| 单词 | squat |
| 释义 | squat (once / 642 pages) vadjn If you crouch down very low and sit on your heels, you squat. If you have to talk to a small child, you might have to squat to talk face-to-face. The verb squat also means to illegally occupy a building — especially to live in it. If you own vacant property, you need to be careful that someone doesn't decide to squat in the empty house. As an adjective, squat describes someone who is very short and thick. In the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the dwarfs are depicted as squat little men. WORD FAMILYsquat: squatly, squatness, squats, squatted, squatter, squatting+/squatter: squatters/squatting: squattings USAGE EXAMPLESMen squat over indigo vats, dipping in T-shirt after T-shirt — some of them multiple times, to produce a darker, more intense shade. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Occupied as an artists squat starting in the 1980s, Les Frigos is today an emblematic artistic hub with coveted studios and exhibition space. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) After lunch he would do squats and push-ups, then return to the bunk until dinner. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1v sit on one's heels In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting Syn|Hyper crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up sit, sit down be seated 2v be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide The building squatted low Hyper be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 3v occupy (a dwelling) illegally Hyper lodge in, occupy, reside live (in a certain place) 4adj short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature a little church with a squat tower Syn chunky, dumpy, low-set, squatty, stumpy little, short low in stature; not tall 5adj having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground Syn underslung low literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension 6n the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels Syn|Hyper squatting motility, motion, move, movement a change of position that does not entail a change of location 7n exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles Syn|Hyper knee bend, squatting leg exercise exercise designed to strengthen the leg muscles 8n a small worthless amount Syn|Hyper diddley, diddly, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude |
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