picket

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

pickets

1.
(countable, uncountable)A stake driven into the ground.
a picket fence
2.
(countable, historical, uncountable)A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
3.
(countable, uncountable)A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
4.
(countable, uncountable)(military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
5.
(countable, figuratively, sometimes, uncountable)(sometimes figurative) A sentry.
6.
(countable, uncountable)A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.
7.
(uncountable)(card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

pickets

V_ing/Gerund

picketing

V_ed/pp

pickettingpicketed

1.
(intransitive)To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
2.
(transitive)To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
3.
(transitive)To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
to picket a horse
4.
(transitive)To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
5.
(obsolete, transitive)To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

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counterpicketoutpicketpicketablepicketeepicketerpicket boatpicket linepicket pinflying picketpicket bulletpicket fencepicket housepicket-housescrew picketstar picketwhite picket fencepicketmatepicketlesspicket rope

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Nguồn gốc từ

From French piquet, from piquer (to pierce).