English-Thai Dictionary

brook

N ลำ ห้วย  ห้วย  ลำธาร  creek lam-huai

 

brook

VI ทน  อดทน  อดกลั้น  tolerate ton

 

brooklet

N ลำธาร เล็ก  lam-tharn-lek

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BROOK

n.[Gr. to rain, to pour, to flow. ] A small natural stream of water, or a current flowing from a spring or fountain less than a river. In some parts of America, run is used in a like sense; but run is also applied to larger streams than brook.

 

BROOK

v.t.[Gr. to eat, to grind the teeth. ] Literally, to chew or digest, as the Fr. digerir. Hence, To bear; to endure; to support; as, young men cannot brook restraint.

 

BROOK-LIME

n.[brook and lime. ] A plant, a species of Veronica, called becabunga, with blue flowers in loose lateral spikes.

 

BROOK-MINT

n.The water mint.

 

BROOK-WEED

n.A plant, water pimpernel, the Samolus.

 

BROOKY

a.Abounding with brooks.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BROOK

Brook, n. Etym: [OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. broc; akin to D. broek,LG. brok, marshy ground, OHG. pruoh, G. bruch marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. break, so as that it signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or brook, as well as a marsh. See Break, v. t.]

 

Defn: A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak.

 

BROOK

Brook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Brooking.] Etym: [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. br; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr, G. brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br, Goth. br, and L. frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker. ]

 

1. To use; to enjoy. [Obs. ] Chaucer.

 

2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint. Spenser. Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten Macaulay.

 

3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs. ] Sir J. Hawkins.

 

BROOKITE

Brook "ite, n. Etym: [Named from the English mineralogist, H.J.Brooke.] (Min. )

 

Defn: A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

 

BROOKLET

BROOKLET Brook "let, n.

 

Defn: A small brook.

 

BROOKLIME

BROOKLIME Brook "lime `, n. (Bot. )

 

Defn: A plant (Veronica Beccabunga ), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]

 

BROOK MINT

BROOK MINT Brook " mint `. (Bot. )

 

Defn: See Water mint.

 

BROOKSIDE

BROOKSIDE Brook "side `, n.

 

Defn: The bank of a brook.

 

BROOKWEED

BROOKWEED Brook "weed `, n. (Bot. )

 

Defn: A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi ) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

brook

brook 1 |bro͝ok brʊk | ▶noun a small stream. DERIVATIVES brook let |-lit |noun ORIGIN Old English brōc; related to Dutch broek and German Bruch ‘marsh. ’

 

brook

brook 2 |brʊk bro͝ok | ▶verb [ with obj. with negative ] formal tolerate or allow (something, typically dissent or opposition ): Jenny would brook no criticism of Matthew. ORIGIN Old English brūcan ‘use, possess, ’ of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bruiken and German brauchen. The current sense dates from the mid 16th cent. , a figurative use of an earlier sense ‘digest, stomach. ’

 

Brook, Peter

Brook |brʊk | (b.1925 ), English theatre director; full name Peter Stephen Paul Brook. As co-director of the Royal Shakespeare Company he earned critical acclaim with King Lear (1963 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970 ).

 

Brooke, Edward

Brooke, Edward |bro͝ok brʊk | (1919 –), US lawyer and politician; Edward William Brooke III. A Republican senator from Massachusetts 1967 –79, he was the first African-American senator popularly elected to the US Senate. He was awarded the Spingarn Medal in 1967.

 

Brooke, Rupert

Brooke, Rupert |brʊk bro͝ok | (1887 –1915 ), English poet; full name Rupert Chawner Brooke. He is noted for his wartime poetry, 1914 and Other Poems (1915 ).

 

Brook Farm

Brook Farm a historic commune that existed in the 1840s in West Roxbury, now a southwestern section of Boston in Massachusetts, associated with Margaret Fuller and other writers.

 

Brookfield

Brook field |ˈbro͝okˌfēld ˈbrʊkfild | a city in southeastern Wisconsin, west of Milwaukee; pop. 39,020 (est. 2008 ).

 

Brookhaven

Brook ha ven |ˈbro͝okˌhāvən ˈbrʊkheɪvən | a town in eastern Long Island in New York that includes the villages of Brookhaven and Stony Brook, home to a noted nuclear laboratory; pop. 488,800 (est. 2008 ).

 

Brooklands

Brook |lands |ˈbrʊkləndz | a motor-racing circuit near Weybridge in Surrey, England, opened in 1907. During the Second World War the course was converted for aircraft manufacture.

 

brooklime

brook lime |ˈbro͝okˌlīm ˈbrʊklaɪm | ▶noun a speedwell with smooth, fleshy leaves and deep blue flowers on long stalks. It grows in wet areas, where the stems take root or float in the water. [Genus Veronica, family Scrophulariaceae: several species, in particular V. beccabunga of Eurasia and the American brooklime (V. americana ).] ORIGIN Middle English broklemok, from brook 1 + hleomoce, the name of the plant in Old English.

