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A tine is one of the sharp points on a tool that has several points in a row. The tines of a fork are the parts that go into the food; a garden fork has four thick tines; a rake has many thin ones.
A tine一根tine（尖齒） is one of the sharp points on a tool that has several points in a row是一件有好幾根尖頭排成一排的工具上，其中一根尖尖的部分。The tines of a fork叉子上的tines are the parts that go into the food就是插進食物裡的那些部分; a garden fork has four thick tines園藝用的叉子有四根粗的tines; a rake has many thin ones耙子則有很多根細的。
It is a precise, slightly technical word — a shop selling garden tools will use it, and so will a dentist or an engineer talking about a small part, but at the dinner table most people just say 'the bits' or 'the prongs'. Prong is the everyday partner word and covers almost the same ground.
It is a precise, slightly technical word這是個精確、稍微專業的字 — a shop selling garden tools will use it賣園藝工具的店會用它, and so will a dentist or an engineer talking about a small forked part牙醫或工程師講到一個小小的分叉零件時也會用它, but at the dinner table不過在餐桌上 most people just say 'the pointy bits' or 'the prongs'大家通常就說'the pointy bits'（尖尖的那部分）或'the prongs'。Prong這個字prong is the everyday partner word是它日常生活裡的替代字 and covers almost the same ground而且涵蓋的範圍幾乎一樣。
Two other places you meet tine: the branches of a deer's are called tines (hunters count them to judge the animal's age), and the two arms of a tuning fork are its tines.
Two other places you meet tine還有兩個地方你會遇到tine這個字: the branches of a deer's antler are called tines鹿角上的分岔叫做tines (hunters count them to judge the animal's age獵人會數這些分岔來判斷這隻鹿的年紀), and the two arms of a tuning fork are its tines音叉的兩隻叉臂也叫做tines。
Whenever you use it, remember the word names one point, not the set — a fork has four tines, not one tine with four parts.
Whenever you use it不管什麼時候用這個字, remember都要記得 the word names one point, not the set它指的是『一根』尖齒，不是整組 — a fork has four tines, not one tine with four parts一支叉子有四根tines，而不是一根有四個部分的tine。
組成An old English word, from Old English tind, and further back from an Indo-European root meaning 'tooth' or 'peg' — the same very old root behind 'tooth' itself. A tine is, in the oldest sense, a tooth on a tool.
同家族的字
- toothfrom the same ancient Indo-European root for 'tooth'; the teeth of a comb or a saw are the same picture as the tines of a fork
原始詞典資料9 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。
Tinename
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A surname.
tinenoun詞源 1/taɪn/
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A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
- The tines of the fork were quite evidently of iron or steel, the girl did not know which, while the handle and the spoon were of the same material as the smaller vessels.
- Sitting at the table one day, I held the fork in my left hand and pierced a piece of fried chicken. I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone.
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A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
- “I answer not the challenge of my prisoner,” said Front-de-Bœuf; “nor shalt thou, Maurice de Bracy.—Giles,” he continued, “hang the franklin’s glove upon the tine of yonder branched antlers:[…]
- “By my faith, sirs,” he continued, half turning in his saddle to address his escort, “unless my woodcraft is sadly at fault, it is a stag of six tines and the finest that we have roused this journey.
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dialectalA wild vetch or tare.
tineadj詞源 2
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small, diminutive
tinenoun詞源 3
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obsoleteTrouble; distress; teen.
- As wither'd Weed through cruel Winter's Tine
- And now has brave Sir Thynnè, Escaped all sorrow and tine; Now sleeps she sweet full many a sleep, On brave Sir Thynnè's arm.
tineverb詞源 4
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obsoleteTo kindle; to set on fire.
- Coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd.
- The Air attrite to Fire, as late the Clouds / Juſtling or puſht with Winds rude in thir ſhock / Tine the ſlant Lightning, […]
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obsoleteTo rage; to smart.
- Ne was there salve, ne was there medicine, / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.
tineverb詞源 5
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archaicTo shut in, or enclose.
- When I was then surrounded on every side by the fiends, and tined about by the blindness of the darkness, then hove I my eyes up and looked hither and yond, whether any help were to come to me, that I might be rescued; […]
- “Terrible trying,” said Oak. “I’ve been wet through twice a-day, either in snow or rain, this last fortnight. Cainy and I haven’t tined our eyes to-night.”
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。