paddle
US: /ˈpædəɫ/
UK: /pˈædəl/
UK: /pˈædəl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
paddle /'pædl/
- danh từ
- cái giầm; cánh (guồng nước)
- double paddle: mái xuồng chèo cả hai đầu
- cuộc bơi xuồng, sự chèo xuồng
- (động vật học), (như) flipper
- chèo bằng giầm
- cái giầm; cánh (guồng nước)
- nội động từ
- chèo thuyền bằng giầm
- chèo nhẹ nhàng
- lội nước
- vầy, vọc, nghịch bằng ngón tay
- to paddle in (on, about) something: vầy một vật gì
- đi chập chững (trẻ con)
- to paddle one's own canoe
- (xem) canoe
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
1 [C] a short pole with a flat wide part at one or both ends, that you hold in both hands and use for moving a small boat, especially a CANOE, through water
Compare: OAR
2 [C] a tool or part of a machine shaped like a paddle, especially one used for mixing food
3 (a paddle) [sing.] (BrE) an act or period of walking in shallow water with bare feet: Let's go for a paddle.
See also -
4 (AmE) a bat used for playing TABLE TENNIS
5 (AmE) a piece of wood with a handle, used for hitting children as a punishment
Idioms see CREEK
+ verb
1 [usually +adv./prep.] to move a small boat through water using a paddle: [V] We paddled downstream for about a mile. + [VN] We paddled the canoe along the coast.
2 (BrE) (AmE wade) [V] to walk or stand with bare feet in shallow water in the sea, a lake, etc: The children have gone paddling.
3 [V] to swim with short movements of your hands or feet up and down
4 [VN] (AmE) to hit a child with a flat piece of wood as a punishment
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 oar, sweep, scull:
A 'crab' occurs when you catch the water with the paddle blade on the return stroke.
v.
2 row, scull, oar:
Deftly she paddled the canoe over to the pier.
3 wade:
The children were paddling at the water's edge.
4 spank, paddywhack, thrash, beat, whip, flog:
Dad threatened to paddle me if he caught me playing hookey again.
Collocation dictionary
ADV.
downstream, upstream | frantically, furiously
He paddled furiously against the current.
| slowly
Concise English dictionary
paddles|paddled|paddling'pædl
noun
+small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games
+a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
+an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board
+a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat
verb
+propel with a paddle
+play in or as if in water, as of small children
+swim like a dog in shallow water
+walk unsteadily
+give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
+stir with a paddle
