Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 75
Shrug (v. t.) （表示疑惑，蔑視，無奈等）聳（肩）；聳肩表示 To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing doubt, indifference, dislike, dread, or the like.
He shrugs his shoulders when you talk of securities. -- Addison.
Shrug (v. i.) 聳肩 To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing doubt, indifference, dislike, dread, or the like.
They grin, they shrug.
They bow, they snarl, they snatch, they hug. -- Swift.
Shrug (n.) 聳肩 A gesture consisting of drawing up the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing doubt, indifference, or dislike; -- it is sometimes accompanied by a slight turning of the hands outward or upward. Such a gesture may be made, as in answering "who knows" to a question, suggesting utter ignorance of an answer and a disinclination to pursue the topic further.
On Sept. 23, in a major speech in New York, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commision, Arthur Levitt asked the Big Board to spike the rule [Rule 390] in the interest of free and unfettered markets. . . . Mr. Grasso responded with a shrug, saying that he had no plans to kill the rule. -- Gretchen Morgenson (N. Y. Times Nov. 28, 1999 sect. 3 p. 1.
The Spaniards talk in dialogues Of heads and shoulders, nods and shrugs. -- Hudibras.
Shrug (n.) A gesture involving the shoulders.
Shrug (v.) Raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation.
Shrug (n.) A drawing up of the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing dislike, dread, or doubt.
Shrug (v.) To draw up and drop (the shoulders) abruptly in a gesture expressing indifference, contempt, ignorance, etc.
Shrug (n.) The gesture so made.
Shrug (n.) [C] 女短套衫；女帶袖短披肩 A woman's short jacket or close-fitting cardigan.
Shrunken () p. p. & a. from Shrink.
Shuck (n.) A shock of grain.
Shuck (n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
Shuck (n.) The shell of an oyster or clam.
Shucked (imp. & p. p.) of Shuck.
Shucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shuck.
Shuck (v. t.) To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.
Shucker (n.) One who shucks oysters or clams.
Shuddered (imp. & p. p.) of Shudder.
Shuddering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shudder.
Shudder (v. i.) To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
Shudder (n.) The act of shuddering, as with fear.
Shudderingly (adv.) In a shuddering manner.
Shude (n.) The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake.
Shuffled (imp. & p. p.) of Shuffle.
Shuffling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shuffle.
Shuffle (v. t.) 拖著（腳）走；跳（曳步舞）；洗（牌） To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
Shuffle (v. t.) To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.
A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. -- Rombler.
Shuffle (v. t.) To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. -- Dryden.
{To shuffe off} To push off; to rid one's self of.
{To shuffe up} To throw together in haste to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace.
Shuffle (v. i.) 拖著腳走 [Q]；跳曳步舞；洗牌 To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
Shuffle (v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. -- Shak.
Shuffle (v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself. -- Shak.
Shuffle (v. i.) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. -- Keats.
Syn: To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; sophisticate; juggle.
Shuffle (n.) 曳行，曳步 [S]；曳步舞 [S] ；洗牌；洗牌權 [C] [S1] The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. -- Bentley.
Shuffle (n.) A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. -- L'Estrange.
Shuffle (n.) The act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: {shuffle}, {shuffling}, {make}].
Shuffle (n.) Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" [syn: {shamble}, {shambling}, {shuffle}, {shuffling}].
Shuffle (v.) Walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" [syn: {shuffle}, {scuffle}, {shamble}].
Shuffle (v.) Move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS."
Shuffle (v.) Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards" [syn: {shuffle}, {ruffle}, {mix}].
Shuffleboard (n.) See Shovelboard.
Shufflecap (n.) A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap.
Shuffler (n.) One who shuffles.
Shuffler (n.) Either one of the three common American scaup ducks. See Scaup duck, under Scaup.
Shufflewing (n.) The hedg sparrow.
Shuffling (a.) Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
Shuffling (a.) Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse.
Shuffling (v.) In a shuffling manner.
Shug (v. i.) To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.
Shug (v. i.) Hence, to crawl; to sneak.
Shumac (n.) Sumac.
Shunned (imp. & p. p.) of Shun.
Shunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shun.
Shun (v. t.) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.
Shunless (a.) Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable.
Shunpike (n.) A side road used to avoid the toll on or the speed and traffic of a superhighway . -- Shunpiker (n.), -- Shunpiking (n.)
Shunted (imp. & p. p.) of Shunt.
Shunting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shunt.
Shunt (v. t.) To shun; to move from.
Shunt (v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
Shunt (v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.
Shunt (v. t.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
Shunt (v. i.) To go aside; to turn off.
Shunt (v. t.) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
Shunt (v. t.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.
Shunt (v. t.) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
Shunter (n.) A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.
Shut (imp. & p. p.) of Shut.
Shutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shut.
Shut (v. t.) 關上，閉上，關閉；把……關住；禁閉 [O] To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
Shut (v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
Shall that be shut to man which to the beast Is open? -- Milton.
Shut (v. t.) To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. "Shut from every shore." -- Dryden.
Shut (v. t.) To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.
