Sellname

• 1

  A surname.

sellverb詞源 1/sɛl/

• 1

  To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

  • She sold her old car very quickly.
  • I'll sell you three books for a hundred dollars.
• 2

  To be sold.

  • This old stock will never sell.
  • The corn sold for a good price.
• 3

  To promote (a product or service) although not being paid in any direct way or at all.

  • Howard: You're gonna feel terrible when I'm in a wheelchair. Which, by the way, would fit easily in the back of this award-winning minivan. Bernadette: Fine, we'll go to the E.R. Just stop selling me on the van. Howard: You're right. It sells itself.
• 4

  To promote (a particular viewpoint).

  • My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
• 5

  To betray for money or other things.

• 6

  slangTo trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.

  • Then weaues Other crosse-plots New tricks for safety, are sought; They thriue: When, bold, Each tempt's th'other againe, and all are sold.
  • House was jammed again that night, and we sold this crowd the same way.
• 7

  slanggovernmenthobbieslifestyleTo pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.

• 8

  slangTo throw under the bus; to let down one's own team in an endeavour, especially in a sport or a game.

  • He's selling!
  • He really sold in that match.

sellnoun詞源 1/sɛl/

• 1

  An act of selling; sale.

  • Now the easiest sell in traveldom is made even easier.
• 2

  The promotion of an idea for acceptance.

  • This is going to be a tough sell.
• 3

  An easy task.

• 4

  datedAn imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.

  • "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."
  • What a sell for Lena!

sellnoun詞源 2/sɛl/

• 1

  obsoleteA seat or stool.

  • The tyrant proud frown’d from his loftie cell, [...].
• 2

  archaicA saddle.

  • turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell, / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].
  • Then she gave unto him a horse so good, And therewith a new sell; "And never shalt thou the way inquire, Thy horse will find it well."

sellnoun詞源 3/sɛl/

• 1

  obsoleteregionalA rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).

  • He picked up the sell from the straw-strewn barn-floor, snelly sneaked up behind her and sleekly slung it around her swire while scryingː "dee, dee ye fooking quhoreǃ".