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earth [ɚθ]
n. 地球, 泥土, 世界, 尘世
vt. 埋入土中, 赶入洞内
vi. 躲入洞内
[化] 泥土; 地; 地球; 接地
[医] 土, 土地
- The earth in the garden is good, soft soil.
花园里的泥土松软肥沃。 - The moon goes round the earth.
月亮绕着地球转。 - The police eventually ran him to earth in Paris.
警察穷追不舍，终於在巴黎找到了他。
earth
[ noun ]
- the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
- the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell)
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
- the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
- a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
<noun.object>
the Earth moves around the sun
he sailed around the world
<noun.substance>
they dug into the earth outside the church
<noun.object>
the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land
the earth shook for several minutes
he dropped the logs on the ground
<noun.location>
it was hell on earth
<noun.substance>
<noun.cognition>
they consider the church to be independent of the world
<noun.artifact>
- hide in the earth like a hunted animal
- connect to the earth
<verb.perception>
<verb.contact>
earth the circuit
Earth \Earth\ ([~e]rth), n. [AS. eor[eth]e; akin to OS. ertha,
OFries. irthe, D. aarde, OHG. erda, G. erde, Icel.
j["o]r[eth], Sw. & Dan. jord, Goth. a[=i]r[thorn]a, OHG. ero,
Gr. ?, adv., to earth, and perh. to E. ear to plow.]
1. The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in
distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world
as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the
dwelling place of spirits.
That law preserves the earth a sphere
And guides the planets in their course. --S. Rogers.
In heaven, or earth, or under earth, in hell.
--Milton.
2. The solid materials which make up the globe, in
distinction from the air or water; the dry land.
God called the dry land earth. --Gen. i. 10.
He is pure air and fire, and the dull elements of
earth and water never appear in him. --Shak.
3. The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface
of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of
all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like;
sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the
visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth;
rich earth.
Give him a little earth for charity. --Shak.
4. A part of this globe; a region; a country; land.
Would I had never trod this English earth. --Shak.
5. Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the
pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.
Our weary souls by earth beguiled. --Keble.
6. The people on the globe.
The whole earth was of one language. --Gen. xi. 1.
7. (Chem.)
(a) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina,
glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.
(b) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as
lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.
8. A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as,
the earth of a fox. --Macaulay.
They [ferrets] course the poor conies out of their
earths. --Holland.
9. (Elec.) The connection of any part an electric conductor
with the ground; specif., the connection of a telegraph
line with the ground through a fault or otherwise.
Note: When the resistance of the earth connection is low it
is termed a good earth.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Note: Earth is used either adjectively or in combination to
form compound words; as, earth apple or earth-apple;
earth metal or earth-metal; earth closet or
earth-closet.
{Adamic earth}, {Bitter earth}, {Bog earth}, {Chian earth},
etc. See under {Adamic}, {Bitter}, etc.
{Alkaline earths}. See under {Alkaline}.
{Earth apple}. (Bot.)
(a) A potato.
(b) A cucumber.
{Earth auger}, a form of auger for boring into the ground; --
called also {earth borer}.
{Earth bath}, a bath taken by immersing the naked body in
earth for healing purposes.
{Earth battery} (Physics), a voltaic battery the elements of
which are buried in the earth to be acted on by its
moisture.
{Earth chestnut}, the pignut.
{Earth closet}, a privy or commode provided with dry earth or
a similar substance for covering and deodorizing the
f[ae]cal discharges.
{Earth dog} (Zo["o]l.), a dog that will dig in the earth, or
enter holes of foxes, etc.
{Earth hog}, {Earth pig} (Zo["o]l.), the aard-vark.
{Earth hunger}, an intense desire to own land, or, in the
case of nations, to extend their domain.
{Earth light} (Astron.), the light reflected by the earth, as
upon the moon, and corresponding to moonlight; -- called
also {earth shine}. --Sir J. Herschel.
{Earth metal}. See 1st {Earth}, 7. (Chem.)
{Earth oil}, petroleum.
{Earth pillars} or {Earth pyramids} (Geol.), high pillars or
pyramids of earth, sometimes capped with a single stone,
found in Switzerland. --Lyell.
{Earth pitch} (Min.), mineral tar, a kind of asphaltum.
