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Mace has a few different meanings that don't share one history. A mace is a heavy medieval weapon - a club with a spiked metal head. Mace is also a spice made from the dried, lacy covering around a nutmeg seed, with a flavour close to nutmeg. And 'Mace' (from a trademark) is a common name for a self-defence spray, similar to pepper spray.
(武器)狼牙棒;(香料)肉豆蔻乾皮;(商標)防身噴霧
組成Three separate origins: the weapon from Old French mace; the spice from an old, uncertain root; the spray from a trademark name that became a common word.
原始詞典資料21 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。
Macename/meɪs/
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A male given name, a name derived from the war instrument, a mace
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A surname.
- Prior to the House passing the legislation, only four Republicans had joined all Democrats in signing a petition to force a vote - Thomas Massie, Lauren Boebert, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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A surname.
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A surname.
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An unincorporated community in Walnut Township, Montgomery County, Indiana, United States.
macenoun詞源 1/meɪs/
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A heavy fighting club.
- The Mace is an ancient weapon, formerly much used by cavalry of all nations, and likewise by ecclesiastics, who in consequence of their tenures, frequently took the field, but were by a canon of the church forbidden to wield the sword.
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A ceremonial form of this weapon.
- I am a king that find thee; and I know 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl
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A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
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An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
- On the left were the Commons with their Speaker, attended by the mace. The southern door opened: and the Prince and Princess of Orange, side by side, entered, and took their place under the canopy of state.
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A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
- In the foreground one man uses the "head knife” to work over the skin on the beam, while another softens a skin with the currier's mace.
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A flail.
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archaicA billiard cue.
maceverb詞源 1/meɪs/
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To hit someone or something with a mace.
macenoun詞源 2/meɪs/
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A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
- I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none -- that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun.
macenoun詞源 3/meɪs/
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Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
- […] was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for shooting a man in the eye with a paintball gun, spraying people in the face with bear mace and aiming a loaded handgun at a crowd, prosecutors said.
maceverb詞源 3/meɪs/
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To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
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informalTo spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.
- When Reynaldo and Willie had burst into Larkey's drug store to confront him, the old man had maced Willie square in the eyes with an aerosol can of spermicidal birth-control foam.
macenoun詞源 4/meɪs/
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An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
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An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
- The decimals of the tael, called mace, candareen, and cash (tsien, fǎn, and li) , are employed in reckoning bullion.
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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。