billet1
KK: [ˈbɪlɪt]
DJ: [ˈbilit]
n.[C]
- 向軍人提供住宿處的書面命令
The townspeople received
billets ordering them to lodge the regiment overnight.
鎮民接到命令,要為一團官兵提供一夜住宿。
- (軍營以外的)士兵住宿處
The old mansion served as the soldiers'
billet for a week.
士兵在那所古宅裡住了一個星期。
- 給海員指定的睡舖
- 職位,工作,地位
He landed a lucrative
billet with a publishing house.
他在一家出版社裡謀到一個報酬很高的職位。
- 【古】短簡,便條
vt.
- 分配(士兵等)住宿地[(+on)]
The captain
billeted his soldiers on old Mrs. Smith.
那上尉分派士兵住在史密斯老太太的房子裡。
- 把提供住宿處的命令送交
- 委派,任命
vi.
- 投宿;駐紮
billet2
KK: [ˈbɪlɪt]
DJ: [ˈbilit]
n.[C]
- 作燃料用的小木條
- 木棒;木棍
- 【冶】鋼坯;坯料
- 短金屬條
- 【建】錯齒式粉刷線腳
- (馬鞍)皮帶的扣環部分
billet1
n.
a civilian house where soldiers are lodged temporarily.
v.
(billets, billeting, billeted)
lodge (soldiers) in a civilian house.
Etymology
ME (orig. denoting a short written document, later a written order requiring a householder to lodge the bearer): from Anglo-Norman Fr. billette, dimin. of bille (see bill1).
billet2
n.
- a thick piece of wood.
▸a small bar of metal for further processing.
- Architecture each of a series of short cylindrical pieces inserted at intervals in Norman decorative mouldings.
- Heraldry a rectangle placed vertically as a charge.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. billette and billot, diminutives of bille ‘tree trunk’, from med. L. billa, billus ‘branch, trunk’, prob. of Celtic origin.