{Earth quadrant}, a fourth of the earth's circumference.
{Earth table} (Arch.), the lowest course of stones visible in
a building; the ground table.
{On earth}, an intensive expression, oftenest used in
questions and exclamations; as, What on earth shall I do?
Nothing on earth will satisfy him. [Colloq.]
Earth \Earth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Earthed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Earthing}.]
1. To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a
burrow or den. ``The fox is earthed.'' --Dryden.
2. To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; --
sometimes with up.
The miser earths his treasure, and the thief,
Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon.
--Young.
Why this in earthing up a carcass? --R. Blair.
Earth \Earth\, v. i.
To burrow. --Tickell.
Earth \Earth\, n. [From {Ear} to plow.]
A plowing. [Obs.]
Such land as ye break up for barley to sow,
Two earths at the least, ere ye sow it, bestow.
--Tusser.
OFries. irthe, D. aarde, OHG. erda, G. erde, Icel.
j["o]r[eth], Sw. & Dan. jord, Goth. a[=i]r[thorn]a, OHG. ero,
Gr. ?, adv., to earth, and perh. to E. ear to plow.]
1. The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in
distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world
as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the
dwelling place of spirits.
That law preserves the earth a sphere
And guides the planets in their course. --S. Rogers.
In heaven, or earth, or under earth, in hell.
--Milton.
2. The solid materials which make up the globe, in
distinction from the air or water; the dry land.
God called the dry land earth. --Gen. i. 10.
He is pure air and fire, and the dull elements of
earth and water never appear in him. --Shak.
3. The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface
of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of
all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like;
sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the
visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth;
rich earth.
Give him a little earth for charity. --Shak.
4. A part of this globe; a region; a country; land.
Would I had never trod this English earth. --Shak.
5. Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the
pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.
Our weary souls by earth beguiled. --Keble.
6. The people on the globe.
The whole earth was of one language. --Gen. xi. 1.
7. (Chem.)
(a) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina,
glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.
(b) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as
lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.
8. A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as,
the earth of a fox. --Macaulay.
They [ferrets] course the poor conies out of their
earths. --Holland.
9. (Elec.) The connection of any part an electric conductor
with the ground; specif., the connection of a telegraph
line with the ground through a fault or otherwise.
Note: When the resistance of the earth connection is low it
is termed a good earth.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Note: Earth is used either adjectively or in combination to
form compound words; as, earth apple or earth-apple;
earth metal or earth-metal; earth closet or
earth-closet.
{Adamic earth}, {Bitter earth}, {Bog earth}, {Chian earth},
etc. See under {Adamic}, {Bitter}, etc.
{Alkaline earths}. See under {Alkaline}.
{Earth apple}. (Bot.)
(a) A potato.
(b) A cucumber.
{Earth auger}, a form of auger for boring into the ground; --
called also {earth borer}.
{Earth bath}, a bath taken by immersing the naked body in
earth for healing purposes.
{Earth battery} (Physics), a voltaic battery the elements of
which are buried in the earth to be acted on by its
moisture.
{Earth chestnut}, the pignut.
{Earth closet}, a privy or commode provided with dry earth or
a similar substance for covering and deodorizing the
f[ae]cal discharges.
{Earth dog} (Zo["o]l.), a dog that will dig in the earth, or
enter holes of foxes, etc.
{Earth hog}, {Earth pig} (Zo["o]l.), the aard-vark.
{Earth hunger}, an intense desire to own land, or, in the
case of nations, to extend their domain.
{Earth light} (Astron.), the light reflected by the earth, as
upon the moon, and corresponding to moonlight; -- called
also {earth shine}. --Sir J. Herschel.
{Earth metal}. See 1st {Earth}, 7. (Chem.)
{Earth oil}, petroleum.
{Earth pillars} or {Earth pyramids} (Geol.), high pillars or
pyramids of earth, sometimes capped with a single stone,
found in Switzerland. --Lyell.
{Earth pitch} (Min.), mineral tar, a kind of asphaltum.
{Earth quadrant}, a fourth of the earth's circumference.
{Earth table} (Arch.), the lowest course of stones visible in
a building; the ground table.
{On earth}, an intensive expression, oftenest used in
questions and exclamations; as, What on earth shall I do?
