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Zed is what British, Irish, Canadian, and Australian English speakers call the letter 'Z' — Americans say 'zee' instead. If you hear someone say the alphabet ends in 'zed,' that's a clue they're using British-style English, not American.
字母Z的唸法(英式)
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。
Zedname詞源 1
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A diminutive of the male given name Zedekiah.
- “So you changed it.” “Yes.” He turns off the tap. “Why did you choose the name Zed? What does it mean?” “Nothing. It's the last letter of the alphabet.”
zednoun/zɛd/
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The name of the Latin script letter Z/z.
- Zzz...With all those ʻzedsʼ I'll be sending you to sleep.
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Something Z-shaped.
- zed-bar
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Sleep.
- I'm going to go get some zeds.
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slangA zombie.
- A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.
zedverb/zɛd/
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informalTo sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
- Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
- I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
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rareTo zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
- We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
- Licking his lips, his hand zedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。