rabbit

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

rabbits

1.
(countable, uncountable)A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
The pioneers survived by eating the small game they could get: rabbits, squirrels and occasionally a raccoon.
2.
(uncountable)The meat from this animal.
She was cooking rabbit stew for dinner.
3.
(uncountable)The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
4.
(countable, uncountable)A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.
5.
(countable, uncountable)(cricket) A very poor batsman, selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
Đồng nghĩa: walking wicket
6.
(countable, uncountable)(cricket) A batsman who is frequently dismissed by the same bowler (said to be that player's rabbit).
Glenn McGrath dismissed Michael Atherton a record 19 times; hence Atherton is McGrath's rabbit.
Đồng nghĩa: bunny
7.
(countable, uncountable)(computing theory) A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position. Compare turtle.
8.
(countable, uncountable)Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.
9.
(countable, uncountable)A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.
This rabbit is constructed such that only that fraction of the beam that passes through the 15g-in. diameter target container reaches the Faraday cup behind the rabbit.
10.
(countable, uncountable)(genericized trademark) A vibrator with a shaft and a clitoral stimulator usually shaped like a rabbit's ears.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

rabbits

V_ing/Gerund

rabbiting

V_ed/pp

rabbittingrabbited

1.
(intransitive)To hunt rabbits.
2.
(US, intransitive)To flee.
The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.
When the three friends heard someone behind them yell, "police, freeze!" they each rabbited in a different direction.
3.
(British, intransitive)To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
Stop your infernal rabbiting! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!
Đồng nghĩa: rabbit on
4.
Confound; damn; drat.

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Nguồn gốc từ

Middle English rabet, rabette, from Anglo-Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch - or robbe (rabbit, seal), of origin; possibly some verb, maybe robben, rubben (to rub) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub.