- 1叉齒、尖齒（叉子、耙子上的那一根根尖頭；鹿角的分岔也叫 tine）
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. 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. 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. Whenever you use it, remember the word names one point, not the set — a fork has four tines, not one tine with four parts.
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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.”
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