{To shut in} (a) To inclose; to confine. "The Lord shut him in." -- Cen. vii. 16.
{To shut in} (b) To cover or intercept the view of; as, one point shuts in another.
{To shut off} (a) To exclude.
{To shut off} (b) To prevent the passage of, as steam through a pipe, or water through a flume, by closing a cock, valve, or gate.
{To shut out} To preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof.
{To shut together} To unite; to close, especially to close by welding.
{To shut up} (a) To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house.
{To shut up} (b) To obstruct. "Dangerous rocks shut up the passage." -- Sir W. Raleigh.
{To shut up} (c) To inclose; to confine; to imprison; to fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner.
Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. -- Gal. iii. 23.
{To shut up} (d) To end; to terminate; to conclude.
When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better. -- Collier.
{To shut up} (e) To unite, as two pieces of metal by welding.
{To shut up} (f) To cause to become silent by authority, argument, or force.
Shut (v. i.) 關上，合上；停止營業；打烊 To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
{To shut up} To cease speaking. [Colloq.] -- T. Hughes.
Shut (a.) 關上的；合上的；閉上的 Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
Shut (a.) Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. [Now dialectical or local, Eng. & U.S.] -- L'Estrange.
Shut (a.) (Phon.) (a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g. -- H. Sweet.
Shut (a.) (Phon.) (b.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, [a^], [e^], [i^], [o^], [u^], always are.
Shut (n.) 關閉；關閉的時間 [U]；（金屬的）焊縫 [C] The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.
Just then returned at shut of evening flowers. -- Milton.
Shut (n.) A door or cover; a shutter. [Obs.] -- Sir I. Newton.
Shut (n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
{Cold shut} The imperfection in a casting caused by the flowing of liquid metal upon partially chilled metal; also, the imperfect weld in a forging caused by the inadequate heat of one surface under working.
Shut (a.) Not open; "the door slammed shut" [syn: {shut}, {unopen}, {closed}] [ant: {open}, {unfastened}].
Shut (a.) Used especially of mouth or eyes; "he sat quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the sunlight" [syn: {closed}, {shut}] [ant: {open}, {opened}].
Shut (v.) Move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut; "Close the door"; "shut the window" [syn: {close}, {shut}] [ant: {open}, {open up}].
Shut (v.) Become closed; "The windows closed with a loud bang" [syn: {close}, {shut}] [ant: {open}, {open up}].
Shut (v.) Prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country" [syn: {exclude}, {keep out}, {shut out}, {shut}] [ant: {admit}, {include}, {let in}].
Shutdown (n.) 關閉；停工；（機器）關機；停機 Termination of operations; "they regretted the closure of the day care center" [syn: {closure}, {closedown}, {closing}, {shutdown}].
Shutdown (n.) A closure of a factory or system, typically a temporary closure due to a fault or for maintenance.
‘Engines should be allowed to cool down between a shutdown and the next start.’
[Mass noun] ‘The build-up was pushing the reactor towards shutdown.’
Shutdown (n.) A turning off of a computer or computer system.
Shute (n.) Same as {Chute}, or {Shoot}.
Shute (n.) English writer who settled in Norway after World War II (1899-1960) [syn: {Shute}, {Nevil Shute}, {Nevil Shute Norway}].
Compare: Shoot
Shoot (n.) An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course. [Written also {chute}, and {shute}.] [U. S.]
{To take a shoot} To pass through a shoot instead of the main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.]
Shutter (n.) 百葉窗，遮門，快門，關閉者 One who shuts or closes.
Shutter (n.) A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind.
Shutter (n.) A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle.
Shutter (n.) (Photog.) A mechanical device of various forms, attached to the aperture of a camera lens for opening and closing to expose the plate. It is usually designed so that the time during which the aperture is opened may be varied by a manual dial or by some automatic mechanism, thereby allowing proper exposure of a photographic film under different intensities of light.
Shutter (n.) A mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure.
Shutter (n.) A hinged blind for a window.
Shutter (v.) 裝以遮門，以百葉窗遮閉 Close with shutters; "We shuttered the window to keep the house cool".
Shutter (n.) [ C ] (Photography) （照相機的）快門 The part of a camera that opens temporarily to allow light to reach the film when a photograph is being taken.
Shutter (n.) [ C ] (Window cover) 護窗板，百葉窗 A wooden cover on the outside of a window that prevents light or heat from going into a room or heat from leaving it.
// Shutters usually come in pairs and are hung like doors on hinges.
Shutter (n.) [ C ] (Window cover) （窗戶的）防護欄；捲簾鐵門 A metal covering that protects the windows and entrance of a shop from thieves when it is closed.
Shuttered (a.) Furnished with shutters.
Shuttle (n.) [C]（織機的）梭，梭子；（縫紉機的）擺梭；穿梭般來回的東西；（車輛、飛機等在兩地間的）短程穿梭運行；短程穿梭運輸線 An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.
Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours. -- Sandys.
Shuttle (n.) The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
Shuttle (n.) A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal. [R.]