 

Brookline

Brook line |ˈbro͝okˌlīn ˈbrʊklaɪn | a town in eastern Massachusetts, on the west side of Boston and almost surrounded by the city; pop. 54,896 (est. 2008 ).

 

Brooklyn

Brook lyn |ˈbro͝oklən ˈbrʊklən | a borough of New York City, at the southwestern corner of Long Island. DERIVATIVES Brook lyn ite noun

 

Brooklyn Bridge

Brook lyn Bridge a suspension bridge between southern Manhattan and northern Brooklyn (on Long Island ) in New York City. Constructed 1869 -1883, it was one of the period's engineering marvels and is celebrated in art and literature.

 

Brooklynese

Brook lyn ese |ˌbro͝okləˈnēz, -ˈnēs ˌbrʊkləˈniz | ▶noun a form of New York speech associated esp. with the borough of Brooklyn.

 

Brooklynite

Brooklynite |ˈbrʊklɪnʌɪt | ▶noun a native or inhabitant of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City.

 

Brooklyn Park

Brook lyn Park a city in southeastern Minnesota, north of Minneapolis; pop. 71,308 (est. 2008 ).

 

Brookner, Anita

Brook ner, Anita |ˈbro͝oknər ˈbrʊknər | (1928 –), English novelist and art historian. Notable works: Hotel du Lac (1984 ), Visitors (1997 ), The Bay of Angels (2001 ) and The Rules of Engagement (2003 ).

 

Brooks, Cleanth

Brooks, Cleanth |bro͝oks brʊks | (1906 –94 ), US teacher and critic. A leading proponent of the New Criticism movement, he edited The Southern Review 1935 –42 and taught at Yale University 1947 –75. Notable works: Modern Poetry and Tradition (1939 ) and The Well-Wrought Urn (1947 ).

 

Brooks, Garth

Brooks, Garth |bro͝oks brʊks | (1962 –), US country music singer and songwriter; full name Troyal Garth Brooks. His albums include No Fences (1990 ), Ropin' the Wind (1991 ), and Scarecrow (2001 ).

 

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Brooks, Gwendolyn |bro͝oks brʊks | (1917 – 2000 ), US poet and writer. She was the first African-American woman named as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress 1985 –86 and the first to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collected in Annie Allen (1949 ).

 

Brooks, Mel

Brooks, Mel |brʊks bro͝oks | (1927 –), US comedian, screenwriter, director, and actor; born Melvin Kaminsky. He was both writer and director for a number of movies, including The Producers (1967 ) and Young Frankenstein (1974 ), both of which he later adapted to the stage as musicals.

 

Brooks Range

Brooks Range |bro͝oks ˌbrʊks ˈreɪnʤ | a mountain chain that extends across northern Alaska. It is the northwestern end of the Rocky Mountains; the North Slope lies on its north.

 

brook trout

brook trout ▶noun see char 4.

 

brookweed

brook |weed |ˈbrʊkwiːd | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a small white-flowered European plant which grows in wet ground, typically near the sea. ●Samolus valerandi, family Primulaceae.

 

Oxford Dictionary

brook

brook 1 |brʊk | ▶noun a small stream. DERIVATIVES brooklet |-lɪt |noun ORIGIN Old English brōc, of unknown origin; related to Dutch broek and German Bruch ‘marsh ’.

 

brook

brook 2 |brʊk | ▶verb [ with obj. ] [ with negative ] formal tolerate or allow (something, typically dissent or opposition ): Jenny would brook no criticism of Matthew. ORIGIN Old English brūcan ‘use, possess ’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bruiken and German brauchen. The current sense dates from the mid 16th cent. , a figurative use of an earlier sense ‘digest, stomach ’.

 

Brook, Peter

Brook |brʊk | (b.1925 ), English theatre director; full name Peter Stephen Paul Brook. As co-director of the Royal Shakespeare Company he earned critical acclaim with King Lear (1963 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970 ).

 

Brooke, Edward

Brooke, Edward |bro͝ok brʊk | (1919 –), US lawyer and politician; Edward William Brooke III. A Republican senator from Massachusetts 1967 –79, he was the first African-American senator popularly elected to the US Senate. He was awarded the Spingarn Medal in 1967.

 

Brooke, Rupert

Brooke |brʊk | (1887 –1915 ), English poet; full name Rupert Chawner Brooke. He is most famous for his wartime poetry 1914 and Other Poems (1915 ). He died while on naval service in the Mediterranean.

 

Brook Farm

Brook Farm a historic commune that existed in the 1840s in West Roxbury, now a southwestern section of Boston in Massachusetts, associated with Margaret Fuller and other writers.

 

Brookfield

Brook field |ˈbro͝okˌfēld ˈbrʊkfild | a city in southeastern Wisconsin, west of Milwaukee; pop. 39,020 (est. 2008 ).

 

Brookhaven

Brook ha ven |ˈbro͝okˌhāvən ˈbrʊkheɪvən | a town in eastern Long Island in New York that includes the villages of Brookhaven and Stony Brook, home to a noted nuclear laboratory; pop. 488,800 (est. 2008 ).

