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A lathe is a machine that holds a piece of wood or metal and turns it round and round while a sharp tool cuts it. That is how people make table legs, bowls, screws, and other round things.
A lathe車床is is a machine一種機器that holds能夾住a piece of wood or metal一塊木頭或金屬and turns it round and round並讓它不斷轉動while a sharp tool cuts it同時用鋒利的刀具切削它；That這樣做is how就是people人們make table legs, bowls, screws, and other round things做出桌腳、碗、螺絲和其他圓形東西的方法
The same word works as a verb: to lathe something is to shape it on that machine. It belongs in workshops and factories, not in everyday chat.
The same word同一個字works也可以當as a verb動詞用: to lathe something用車床加工某樣東西is is to shape it就是on that machine在那台機器上把它塑形；It它belongs屬於in workshops and factories工廠和工作坊的用語, not in everyday chat不是日常聊天裡的用語
On the page it is one letter away from , the thin wooden strip used under plaster; they name different tools of the trade.
On the page寫在紙上時it它is one letter away from只差一個字母就變成lathlath, the thin wooden strip used under plaster（抹灰泥牆底下用的那種薄木條）; they它們name指的是different tools of the trade行業裡不同的工具
Older English also had other words spelled lathe — a verb meaning invite, from Old English laþian, and a district of a county, from Old English lǣþ — but those are not this machine, and you will not meet them in ordinary modern talk. When someone says lathe now, they mean the turning machine.
Older English舊式英文裡also had還有other words spelled lathe其他也拼成lathe的字— a verb meaning invite一個意思是「邀請」的動詞, from Old English laþian源自古英文laþian, and a district of a county以及指一個郡的行政區, from Old English lǣþ源自古英文lǣþ— but those但這些字are not不是this machine指這台機器, and you will not meet them你不會在in ordinary modern talk一般現代對話裡遇到它們；When someone says lathe now現在如果有人說lathe, they mean他們指的就是the turning machine那台車床
組成The machine-word does not split in the English we use now. Older English had other words spelled the same (a verb “to invite”, from Old English laþian; a county district, from Old English lǣþ), but those are not this machine.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
latheverb詞源 1/leɪð/
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dialectalTo invite; bid; ask.
lathenoun詞源 2/leɪð/
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obsoleteAn administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
lathenoun詞源 3/leɪð/
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artsbusinesscarpentryA machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
- He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.
- The accidental amputation was due to the guard not being on the lathe.
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businessmanufacturingtextilesThe movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
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obsoleteA granary; a barn.
- […]lathe, a barn, is still used in some parts of Yorkshire, but chiefly in local designations, being otherwise obsolescent ; see the Cleveland and Whitby glossaries. ‘The northern man writing to his neighbor may say, “My lathe standeth neer the kirkegarth,” for My barn standeth neere the churchyard’
latheverb詞源 3/leɪð/
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To shape with a lathe.
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computer-graphicscomputingengineeringTo produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。