{Shuttle box} (Weaving) A case at the end of a shuttle race, to receive the shuttle after it has passed the thread of the warp; also, one of a set of compartments containing shuttles with different colored threads, which are passed back and forth in a certain order, according to the pattern of the cloth woven.
{Shutten race}, A sort of shelf in a loom, beneath the warp, along which the shuttle passes; a channel or guide along which the shuttle passes in a sewing machine.
{Shuttle shell} (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus {Volva}, or {Radius}, having a smooth, spindle-shaped shell prolonged into a channel at each end.
Shuttle (v. i.) (v. t.) 短程穿梭般運送 [O]；使穿梭般來回移動 (v. i.) 短程穿梭般往返；穿梭般來回移動 To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.
I had to fly far and wide, shutting athwart the big Babel, wherever his calls and pauses had to be. -- Carlyle.
Shuttle (n.) Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: {shuttlecock}, {bird}, {birdie}, {shuttle}].
Shuttle (n.) Public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points.
Shuttle (n.) Bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads.
Shuttle (v.) Travel back and forth between two points.
Shuttlecock (n.) （踢）毽子；（打）羽毛球 A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
Shuttlecock (v. t.) (v. t.) 往返遞送；把……拋來拋去 (v. i.) 來回移動；走來走去 To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words. -- Thackeray.
Shuttlecock (n.) Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: {shuttlecock}, {bird}, {birdie}, {shuttle}].
Shuttlecock (v.) Send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock.
Shuttlecork (n.) See {Shuttlecock}.
Shuttlewise (adv.) Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
Shwan-pan (n.) See {Schwan-pan}.
Shy (a.) 怕羞的，羞怯的，靦腆的 [（+of）]；易受驚的，膽小的 [（+of）] Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
The horses of the army . . . were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting. -- Swift.
Shy (a.) Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
What makes you so shy, my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I. -- Arbuthnot.
The embarrassed look of shy distress And maidenly shamefacedness. -- Wordsworth.
Shy (a.) Cautious; wary; suspicious.
I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines. -- Boyle.
Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of thier successors. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Shy (a.) Inadequately supplied; short; lacking; as, the team is shy two players. [Slang]
Shy (a.) (Poker), owing money to the pot; -- in cases where an opponent's bet has exceeded a player's available stake or chips, but the player chooses to continue playing the hand before adding the required bet to the pot. [Slang]
{To fight shy} See under {Fight}, v. i.
Shy (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. {Shied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shying}.] [From {Shy}, a.] （馬等）驚退 [（+at）]；畏縮，膽怯 [（+away from）] To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.
Shy (v. t.) To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper. -- T. Hughes.
Shy (n.) （馬等的）驚退 A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
Shy (n.) A side throw; a throw; a fling. -- Thackeray.
If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must it seems, have a shy at somebody. -- Punch.
Shy (a.) Lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man" [syn: {diffident}, {shy}, {timid}, {unsure}] [ant: {confident}].
Shy (a.) Short; "eleven is one shy of a dozen."
Shy (a.) Wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; "shy of strangers."
Shy (n.) A quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman."
Shy (v.) Start suddenly, as from fright.
Shy (v.) Throw quickly.
Shied (imp. & p. p.) of Shy.
Shying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shy.
Shy (a.) To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.
Shy (v. t.) To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.
Shy (n.) A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
Shy (n.) A side throw; a throw; a fling.
Shyly (adv.) 羞怯地；膽怯地；小心地 In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.
Shyness (n.) 害臊，羞怯；膽怯 [U] The quality or state of being shy.
Shyster (n.) 【美】【口】不擇手段的律師，訟棍 A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way. [Slang, U.S.]
Shyster (n.) A person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods [syn: {shyster}, {pettifogger}].
Si () A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.
Siaga (n.) (Zool.) The ahu, or jairou.
Sialogogue (n.) (Med.) 催涎劑 An agent which promotes the flow of saliva. [syn: {sialagogue}].
Siamang (n.) （蘇門答臘和馬來半島的）合趾猴 A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.
Compare: Gibbon
Gibbon (n.) 【動】長臂猿 A small, slender tree-dwelling ape with long powerful arms and loud hooting calls, native to the forests of SE Asia.
Family Hylobatidae and genus Hylobates: several species.
Siamang (n.) Large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web [syn: {siamang}, {Hylobates syndactylus}, {Symphalangus syndactylus}].
Compare: Saliva
Saliva (n.) 涎，唾液 [U] Watery liquid secreted into the mouth by glands, providing lubrication for chewing and swallowing, and aiding digestion.
Compare: Lubrication
Lubrication (n.) 潤滑；加油 The action of applying a substance such as oil or grease to an engine or component so as to minimize friction and allow smooth movement.
‘Instruments with moving parts may require lubrication.’
Lubrication (n.) The action of making a process run smoothly.
‘Banks provide the necessary financial lubrication for any economy to grow.’
Lubrication (n.) (Informal) The process of making people convivial through drinking alcohol.
‘A good time to talk with some beer for social lubrication.’
‘People sitting putting the world to rights after more than sufficient lubrication.’
Siamese (a.) 暹羅的 Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language.
Siamese (n. sing. & pl.) 暹羅語 A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl., the people of Siam.