rein 的 3 个定义
- Often reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- any of certain other straps or thongs forming part of a harness, as a checkrein.
- any means of curbing, controlling, or directing; check; restraint.
- reins, the controlling or directing power: the reins of government.
- to check or guide by exerting pressure on a bridle bit by means of the reins.
- to curb; restrain; control.
- to obey the reins: a horse that reins well.
- to rein a horse or other animal.
rein 近义词
restraint, control
restrain, control
更多rein例句
- SEATTLE — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will step down as chief executive of the e-commerce giant, turning over the reins to the company’s longtime cloud-computing boss Andy Jassy.
- Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped back from their roles as CEO and president of Alphabet in 2019, handing the reins to Sundar Pichai, a trusted deputy of 15 years.
- Mayor Todd Gloria took the reins at City Hall last Thursday having already vowed to find funding to keep the shelter open into the new year.
- Mayor Todd Gloria took the reins at City Hall on Thursday, becoming the first person of color and member of the LGBT community elected to the city’s top post.
- When he took the reins in 2018, the 1,470-store chain made becoming an e-commerce player a priority.
- Kim Jong Un, who assumed power on the death of his father, had given uncle Jang nearly free rein to handle relations with Beijing.
- In retirement, Frank is consciously trying to pare down and rein in.
- Congress itself ironically recognized as much in its effort to rein in presidential use of force after Vietnam.
- There are times where we do takes that are so crazy that we have to rein it in.
- He organized a bipartisan effort to rein in the National Security Agency that came within a few votes of passing the House.
- He rode easily, with a loose rein, and he waved his disengaged hand the instant he caught sight of the white faces.
- To rein up was impossible, to go down would have been almost certain death to horse and man.
- The rein was fastened to a piece of split rattan drawn through the animal's nose.
- Without drawing rein, they pushed on to Busseerutgunge, crossed the river Sai and neared the village of Bunnee.
- A little way beyond the poplar-grove Piegan drew rein, and held up one hand.