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

单词	shop
释义	shop I. \ˈshäp\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English shoppe, from Old English sceoppa booth; akin to Middle Dutch schoppe booth, Old High German scopf shed, Old English scypen, scepen, scipen cowshed, and probably to Old English scēaf sheaf — more at sheaf 1. a. : a handicraft establishment : atelier, studio < three shops exclusively devoted to the hand-hammering of gold leaf — American Guide Series: New Jersey > b. : a team of glassworkers usually consisting of a gatherer, blower, and servitor : chair < one … shop of men worked at each glory hole — Freda Diamond > 2. a. : a building or room stocked with merchandise for sale : store < the shops offer plenty of food and consumers' goods — Drew Middleton > b. or shoppe \“\ (1) : a small retail establishment or a department in a large one offering a specified line of goods or services < gift shop > < sport shop > < beauty shop > (2) : a small retail establishment concentrating on exclusive or top quality merchandise : a specialty shop c. : something that resembles a shop < Paris University was the great thinking-shop, the main European market of theologico-philosophical ideas — G.G.Coulton > d. (1) : a center of operations < sets up shop on the tailboard of a station wagon — J.S.Redding > < set up shop in the area … and handled over half a million refugees before the exodus was stopped — New Yorker > (2) : functional activity < sets up shop as the local commissar — Time > < the city shuts up shop for a week — Ray Duncan > e. : a source of supply < he's come to the wrong shop for that — Charles Dickens > 3. a. : a commercial establishment for the making or repairing of goods or machinery < blacksmith's shop > < machine shop > < casting shops and rolling mills — American Guide Series: Connecticut > < at the San Francisco yard … one steel shop covers almost five acres — All Hands > b. obsolete : something that resembles a workshop < the liver … the shop and source of the blood — James Howell > c. : a home workshop < spends every spare minute in his shop making model airplanes > d. (1) : a laboratory in an elementary or secondary school equipped for instruction in manual arts < the general shop may provide facilities for work in metals, electricity, and transportation — L.V.Newkirk > (2) : the art or science of working with tools and machinery < there will be one exception, perhaps … one boy out of twenty who does badly in English and well in shop — C.D.Green > < made bookends for his mother as a project in shop > 4. a. : a business establishment : place of employment < print shop > especially : office < it had been a battle to get them into the shop and behind their typewriters or drawing boards before 9:30 — Advertising Age > — compare union shop b. : a gathering place : center of activity < farmers filled the front of the shop, leaning against the bar — Sigerson Clifford > c. : job; especially : a theatrical engagement < now she would be out of a shop all through the autumn — Leonard Merrick > d. : shoptalk < safety-conscious young men who could talk intelligent shop with any engineer in Detroit — Time > < summarized a good deal of dead musical shop in smaller type — New Statesman & Nation > < talk golf-shop in season and out of season — Andrew Lang > II. verb (shopped ; shopped ; shopping ; shops) *transitive verb* 1. dialect a. : arrest, imprison b. : to inform on : betray < she had shopped him to the police — Manchester Guardian Weekly > 2. archaic : to take to market : put on sale 3. a. (1) : to look over (available goods or services) with an eye to purchase < shop our quality collection of … mink capes — advt > (2) : to examine the stock of < get back in time to shop the curio stores along the bay front — Holiday > (3) : buy < shop me a couple of those little … figurines — Lawrence Durrell > b. : to scan (as a newspaper) for information about available goods or services < make a habit of shopping the catalogs — F.F.Rockwell > 4. : to send to a repair shop < shop a railroad car for periodic maintenance > *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to examine goods and services with intent to buy < shop for groceries > < shop for clothes > — compare window-shop b. : to probe a market in search of the best buy < exhibitors were kept busy … booking orders, despite the tendency to shop on opening day — Women's Wear Daily > — usually used with around < after you've decided on a brand, shop around — there is more than one dealer for each make of car — Motor Trend > c. : to look something over < went to his gage panel and shopped over it with his eyes — Joseph Whitehill > 2. : to make a search : hunt < two very similar parties each shopping for winning ideas — F.L.Allen > — often used with around < students … shopping around for something consoling to believe — Sidney Hook > III. transitive verb : to offer for sale — often used with around < shopping the manuscript around to the smaller publishers >
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