英语词汇“abattoir”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

An abattoir is a slaughterhouse, or a place where animals are killed. It's not a word you're likely to hear or use unless you're involved in these activities.

However, break abattoir into its component parts, abate + -ory, and things get a lot more interesting. -Ory is simple: it means "a place for," as in factory, laboratory, and even auditorium. Abate is more complex. Today it means "to lessen," but back when it came to English via the Old French abattre, it meant "to beat down," a meaning Old French had inherited from the Latin ad ("to") + battere ("beat"). So when you think of abattoir, you can think of the idea of "a beating," or an animal's life "abating" until it is gone.

TASTY MORSELS

Vocabulary Shout-Out: Henry Alford for "Abattoir"

In "How I Became a Hipster," a New York Times account of a long weekend embedded "among the rooftop gardeners and the sustainability consultants and the chickeneers" of Brooklyn, humorist Henry Alford slips abattoir into conversation in an effort to pass as a local.

I signed up for a three-hour, $69 class called Knife Skills, taught at 3rd Ward, a continuing-education center in Bushwick that is heavy on classes like chicken raising and rooftop gardening and cardboard furniture-making. . . . After class, another 3rd Ward student asked me how the class went, so I told her “Well” and then added, “I’m thinking about turning my spare guest room into an abattoir.” She looked impressed.

Learn more about abattoir by checking out its definition page in the Vocabulary.com Dictionary, where you can learn how abattoir's history links it to abate, laboratory, auditorium, and even shambles, which used to be commonly understood to mean the same thing.

WORD FAMILY

abattoir: abattoirs

USAGE EXAMPLES

The result is as funny as a Muppet abattoir — or as sad.

New York Times(Dec 01, 2016)

She escapes the operating theatre and makes it to what can only be described as an abattoir for hosts.

The Guardian(Oct 10, 2016)

Video surveillance in abattoirs is among measures proposed by a French parliamentary inquiry into slaughterhouse conditions.

BBC(Sep 20, 2016)

n a building where animals are butchered

Syn|Hyper

butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse

building, edifice

a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

单词	abattoir
释义	abattoir (once / 42824 pages) n An abattoir is a slaughterhouse, or a place where animals are killed. It's not a word you're likely to hear or use unless you're involved in these activities. However, break abattoir into its component parts, abate + -ory, and things get a lot more interesting. -Ory is simple: it means "a place for," as in factory, laboratory, and even auditorium. Abate is more complex. Today it means "to lessen," but back when it came to English via the Old French abattre, it meant "to beat down," a meaning Old French had inherited from the Latin ad ("to") + battere ("beat"). So when you think of abattoir, you can think of the idea of "a beating," or an animal's life "abating" until it is gone. TASTY MORSELS Vocabulary Shout-Out: Henry Alford for "Abattoir" In "How I Became a Hipster," a New York Times account of a long weekend embedded "among the rooftop gardeners and the sustainability consultants and the chickeneers" of Brooklyn, humorist Henry Alford slips abattoir into conversation in an effort to pass as a local. I signed up for a three-hour, $69 class called Knife Skills, taught at 3rd Ward, a continuing-education center in Bushwick that is heavy on classes like chicken raising and rooftop gardening and cardboard furniture-making. . . . After class, another 3rd Ward student asked me how the class went, so I told her “Well” and then added, “I’m thinking about turning my spare guest room into an abattoir.” She looked impressed. Learn more about abattoir by checking out its definition page in the Vocabulary.com Dictionary, where you can learn how abattoir's history links it to abate, laboratory, auditorium, and even shambles, which used to be commonly understood to mean the same thing. WORD FAMILY abattoir: abattoirs USAGE EXAMPLES The result is as funny as a Muppet abattoir — or as sad. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) She escapes the operating theatre and makes it to what can only be described as an abattoir for hosts. The Guardian(Oct 10, 2016) Video surveillance in abattoirs is among measures proposed by a French parliamentary inquiry into slaughterhouse conditions. BBC(Sep 20, 2016) n a building where animals are butchered Syn\|Hyper butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse building, edifice a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
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