Squat



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.蹲下; adj.矮胖的
• ［英］ v.蹲下 ( crouch on the ground)
• ［类］ 反义词: tall and thin ( 瘦高的)
• ［例］ They squatted down to wait in the shade／a squat woman.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (squatted; squatting)

• Etymology: Middle English squatten to crush, crouch in hiding, from Middle French (Picard dialect) esquatir, escuater, from Old French es- ex- + quatir to hide, from Vulgar Latin *coactire to squeeze, alteration of Latin coactare to compel — more at cache
• Date: 15th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground
  • 2. to occupy as a squatter <squat in an abandoned building>
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to crouch close to the ground as if to escape observation <a hare squatting in the grass>
  • 2. to assume or maintain a position in which the body is supported on the feet and the knees are bent so that the buttocks rest on or near the heels
  • 3. to be or become a squatter

II. adjective (squatter; squattest)

• Date: 15th century
• 1. sitting with the haunches close above the heels
• 2.
  • a. low to the ground
  • b. marked by disproportionate shortness or thickness
• ? squatly adverb
• ? squatness noun

III. noun

• Date: 1580
• 1.
  • a. the act of squatting
  • b. the posture of one that squats
• 2.
  • a. a place where one squats
  • b. the lair of a small animal <the squat of a hare>
• 3. a lift in which a standing weight lifter drops to a squatting position and then rises to an upright position while holding a barbell on the shoulders; also a competitive event involving this lift
• 4. chiefly British an empty house or building that is occupied by squatters
• 5. slang diddly-squat

---