stern
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
Đồng nghĩa: grim, severe
- 2.
Grim and forbidding in appearance.
Đồng nghĩa: bleak, sombre, cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gray, gloomsome, gloomy, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
Đồng nghĩa: aft, poop
- 2.
(figuratively)(figurative) The post of management or direction.
- 3.
The hinder part of anything.
- 4.
The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
- 5.
A bird, the black tern, seabird.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(ambitransitive, obsolete)To steer, to direct the course of (a ship).
- 2.
(ambitransitive)(ambitransitive, nautical) To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.
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Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English stern, sterne, sturne, from Old English styrne (stern, grave, strict, austere, hard, severe, cruel), from Proto-Germanic *sturnijaz (angry, astonished, shocked), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (rigid, stiff). Cognate with stern, stornēn to be astonished, stuurs, stursk insolent.