 

Brooklands

Brook |lands |ˈbrʊkləndz | a motor-racing circuit near Weybridge in Surrey, England, opened in 1907. During the Second World War the course was converted for aircraft manufacture.

 

brooklime

brook |lime |ˈbrʊklʌɪm | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a Eurasian speedwell with smooth fleshy leaves and deep blue flowers on long stalks. It grows in wet areas, where the stems take root or float in the water. ●Veronica beccabunga, family Scrophulariaceae. ORIGIN Middle English broklemok, from brook 1 + hleomoce, the name of the plant in Old English.

 

Brookline

Brook line |ˈbro͝okˌlīn ˈbrʊklaɪn | a town in eastern Massachusetts, on the west side of Boston and almost surrounded by the city; pop. 54,896 (est. 2008 ).

 

Brooklyn

Brook |lyn |ˈbrʊklɪn | a borough of New York City, at the south-western corner of Long Island. The Brooklyn Bridge (1869 –83 ) links Long Island with lower Manhattan.

 

Brooklyn Bridge

Brook lyn Bridge a suspension bridge between southern Manhattan and northern Brooklyn (on Long Island ) in New York City. Constructed 1869 -1883, it was one of the period's engineering marvels and is celebrated in art and literature.

 

Brooklynese

Brook ¦lyn |ese |brʊklɪˈniːz | ▶noun [ mass noun ] an uncultivated form of New York speech associated especially with the borough of Brooklyn.

 

Brooklynite

Brooklynite |ˈbrʊklɪnʌɪt | ▶noun a native or inhabitant of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City.

 

Brooklyn Park

Brook lyn Park a city in southeastern Minnesota, north of Minneapolis; pop. 71,308 (est. 2008 ).

 

Brookner, Anita

Brookner, Anita |ˈbrʊknə | (b.1928 ), English novelist and art historian. She won the Booker Prize for Hotel du Lac (1984 ).

 

Brooks, Cleanth

Brooks |brʊks | (1906 –94 ), American teacher and critic. A leading proponent of the New Criticism movement, he edited The Southern Review (1935 –42 ) and taught at Yale University (1947 –75 ). Notable works: Modern Poetry and Tradition (1939 ).

 

Brooks, Garth

Brooks, Garth |bro͝oks brʊks | (1962 –), US country music singer and songwriter; full name Troyal Garth Brooks. His albums include No Fences (1990 ), Ropin' the Wind (1991 ), and Scarecrow (2001 ).

 

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Brooks, Gwendolyn |bro͝oks brʊks | (1917 – 2000 ), US poet and writer. She was the first African-American woman named as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress 1985 –86 and the first to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collected in Annie Allen (1949 ).

 

Brooks, Mel

Brooks |brʊks | (b.1927 ), American film director and comic actor; born Melvin Kaminsky. His debut The Producers (1967 ) was followed by films including the spoof western Blazing Saddles (1974 ).

 

Brooks Range

Brooks Range |bro͝oks ˌbrʊks ˈreɪnʤ | a mountain chain that extends across northern Alaska. It is the northwestern end of the Rocky Mountains; the North Slope lies on its north.

 

brook trout

brook trout ▶noun N. Amer. the brook charr. See charr.

 

brookweed

brook |weed |ˈbrʊkwiːd | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a small white-flowered European plant which grows in wet ground, typically near the sea. ●Samolus valerandi, family Primulaceae.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

brook

brook 1 noun a babbling brook: stream, creek, streamlet, rivulet, rill, brooklet, runnel; Brit. bourn, burn, beck.

 

brook

brook 2 verb formal we brook no violence: tolerate, allow, stand, bear, abide, put up with, endure; accept, permit, countenance; informal stomach, stand for, hack; archaic suffer.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

brook

brook 1 noun they dozed beside the gurgling brook: stream, small river, streamlet, rivulet, rill, brooklet, runnel, runlet, freshet, gill; N. English beck; S. English bourn; Austral. /NZ billabong; Scottish & N. English burn; N. Amer. & Austral. /NZ creek.

 

brook

brook 2 verb the authorities would brook no delay: tolerate, allow, stand, bear, abide, stomach, swallow, put up with, go along with, endure, suffer, withstand, cope with; accept, permit, admit of, countenance; Scottish thole; informal stand for, stick, hack.

 

Duden Dictionary

Brooklyn

Brook lyn Eigenname |ˈbrʊklɪn |Stadtteil von New York

 

Spanish Dictionary

brook

brook nombre masculino dep En equitación, obstáculo de la carrera que consiste en un foso lleno de agua .Se pronuncia 'bruk' .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

brook

brook 1 /brʊk /名詞 複 ～s /-s /C 小川 (!river, streamより小さいものをいう ) .～́ tr ò ut 〘魚 〙カワマス (speckled trout ).

 

brook

brook 2 動詞 他動詞 ｟かたく ｠〈介入 反対など 〉を容認する .

 

Brooklyn

Brook lyn /brʊ́klɪn /名詞 ブルックリン 〘New York市の5つの区の1つ 〙.～̀ Br í dge 〖the ～〗ブルックリン橋 〘New York市East Riverにかかるつり橋 〙.