英:[ləʊd]
美:[loʊd]
英:[ləʊd]
美:[loʊd]
noun
a deposit of a mineral, such as copper ore, that fills a crack in a rock formation.
a mass of ore distinct from the surrounding earth or rock.
a plentiful source or supply.
“load”(n.)的中古英语拼写,保留了大部分单词原本的意思“一种方式,一种课程,需要遵循的事物”。意义上的区分发生在16世纪,拼写上稍晚一些。矿业中“金属矿脉”的意思可追溯至17世纪,源于矿工“跟随”矿脉穿过岩石的概念。也可在 lodestone 、lodestar 和 livelihood 中找到,后者的意思有些隐晦。中古英语中还有 lodesman(约1300年)的用法,意为“领袖,导游; 领航员,舵手”。
Middle English, from Old English lād course, support; akin to Old English līthan to go — more at lead
The first known use of lode was before the 12th century
loessnoun
a fine usually yellowish brown soil found in North America, Europe, and Asia and believed to be chiefly deposited by the wind
lodgmentnoun
a lodging place : shelter
lodging sense 2
the act, fact, or manner of lodging
a hut for temporary lodgment of travelers
a placing, depositing, or coming to rest
an accumulation of something deposited in a place
a lodgment of leaves in a gutter
lodge1 of 2verb
to provide or serve as especially temporary quarters for
lodged their guests overnight
to establish or settle oneself in a place
to settle or live in as a residence
to rent lodgings to
to serve as a receptacle for : contain
to bring or come to a rest and remain the bullet lodged in a tree
the bone lodged in the throat
to lay before a proper authority : file
lodge a complaint
lodge2 of 2noun
a house set apart for residence in a special season
a hunting lodge
a resort hotel
ski lodge
a house for an employee on an estate
the gamekeeper's lodge
a den or lair of wild animals (as beavers)
the meeting place of a branch (as of a fraternal organization)also: the members of such a branch
wigwam
a family of North American Indigenous people
lodgernoun
one that lodgesespecially: one that occupies a rented room in another's house
lodgmentnoun
a lodging place : shelter
lodging sense 2
the act, fact, or manner of lodging
a hut for temporary lodgment of travelers
a placing, depositing, or coming to rest
an accumulation of something deposited in a place
a lodgment of leaves in a gutter
lodge1 of 2verb
to provide or serve as especially temporary quarters for
lodged their guests overnight
to establish or settle oneself in a place
to settle or live in as a residence
to rent lodgings to
to serve as a receptacle for : contain
to bring or come to a rest and remain the bullet lodged in a tree
the bone lodged in the throat
to lay before a proper authority : file
lodge a complaint
lodge2 of 2noun
a house set apart for residence in a special season
a hunting lodge
a resort hotel
ski lodge
a house for an employee on an estate
the gamekeeper's lodge
a den or lair of wild animals (as beavers)
the meeting place of a branch (as of a fraternal organization)also: the members of such a branch
wigwam
a family of North American Indigenous people
lodge1 of 2verb
to provide or serve as especially temporary quarters for
lodged their guests overnight
to establish or settle oneself in a place
to settle or live in as a residence
to rent lodgings to
to serve as a receptacle for : contain
to bring or come to a rest and remain the bullet lodged in a tree
the bone lodged in the throat
to lay before a proper authority : file
lodge a complaint
lodge2 of 2noun
a house set apart for residence in a special season
a hunting lodge
a resort hotel
ski lodge
a house for an employee on an estate
the gamekeeper's lodge
a den or lair of wild animals (as beavers)
the meeting place of a branch (as of a fraternal organization)also: the members of such a branch
wigwam
a family of North American Indigenous people
lodestonenoun
a rock having magnetic properties
something that strongly attracts
lodestarnoun
a star that leads or guidesespecially: north star
lodenoun
an ore deposit
1 And the source of most parenting conversation nowadays – the mother lode, if you will – is still women.
2 Its narrow - mindedness, complacency and conformism are mother lode of material for sitcom writers and novelists.
他们目光短浅 、 自命不凡 、因循守旧的形象,总是为喜剧作家和小说家们提供着无穷无尽的笑料.
3 I cleaned the car by hand for the first time in years, then found a mother lode of black beans in the back of the cupboard.
几年来,我第一次自己动手清洗汽车,而后又在橱柜背后发现许多豆豉。
4 We exchanged pleasantries as we walked, then we hit the mother lode — a great gray!
5 Someone said, “Brother, why don’t we feed these boys? That one lodes like he ain’t et in two or three months.”
6 I couldn’t just go back to the mother lode and hit the same button every time.”
7 A well-known scientist, Warwick Kerr, thought that by hybridizing African and Brazilian bees he might be able to create a strain that was both calm and yielded a rich lode of honey.
8 Much of the latter part of the book is set on an Antarctic cruise, and the story becomes somewhat disconnected from Semple's mother lode of inspiration — Seattle and our craving for, yes, excellence.
9 Out in those fields, he used to talk about finding the mother lode, though: a mason jar of old money.
10 On the surface, it’s hardly a mother lode of merchandizing opportunities, but Ana Cela, director of the museum shop and publications, said that even a restrained masterpiece such as this can inspire clever product designs.
11 To hit a real Broadway sister lode you have to time travel further back than “Frozen,” “Wicked” or even “Mame”: half a millennium back, as it happens.
12 Nobody could see this lode of inquiry because of the great helm.
13 In 1883, Adolph Sutro, who made his fortune in the Comstock lode, decided to purchase the Cliff House, after the restaurant’s reputation had fallen.
14 The Shibangou lode-type gold deposit, south-west Henan province, China, is hosted ductile-brittle shear zones.
豫西南的石板沟金矿床是一个与剪切带有关的脉状金矿。
15 Nagging, wheedling, needling, needy or demanding moms — often of the Jewish persuasion, it must be said — have been an endlessly fertile resource for comedy writers, the mother lode if you will permit a blunt pun.
16 Some mother expressions mean just that. The mother lode comes from mining.
一些涉及母亲的词汇就是这类意思。
17 Her own experiences have provided her with a mother lode of material for her songs.
她自身的经历为她的歌曲提供了取之不尽的素材。
18 And for anyone interested in Nirvana, "Taking Punk to the Masses" is a mother lode.
19 He’s balding, potbellied and desperately looking for a mother lode.
20 After the main course of Malaysian lode, boiled in foil packets in a pot filled with melted snow on a portable stove, we retreated through the trench with a bottle of Wild Turkey.