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单词 king
释义 king
 —kingless,  adj.   —kinglessness,  n.   —kinglike,  adj.  
 /king/,  n.  
  1. a male sovereign or monarch; a man who holds by life tenure, and usually by hereditary right, the chief authority over a country and people.
  2. (cap.) God or Christ.
  3. a person or thing preeminent in its class: a king of actors.
  4. a playing card bearing a picture of a king.
  5.  Chess.   the chief piece of each color, whose checkmating is the object of the game; moved one square at a time in any direction.
  6.  Checkers.   a piece that has been moved entirely across the board and has been crowned, thus allowing it to be moved in any direction.
  7.  Entomol.   a fertile male termite.
  8. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter K.
  v.t.  
  9. to make a king of; cause to be or become a king; crown.
  10.  Informal.   to design or make (a product) king-size: The tobacco company is going to king its cigarettes.
  v.i.  
  11. to reign as king.
  12. king it, to play the king; behave in an imperious or pretentious manner: He kinged it over all the other kids on the block.
  adj.  
  13.  Informal.   king-size.
 [bef. 900; ME; OE cyng, cyni(n)g; c. G König, D koning, ON konungr, Sw konung, Dan konge. See KIN, -ING3]
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