单词 | visit |
释义 | visit /viz"it/, v.t. 1. to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc.: to visit a friend; to visit clients; to visit Paris. 2. to stay with as a guest. 3. to come or go to: to visit a church for prayer. 4. to go to for the purpose of official inspection or examination: a general visiting his troops. 5. to come to in order to comfort or aid: to visit the sick. 6. to come upon; assail; afflict: The plague visited London in 1665. 7. to cause trouble, suffering, etc., to come to: to visit him with sorrows. 8. to access, as a Web site. 9. to inflict, as punishment, vengeance, etc. (often fol. by on or upon). v.i. 10. to make a visit. 11. to talk or chat casually: to visit on the phone with a friend. 12. to inflict punishment. n. 13. the act of or an instance of visiting: a nice, long visit. 14. a chat or talk: We had a good visit on the way back from the grocery store. 15. a call paid to a person, family, etc. 16. a stay or sojourn as a guest. 17. an official inspection or examination. 18. the act of an officer of a belligerent nation in boarding a vessel in order to ascertain the nature of its cargo, its nationality, etc.: the right of visit and search. [1175-1225; ME visiten (v.) ( < OF visiter) < L visitare, freq. of visere to go to see, itself freq. of videre to see] |
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