Picture the actual animal: a wild creature like a small dog, reddish-brown, with a sharp pointed face, quick eyes and a thick bushy tail, slipping quietly through fields and woods. In folk stories the fox is the famous — it survives by being quick, sly and clever rather than strong — and almost every other meaning of the word leans on that one reputation.
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原始詞典資料48 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。
Foxnoun
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A radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter F.
Foxname
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A surname transferred from the common noun derived from the name of the animal.
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A male given name.
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broadcastingmediaFox Broadcasting Company, a large television network in the United States.
- I watched a great show on Fox last night.
- In some ways, it’s a pragmatic practice: Fox anchors such as Sean Hannity and, at one point, Tucker Carlson routinely attack Milley – and during the Trump years, there was also a reasonable expectation that the president would be talking to the hosts of those shows.
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesSomeone connected with Leicester City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- The Foxes played with plenty of initiative in the original tie at the Walkers Stadium and they started this tie in impressively positive fashion, producing the game's first two chances: Andy King's goal-bound half-volley from Steve Howard's header down was tipped over by Joe Hart and Sol Bamba headed the resultant corner wide.
foxnoun/fɒks/
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A small-to-medium-sized canine mammal, related to dogs and wolves, with a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail, of the following groups:
- A group of foxes is called a skulk.
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A small-to-medium-sized canine mammal, related to dogs and wolves, with a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail, of the following groups:
- The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
- The fox went out on a chase one night, / he prayed to the Moon to give him light, / for he had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o. / He had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o.
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A small-to-medium-sized canine mammal, related to dogs and wolves, with a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail, of the following groups:
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The fur of a fox.
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A fox terrier.
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A flying fox.
- Their screeches heralded excited talk from the hurrying troops, for flying fox is a delicacy. The densely-foliaged trees hedged a sombre pool, deep and quiet. As the slain foxes dropped into the water the snouts of river crocodiles popped up and devoured them.
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The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
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A cunning person.
- As for thee, false friend, subtle fox, unfaithful servant, this long time am I grown weary of thee slinking up and down my palace devising darkly things I know not: thou, that art nought akin to Witchland, but an outlander, a Goblin exile, a serpent warmed in my bosom to my hurt.
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slangA physically attractive person, typically a woman.
- And Jerry was cute, you know, I liked him, but Frank was a total fox. And he was rougher than Jerry, you know, not so cultured.
- It wasn't just that Jayne was a fox – although, fuck, was she ever a fox. That arse, those tits, those lips. They could have a really good time together.
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slangA person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
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nauticaltransportA small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
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engineeringmechanical-engineeringmechanicsA wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
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A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- Locating a hidden transmitter (the fox) has been a popular ham activity for many years.
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cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe fourteenth Lenormand card.
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obsoleteA sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
- Thou diest on point of fox.
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationAir-to-air weapon launched.
- Got a lock! Fox, Fox!
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesSomeone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.
- Austin was patiently and painstakingly concerned with truth within limitations. He was a hedgehog, not a fox.
- Dewey was a hedgehog rather than a fox; he spent his life trying to articulate and restate a single vision, and in the writings of his third decade he already exhibits the tension I have claimed to find in the later writings.
foxverb/fɒks/
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To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- I see a number of gallants every where, whoſe incomes come in yearely by ſet numbers, but runne out daily, ſans number. […] And when I ſee them often foxed, me thinke the Proverbe ſutes thoſe ſutes, what is the fox but his caſe? I ſhould thinke them to be Eutrapelus his enemies, whom he cloathed richly to make them ſpend freely, and grow deboſhed.
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To sham, to dissemble.
- He was not foxing. No, no: he was sick really.
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To confuse or baffle (someone).
- This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.
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To act slyly or craftily.
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datedTo cheat or rob.
- Have you any news of Miriam? As I have had no reply to my delicately worded epistle, I can only presume that you foxed me with the wrong address, and that you are yourself already engaged to be married to her.
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To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- The pages of the book show distinct foxing.
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To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
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To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
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To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
- I drank […] so much wine that I was almost foxed.
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To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- forkhead box protein
- Fox Tribe
- Fox language
- Fox Indian
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