fodder — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   مرادفات

   forageprovender

   أمثلة

   The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.

2. A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • تاريخي
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times.

3. Tracing paper.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • لغة دارجة
   • غير معدود

4. Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • مجازي
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.

5. The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   In (part of) Shelley's poem Ozymandias is a "crumbling statue". If this is the explanation then the clue is not a reverse cryptic in the same was^([sic]) as GEGS -> SCRAMBLED EGGS but a normal clue where where^([sic]) the fodder and anagrind are *both* indirect.

   Insane Roman! (4) […] Look in -sane Roman and you'll uncover NERO, the insane Roman. Dovetailing the signpost — in — with the hidden fodder — sane Roman — is inspired, an embedded style of signposting.

6. People considered to have negligible value and easily available or expendable.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   Innocent people who are arrested become fodder for the justice system.

   cannon fodder

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   The Russian government was not interested in who will pay the mortgage or take care of his pregnant wife. It simply wanted more fodder for its war.

فعل

1. To feed animals (with fodder).

   الاستعمال

   • dialectal

   أمثلة

   Straw will do well enough to fodder them with

   "When I had foddered the horse, I went into the barn and took the handle of an old rake to chase the dog out with."

اسم

1. soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire

   مرادفات

   cannon fodderfresh fish

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   soldier

2. coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   feedprovender

فعل

1. give fodder (to domesticated animals)

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   feedgive