spade
US: /ˈspeɪd/
UK: /spˈeɪd/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
spade /speid/- danh từ
- (đánh bài) con pích
- cái mai, cái thuổng
- dao lạng mỡ cá voi
- (quân sự) phần đuôi (để chống xuống đất) của cỗ pháo
- to call a spade a spade
- nói thẳng nói thật, nói toạc móng heo, nói trắng
- ngoại động từ
- đào bằng mai
- lặng mỡ (cá voi)
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 [C] a garden tool with a broad metal blade and a long handle, used for digging: Turn the soil over with a spade. + The children took their buckets and spades to the beach.
Compare: SHOVEL
2 (spades) [pl., U] one of the four sets of cards (called SUITS) in a pack/deck of cards. The cards have a black design shaped like pointed leaves with short stems: the five / queen / ace of spades
3 [C] a card from the set of spades: You must play a spade if you have one.
Idioms: in spades (informal) in large amounts or to a great degree: He'd got his revenge now, and in spades.
more at CALL v.
Collocation
1 tool for digging
ADJ.
VERB + SPADE
PHRASES
2 playing card
cards two, three, etc. of ~s the four of hearts jack, queen, king, ace of ~s the ace of spades high, low ~ a low club black, red ~ You can't put a red five on a red six. pick up, take ~ Why didn't you pick up the king? have, hold ~ He knew his opponents held only spades and diamonds. lay/put down, play ~ She put down a joker. lead ~ You should have led a high spade. draw ~ Use your ace and king to draw the trumps. trump ~ He trumped my ace! ~ be trumps/wild/high Spades are trumps. Let's play again. This time twos are wild, aces high. ~ trick (in games like bridge and whist) We needed to take three more spade tricks. on a/the ~ You can play either a nine or a jack on a ten.
More information about PLAYING CARD
Concise dictionary
spades|spaded|spadingspeɪdnoun
+a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
+a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
+(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
verb
+dig (up) with a spade
