| 单词 | booth |
| 释义 | booth (once / 2220 pages) n A booth is a temporary table, tent, or area that you set up in order to sell something. You might have a cupcake booth at a school craft fair, for example. You might stop at an information booth in a tourist town, or or shop for records at a music booth in your local flea market. You can use the noun booth for any small, impermanent stall, kiosk, or stand. Another kind of booth is the cozy, private seating area at a restaurant that often has high walls and benches around a table. Booth has an Old Norse origin, the word buth, which is rooted in búa, or "dwell." WORD FAMILYbooth: booths USAGE EXAMPLES“Yes!” someone from the tech booth shouts back. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) “When we got to the intersection and then the fee booth, it was eerie. No tracks, no nothing.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 27, 2016) In college, this play might’ve been sent to the booth to determine if the rule calling for an automatic ejection should be enforced. Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1n a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment Hypo|Hyper sales booth, stall, stand a booth where articles are displayed for sale coffee stalla stand (usually movable) selling hot coffee and food (especially at night) newsstanda stall where newspapers and other periodicals are sold shop, store a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services 2n small area set off by walls for special use Syn|Hypo|Hyper cubicle, kiosk, stall confessional a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions polling bootha temporary booth in a polling place which people enter to cast their votes prompt box, prompter's boxa booth projecting above the floor in the front of a stage where the prompter sits; opens toward the performers on stage shower bath, shower stallbooth for washing yourself, usually in a bathroom call box, phone booth, telephone booth, telephone box, telephone kioskbooth for using a telephone tolbooth, tollbooth, tollhousea booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls voting bootha booth in which a person can cast a private vote closet a small private room for study or prayer 3n a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches Hyper table a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs Booth (once / 1913 pages) n WORD FAMILY Booth: Booths USAGE EXAMPLES“There was nothing unusual about our contact with him,” Booth said. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) Baird was "without a doubt the pioneer of television", according to Catherine Booth, science curator at the National Library of Scotland. BBC(Dec 21, 2016) The Wildcats again were without national championship game star Phil Booth. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) n United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865) Syn|Exp John Wilkes Booth actor, histrion, player, role player, thespian a theatrical performer assassin, assassinator, bravoa murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed |
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