rut
US: /ˈɹət/
UK: /ɹˈʌt/
UK: /ɹˈʌt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
rut /rʌt/
- danh từ
- sự động đực
- sự động đực
- nội động từ
- động đực
- động đực
- danh từ
- vết lún (của bánh xe)
- vết đường mòn ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
- to move in a rut: đi theo con đường mòn
- (kỹ thuật) máng, rãnh
- ngoại động từ
- làm cho có vết lún; để lại những vết lún trên (đường)
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [C] a deep track that a wheel makes in soft ground: It was difficult to walk in the muddy ruts left by the tractor.
2 [C] a boring way of life that does not change: I gave up my job because I felt I was stuck in a rut. + If you don't go out and meet new people, it's easy to get into a rut.
3 [U] (also the rut) [sing.] the time of year when male animals, especially deer, become sexually active: stags fighting during the rut
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Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 groove, furrow, wheel-mark, track, trough:
In the winter the ruts in the lane fill with water and freeze, making driving difficult
2 pattern, habit, routine, groove, grind, treadmill, dead end, Colloq rat race:
After 27 years as a horse groom, I'm beginning to feel I'm stuck in a rut.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
muddy | deep | cart, tractor, wagon
PREP.
in a ~
(figurative) My job bores me?I feel I'm in a rut.
| into a ~
(figurative) I'd got into a rut, cooking the same things week after week.
| out of a ~
(figurative) Moving abroad gave her the chance to get out of a rut.
Concise English dictionary
rutted|rutting|rutsrʌt
noun
+a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
+a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
+applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
verb
+be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
+hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
