Careen



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. ( 船) 倾斜; 使倾斜
• ［英］ v. ( 船) 倾斜 ( to lean sideways) ; 使倾斜 ( to cause a ship to lean)
• ［同］ 近形词: career ( 职业)
• ［例］ As the carriage careened down the hill, the passengers were thrown roughly from side to side.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb

• Etymology: from carine side of a ship, from Middle French, submerged part of a hull, from Latin carina hull, half of a nutshell; perhaps akin to Greek karyon nut
• Date: circa 1583
• transitive verb
  • 1. to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull
  • 2. to cause to heel over
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to careen a boat
    • b. to undergo this process
  • 2. to heel over
  • 3. to sway from side to side ; lurch careening carriage being pulled wildly…by a team of runaway horses — J. P. Getty
  • 4. career

II. noun

• Date: 1712
• archaic the act or process of careening ; the state of being careened

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