deadwood 的定义
- the dead branches on a tree; dead branches or trees.
- useless or burdensome persons or things: He cut the deadwood from his staff.
- unnecessary words, phrases, or exposition; expendable verbiage: This could be a thoughtful and incisive essay if you get rid of the deadwood.
- Nautical. a solid construction, serving only as reinforcement, located between the keel of a vessel and the stem or sternpost.
- Bowling. pins remaining on the alley after having been knocked down by the ball.
- Cards. Rummy.cards in a hand that have not been included in sets and are usually counted as points against the holder.Poker.cards that have been discarded.
deadwood 近义词
等同于 nonessential
等同于 fifth wheel
deadwood 的近义词 7 个
更多deadwood例句
- I thought for a minute that I had put on my Deadwood DVD by mistake.
- In 2004, I was in grad school, and Deadwood, The Wire, and The Sopranos were all on HBO.
- For the time being, the girls are living with friends in Deadwood, South Dakota.
- Milch, who wrote such superb shows as NYPD Blue and Deadwood and also penned Luck, is a disgrace as well.
- Ferguson later quipped, "Better plywood leadership than deadwood leadership!"
- Mollett's theory is that it is better to cut away every inch of deadwood which is not absolutely necessary for preventing leeway.
- Three hours later Billy and the sobered tenderfoot pulled into Deadwood.
- For the moment Napoleon's little neighbor was troubled by no sense of duty; the only question was how to reach Deadwood.
- Several months before, it had been the custom to send a “treasure-coach” twice a week from Deadwood to Sidney, Nebraska.
- We had a premonition that Elise wouldn't want the deadwood of Jimmie's former Division.