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单词 scot-
释义

Scot.

abbrev
  1. Scotland
  2. Scottish

scot /skot/

noun (historical)
  1. A payment, esp a customary tax
  2. A share of a reckoning (also shot)
ORIGIN: OE scot, sceot; but prob partly from ON skot, and OFr esco; see shot1, escot

scot and lot noun

  1. An old local tax entitling all who paid to vote in parliamentary elections
  2. An old legal term embracing all forms of tax
  3. Hence, all forms of responsibility, duty, etc

scot-freeˈ adjective and adverb

  1. Free from scot, untaxed (historical)
  2. Entirely free from expense, injury, penalty, punishment, etc

Scot /skot/

noun
  1. A native or inhabitant of Scotland
  2. A member of a Gaelic-speaking people of Ireland, afterwards also in Argyllshire (historical)
ORIGIN: OE Scottas (pl), from LL Scottus and Scōtus; see also Scotch, Scots, Scottish

Scotland /skotˈlənd/ noun

  1. The country forming the northern member of the United Kingdom
  2. Ireland (historical)

Scotˈlandite noun

Naturally-occurring lead sulphite, first identified in Lanarkshire, Scotland

Scottˈy or Scottˈie noun

  1. A nickname for a Scotsman
  2. A Scotch terrier

Scotland Yard noun

  1. The earliest or (New Scotland Yard) two more recent headquarters (1890 and 1967) of the Metropolitan Police
  2. Hence, the London Criminal Investigation Department

Irish Scot (obsolete)

A Highlander

scoto- /skot-ō-, -ə-, -o-/ or (before a vowel) scot- /skot-/

combining form

Denoting dark, darkness

ORIGIN: Gr skotos darkness

scotodinia /-dinˈi-ə/ noun

(Gr dīnos whirling) dizziness with headache and impairment of vision

scotoma /-ōmˈə/ noun (pl scotōˈmata or scotōˈmas) (Gr skotōma dizziness; medicine)

An area of abnormal or absent vision within the visual field, a blind spot due to disease of the retina or optic nerve

scotōˈmatous adjective

scotoˈmeter noun

An instrument for identifying defects in the visual field

scotōˈmia and scotˈomy noun (obsolete)

Scotoma, in its obsolete sense of dizziness accompanied by dimness of vision

scotōpˈia noun

Vision in dim light

scotopic /-opˈ/ adjective

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