picket

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch,
spotter, scout
• Derivationally related forms:
spot (for: spotter), watch (for: watch), look out (for: lookout)
• Hypernyms:
watchman, watcher, security guard
2. a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
detachment
3. a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
• Hypernyms:
demonstrator, protester
4. a vehicle performing sentinel duty
• Topics:
military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
• Hypernyms:
military vehicle
• Hyponyms:
picket boat, picket ship
5. a wooden strip forming part of a fence
• Syn:
pale
• Hypernyms:
strip
• Part Holonyms:
picket fence, paling
6. a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
• Syn:
piquet
• Hypernyms:
torture, torturing

II - verb

1. serve as pickets or post pickets (Freq. 1)
- picket a business to protest the layoffs
• Hypernyms:
demonstrate, march
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
2. fasten with a picket (Freq. 1)
- picket the goat
• Hypernyms:
fasten, fix, secure
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  piquet, pale, lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout