stalk
The stem or main axis of a plantThe stem or main axis of a plant.
» Are you stalking me?
Ты меня преследуешь?
Значение
значений: 14The stem or main axis of a plant.
a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp
Strunk, Stiel, Stängel
сте́бельstébelʹ, стебло́stebló
стебло́stebló, сте́бельstébelʹ
The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
grape stalks
Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
Holm
A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
(сленг)The penis.
A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
- a stiff or threatening gait
- the act of following prey stealthily
- a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
Примеры
предложений: 141Are you stalking me?
Ты меня преследуешь?
I didn't know who was stalking me.
Tom didn't know who was stalking him.
Tom says that someone has been stalking him.
Tom says that somebody has been stalking him.
Переводы
языков: 9По значениям 1
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Происхождение
From Middle English stalke, stelke, stalk, perhaps from Old English *stealc, *stielc, *steFrom Middle English stalke, stelke, stalk, perhaps from Old English *stealc, *stielc, *stealuc, from Proto-West Germanic *staluk, *stalik, from Proto-Germanic *stalukaz, *stalikaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *stalô, *staluz (“support, stem, stalk”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, stand; be stiff; stud, post, trunk, stake, stem, stalk”).
From Middle English stalken, from Old English *stealcian (as in bestealcian (“to move stealthily”), stealcung (“stalking”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stalukōn, from Proto-Germanic *stalukōną (“to stalk, move stealthily”) (compare Dutch stelkeren, stolkeren (“to tip-toe, tread carefully”), Danish stalke (“to high step, stalk”), Norwegian dialectal stalka (“to trudge”)), from *stalkaz, *stelkaz (compare Old English stealc (“steep”), Old Norse stelkr, stjalkr (“knot (bird), red sandpiper”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telg, *(s)tolg- (compare Middle Irish tolg (“strength”), Lithuanian stalgùs (“stiff, defiant, proud”)).
Attested 1530 in the sense "to walk haughtily", perhaps from Old English stealc (“steep”), from Proto-Germanic *stelkaz, *stalkaz (“high, lofty, steep, stiff”); see above.
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Формы
мн. число: stalksСинонимы
синонимов: 10- a stiff or threatening gait:angry walk
- the act of following prey stealthily:stalking
- a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush:stalkingstill hunt
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ:stem
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds:chaffhuskshuckstrawstubble