spear

Значение (Английский)

Noun

1. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
2. (historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
3. A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
4. An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
5. In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
6. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
7. The feather of a horse.
8. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
9. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.

Verb

1. (transitive) To pierce with a spear.
2. (broadly, transitive) To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
3. To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
4. (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
5. (especially, obsolete, transitive) To ignore as a social snub.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Male.
2. (not-comparable) Pertaining to male family members.

Синонимы

lance

javelin

pierce

stab

pike

dart

🎯

harpoon

weapon

poke

prick

shaft

sting

shoot

inject

fizgig

thrust

leister

impale

bayonet

sew

gore

gig

arrow

fork

fish spear

nail

border upon

fishgig

spit

spear up

sword

touch

sprout

staff

war

halberd

puncture

punch

👊

spike

forge

bore

flag

boat hook

awl

fish-fork

bite

drill

knife

🔪

dismiss

beg

Переводы

lance

Speer

lancia

lanza

lança

speer

javelot

Lanze

llança

Spieß

lans

mızrak

javelina

hasta

Произносится как (IPA)

/spɪə̯(ɹ)/

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: spere

Унаследовано от староанглийский: spere

Родственно западнофризский: spear

Родственно нидерландский: speer

Родственно немецкий: Speer

Родственно старонорвежский: spjǫr

Родственно средненидерландский: sparre

Родственно старонорвежский: sparri

Родственно латинский: sparus

Родственно албанский: ferrë

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: spyre

Унаследовано от староанглийский: spīr

In summary

From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”).