who can now work at temperatures mere hundredths of thousandths of degrees away from absolute zero, have come a long way. The bugs are only a few thousandths of a millimetre across and lack the cell walls which most bacteria have. The nuclear industry accounts for less than a thousandth of radiation exposure; almost all of our exposure to radiation comes from natural sources. Origin Old English thūsend, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch duizend and German Tausend.
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