| 单词 | picket |
| 释义 | picket (once / 836 pages) 1nv 2nv A picket is a vertical wooden board in a fence. You might have a white picket fence enclosing your whole front yard, so your little dog can't escape. Besides the "wooden stake or strip" meaning, you can also use picket as a verb to mean "protest or strike." When disgruntled workers go on strike, they often picket outside their workplace, holding signs and chanting. You can also call one of these protesting workers a picket. The original meaning, from the 1680s, is "a pointed stake used as a defensive weapon." And the original picket line was a line of military troops. WORD FAMILYpicket: picketed, picketing, pickets, picketted USAGE EXAMPLESThey met as student civil rights activists walking picket lines outside Woolworth’s in Flatbush. New York Times(Jan 12, 2012) “We’ve been picketing and protesting for much of the last year and here we are finally with a contract,” Khan said. Los Angeles Times(Dec 21, 2016) Dallas School District teachers hit the picket lines Nov. 14, 15 months after their last contract expired. Washington Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1 1n a wooden strip forming part of a fence Syn|Hyper pale strip thin piece of wood or metal 2n a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake Syn|Hyper piquet torture, torturing the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason 3v fasten with a picket 2picket the goat Hyper fasten, fix, secure cause to be firmly attached 1n a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack Hyper detachment a small unit of troops of special composition 2n a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event Syn|Hyper lookout, lookout man, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch security guard, watcher, watchman a guard who keeps watch 3n a vehicle performing sentinel duty Hypo|Hyper picket boat a boat serving as a picket picket shipa ship serving as a picket military vehicle vehicle used by the armed forces 4n a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work Hyper demonstrator, protester someone who participates in a public display of group feeling 5v serve as pickets or post pickets picket a business to protest the layoffs Hyper demonstrate, march march in protest; take part in a demonstration |
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