| 单词 | racket |
| 释义 | racket (once / 1264 pages) 1nv 2nv 3n If you're carrying a racket and wearing a sporty visor, people will guess that you're on your way to play tennis. A racket has a handle and a rounded frame laced with strings, and it's used to hit a ball. A racket is used to play tennis, badminton, or squash, and it can also be spelled racquet. Another definition of racket is an unpleasantly loud noise; if your neighbors were playing horrible, loud music, you could yell out the window, "Stop that racket!" Informally, the word racket also means "illegal scheme," especially for making money. The French word requette means "palm of the hand," and racquet originally referred to a tennis-like game played by hitting a ball with the hand. WORD FAMILYracket: racketed, racketeer, racketing, rackets, racketted, racketting, rackety+/racketeer: racketeered, racketeering, racketeers/rackety: racketiness USAGE EXAMPLESBut a game ended on Cousins’s racket again, and he didn’t finish off the moment. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Militants ran protection rackets, and local government corruption was rampant. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) It will likely increasingly fall back on other methods like kidnapping for ransom and running protection rackets, the officials said. Seattle Times(Dec 08, 2016) 1 1n a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games Syn|Hypo|Hyper racquet badminton racket, badminton racquet, battledore a light long-handled racket used by badminton players crossea long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse bat, squash racket, squash racqueta small racket with a long handle used for playing squash tennis racket, tennis racqueta racket used to play tennis sports implement an implement used in a sport 2v hit (a ball) with a racket 2Hyper hit cause to move by striking 1n a loud and disturbing noise Hyper noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) 2n the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience Syn|Hyper dissonance, noise auditory sensation, sound the subjective sensation of hearing something 3v make loud and annoying noises Hyper make noise, noise, resound emit a noise 4v celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopie, revel, wassail, whoop it up carouse, riot, roister engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking celebrate, fete have a celebration n an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit Syn|Hyper fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise endeavor, endeavour, enterprise a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) |
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