spell

Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.

He cast a spell to cure warts.

Đồng nghĩa: cantrip, incantation, cantrip, chantment, charm, craft, dwimmer, enchantment, hex, incantation, magic, magic spell, makutu, mojo, obeah, pishogue, rune, spell, spellword, wanga

A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.

under a spell

Đồng nghĩa: cantrip, curse

(obsolete)Speech, discourse.

A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.

(informal)A definite period (of work or other activity).

(colloquial)An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.

A period of rest; time off.

(US, colloquial)A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.

(cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.

(Northern England)A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.

The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

1697, John Dryden (translator), Georgics, Book 3 in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 109, lines 444-446, This, gather’d in the Planetary Hour, With noxious Weeds, and spell’d with Words of pow’r Dire Stepdames in the Magick Bowl infuse;

Đồng nghĩa: bespell, enspell, spellbind, bechat, becry, beglammer, bespell, bewitch, conjure, enchant, englamour, ensorcell, enspell, forspeak, glamour, hex, jinx, maleficiate, mojo, spell, spellbind, spellcast, witch

(intransitive, sometimes, transitive)(intransitive, transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.

I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic.

(obsolete, transitive)To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.

(transitive)Of letters: to compose (a word).

The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.

(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.

Please spell it out for me.

(transitive)To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun.

This spells trouble.

To constitute; to measure.

(obsolete)To speak, to declaim.

(obsolete)To tell; to relate; to teach.

1770, Thomas Warton, “Ode on the Approach of Summer” in A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, London: G. Pearch, Volume 1, p. 278, As thro’ the caverns dim I wind, Might I that legend find, By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes,

(music) To notate or indicate a pitch, interval, or chord using a particular enharmonic spelling.

The note D♭ is spelled differently from C♯, even though they sound equivalent.

The way you spell a chord reflects its harmonic function.

A dominant seventh chord is spelled with a diminished seventh interval, not a major sixth.

(transitive)To work in place of (someone).

to spell the helmsman

(transitive)To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.

They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.