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scend

/send/US // sɛnd //

补足,补习班,补缺,补给

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    • : to heave in a swell.
    • : to lurch forward from the motion of a heavy sea.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the heaving motion of a vessel.
    • : the forward impulse imparted by the motion of a sea against a vessel.

Examples

  • Scend, send, n. the upward angular displacement of a vessel—opposed to Pitch, the correlative downward movement.

  • In an hour and a half after this, we reached and crossed the river Scend, about two miles from the top of the ghaut.

  • This fort stands on the river Scend; and two sides of it are protected and guarded by that river, which is deep.

  • The immense volume of water thrown forward by the last scend of the ship had burst the lee door of the forecastle.