Nothing on earth will satisfy him. [Colloq.]
Earth \Earth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Earthed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Earthing}.]
1. To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a
burrow or den. ``The fox is earthed.'' --Dryden.
2. To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; --
sometimes with up.
The miser earths his treasure, and the thief,
Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon.
--Young.
Why this in earthing up a carcass? --R. Blair.
Earth \Earth\, v. i.
To burrow. --Tickell.
Earth \Earth\, n. [From {Ear} to plow.]
A plowing. [Obs.]
Such land as ye break up for barley to sow,
Two earths at the least, ere ye sow it, bestow.
--Tusser.
- The earth was to be shipped to a storage facility in Barnwell, S.C., Robinson said.
- "I live close to the earth," notes the lookout, a 40-year-old who has a girlfriend in Greenville.
- JoAnne Akalaitis, earth mother of the avant-garde theater troupe Mabou Mines, was named his artistic associate.
- 'This is not the time to be chasing value to the ends of the earth and winding up in the Colombian stock market.
- As the cold war ebbs, routine, maintenance-related dispatches on the presidential hot line are becoming more informal, said Tom Brothers, manager of the Fort Detrick earth station.
- Person said the quake was felt across a wide area because it was centered 75 miles below the earth's surface.
- What on earth could government do with 25% of GNP that would foster economic growth?
- "I love hiking with my wife, but I've found that I also need time alone with the wilderness," he says, because "the solitude and closeness with the earth is much more intense." But long walks aren't as free as they used to be.
- But he speculated that if atmospheric pressure patterns are related to quakes, it may be because winds associated with the patterns raise offshore sea levels slightly, putting more pressure on the earth.
- Civil defense officials warned that huge boulders and rain-loosened earth on many hillsides presented an extreme risk of new avalanches, particularly in the crowded shantytown slums that line the hills.
- I will be standing there with him, in the forefront of that battle _ because America should not be the only industrial nation on earth, except for South Africa, that insures the health of its politicians, but not its people.
- Local newspapers have been filled with pictures of cracked earth and skeletal cattle.
- Their contention is that foreigners should indeed be attracted to U.S. assets, since such assets are a solid investment providing a good return in the most politically stable large nation on earth.
- Maxi in particular is so down to earth that when we see her squealing with delight in the Trump Tower atrium, we could be in any shopping mall anywhere in America.
- 'He was a Liberal Democrat,' she said. 'What on earth did that mean?'
- Government bulldozers continued removing mines and earth mounds along the five-mile Green Line that divides Beirut into Christian and Moslem sections.
- The question that Westerners then ask is how on earth anyone can run a financial system without the use of debt.
- Early survey satellites served commercial geologists mostly as platforms for aerial photography, helping them find faults and fissures in the earth where minerals might occur.
- "That is totally impossible in any hotel market on earth," he says, adding that in his view it needs to be written down "to a level probably less than one-third that sunk into it.
- Since it contains no chlorine, the new compound has no effect on the ozone layer that keeps those cancer-causing rays from reaching the surface of the earth, when it breaks up in the atmosphere.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials say rain poses a danger to the heat-resistant tiles that protect the shuttle during re-entry to the earth's atmosphere.
- But this cannot be news to the most litigious nation on earth.
- The blockade was a series of mounds of earth, some teepees and old couches, stretching 330 feet across a dirt road nestled in a large meadow beneath thew snowcapped Coast Mountains.
- CFCs deplete the earth's ozone layer, which blocks solar radiation that can cause skin cancer and crop damage.
- It looked like a bulldozer had scraped the earth.
- The move sheds his sycophant, Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley Jr.), who declares after another fawning surgery session, "I'd follow you to the ends of the earth.
- Quayle and Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu agreed that their nations would work together on a project to measure the effects of solar radiation on the earth's magnetic field.
- It will have to be 'Life On Mars' since there cannot, surely, be anywhere on earth more extreme than Antarctica.
- They are engaged in a scorched earth policy against the truth." He also was identifying with past Democratic presidents _ with the notable exception of Jimmy Carter _ and pledging to make America first in education, health care, and exporting products.
- Yet he found the mettle to send American arms into the far corners of the earth, to cut the people's taxes, with what consequences we may not know until some future hour.
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