bunt

bunt1
[bʌnt]
noun
  1. the baggy centre of a fishing net or a sail
    渔网腹,帆腹
语源
  1. late 16th cent.: of unknown origin

bunt2
[bʌnt]
(亦作 wheat bunt)
noun
  1. [mass noun]a disease of wheat caused by a smut fungus, the spores of which give off a smell of rotten fish
    (小麦)腥黑穗病。 亦称 stinking smut
  2. The fungus is Tilletia, class Teliomycetes
    该真菌汉语名亦为小麦腥黑穗病,冬孢真菌纲
语源
  1. early 17th cent. (denoting the puffball fungus): of unknown origin

bunt3
[bʌnt]
verb
[with obj.]
  1. (Baseball)(of a batter) gently tap (a pitched ball) without swinging so that it does not roll beyond the infield[no obj.]
    (棒球)(棒球手)触击,轻打
    he can bunt the ball and get on base.
    他轻打就可以上垒了。
    Phil bunted and got to first.
    菲尔轻击了一下然后登上一垒。
    ■(of a batter) help (a base-runner) to progress to a further base by tapping a ball in such a way
    (击球手)轻击球帮助(跑垒员)
    he bunted him to third.
    他轻击助他进到三垒。
  2. (of a person or animal) butt with the head or horns
    (人,动物)轻轻用头(或角)触(或顶)
    he bunted her with his head.
    他用头轻轻顶她。
noun
  1. (Baseball)an act or result of tapping a pitched ball in such a way
    (棒球)触击,轻打
  2. an act of flying an aircraft in part of an outside loop
    (飞行)半外斤斗
语源
  1. mid 18th cent.: probably related to the noun butt (the original sense). The usage in aeronautics dates from the 1930s
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