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

sire

/sʌɪə

noun

1The male parent of an animal, especially a stallion or bull kept for breeding: the sire is one of the country’s top thoroughbred stallions...

Four Brahman and four Angus sires were rotated among breeding pastures in both forage systems each year.
Sequencing was done on eight bull sires of Norwegian dairy cattle using Dye Terminator chemistry.
Second-generation hybrids were generated from four parental animals: two sires and two dams.

2 archaic A respectful form of address for someone of high social status, especially a king.We honestly did not know we had trespassed on your lands, sire.

2.1A father or other male forebear.I never really knew my father, while the rest admired their noble sires.

verb [with object]

1Be the male parent of (an animal): Castor twice sired two champions in a litter...

We conclude that the chicks were sired by extrapair males.
He never showed much interest in the number of departmental female elephants around and never sired a calf.
The heifer calves were from crossbred cows sired by Eimousin bulls.

1.1 literary (Of a person) be the father of: his father had just that measure of talent which so often sires a genius...

I have sired no offspring, created no universes, I cannot walk through walls and I've never been killed at Easter.
There will always be plenty of babies sired by dominant men.
About 40 percent of the babies were sired by someone other than the mother's mate.

Origin

Middle English (in sense 2 of the noun): from Old French, from an alteration of Latin senior (see senior). sense 1 of the noun dates from the early 16th century.

单词	sire
释义	sire /sʌɪə / noun 1The male parent of an animal, especially a stallion or bull kept for breeding: the sire is one of the country’s top thoroughbred stallions... Four Brahman and four Angus sires were rotated among breeding pastures in both forage systems each year. Sequencing was done on eight bull sires of Norwegian dairy cattle using Dye Terminator chemistry. Second-generation hybrids were generated from four parental animals: two sires and two dams. 2 archaic A respectful form of address for someone of high social status, especially a king.We honestly did not know we had trespassed on your lands, sire. 2.1A father or other male forebear.I never really knew my father, while the rest admired their noble sires. verb [with object] 1Be the male parent of (an animal): Castor twice sired two champions in a litter... We conclude that the chicks were sired by extrapair males. He never showed much interest in the number of departmental female elephants around and never sired a calf. The heifer calves were from crossbred cows sired by Eimousin bulls. 1.1 literary (Of a person) be the father of: his father had just that measure of talent which so often sires a genius... I have sired no offspring, created no universes, I cannot walk through walls and I've never been killed at Easter. There will always be plenty of babies sired by dominant men. About 40 percent of the babies were sired by someone other than the mother's mate. Origin Middle English (in sense 2 of the noun): from Old French, from an alteration of Latin senior (see senior). sense 1 of the noun dates from the early 16th century. Rhymes acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah
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