slave

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

slaves

1.
A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
2.
(figuratively)A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
3.
(figuratively)An abject person.
Đồng nghĩa: wretch
4.
(figuratively)One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.
a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
Đồng nghĩa: thrall
5.
(BDSM) A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
6.
A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.
7.
(engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
Đồng nghĩa: secondary, worker

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

slaves

V_ing/Gerund

slaving

V_ed/pp

slaved

1.
To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
2.
(intransitive)To work hard.
I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
3.
(transitive)To place a device under the control of another.
to slave a hard disk

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

wretch thrall secondary worker

Trái nghĩa

master primary

Cùng gốc / liên quan

chattelindentured servant

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Nguồn gốc từ

Middle English sclave, from Old French esclave, from sclavus (slave), from Sclavus (Slav), traditionally assumed to be because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Σκλάβος; see that entry and Slav for more. Displaced native þēow. Thrall and bondsman/bondswoman, however, remain common synonyms. ciao Slav.