| 单词 | buck |
| 释义 | buck (once / 960 pages) 1n 2v 3v 4n 5n A buck is an adult male deer, antelope, reindeer, or rabbit. You can usually tell a buck by its large horns. If it’s a bunny, you just have to ask. A buck is also slang for an American dollar. Full-grown male kangaroos are bucks, too. When a male animal is a buck, the female is a doe. A buck is a male deer, and so a doe is a female deer. When it's used as a verb, buck means to move in an abrupt, jerky way — when a horse bucks, it jumps and kicks its back legs out behind it. If someone bucks the system, they’re pushing against it. Colloquially, "to buck up” means to cheer up. WORD FAMILYbuck: bucked, bucking, bucks USAGE EXAMPLES“I think with the state legislatures it’s just simply a matter of saving a few bucks,” said Kip Cassino, a media analyst at Borrell Associates. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) He bucked the 2016 trend of draft prospects bypassing a bowl game to protect their NFL futures for one last game with his teammates. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) Owners of the independent mountains say they’re trying to buck the consolidation trend by competing with personality. Seattle Times(Dec 25, 2016) 1 n mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope) 2Hypo|Hyper stag adult male deer royal, royal stagstag with antlers of 12 or more branches eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials 1v jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched the yung filly bucked Syn|Hyper hitch, jerk move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 2v move quickly and violently 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper charge, shoot, shoot down, tear dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot run or move very quickly or hastily rip move precipitously or violently belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it move fast 1v resist buck the trend Syn|Hyper go against oppose, react act against or in opposition to 2v to strive with determination 4John is bucking for a promotion Hyper endeavor, endeavour, strive attempt by employing effort n a piece of paper money worth one dollar 5Syn|Hyper clam, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill Federal Reserve note, bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, government note, greenback, note a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) 1n a framework for holding wood that is being sawed Syn|Hypo|Hyper horse, sawbuck, sawhorse trestle sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop framework a structure supporting or containing something 2n a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting Syn|Hyper long horse, vaulting horse gymnastic horse, horse a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs Buck (once / 1144 pages) n WORD FAMILY Buck: Bucks USAGE EXAMPLESBucks: Starting G Matthew Dellavedova missed his third consecutive game with a strained right hamstring. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Knicks: Host the Bucks on Wednesday night, with the back end of the home-and-home set at Milwaukee on Friday night. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) “It just kind of struck a nerve with me,” said Kevin Cooney, a voter from The Courier Times in Bucks County, Pa. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) n United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973) Syn|Exp Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck missionary, missioner someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country author, writerwrites (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) |
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