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单词 scat
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scat1

verbscats, scatted, scatting skatskæt
informal
  • no object, usually in imperative Go away; leave.

    〈非正式〉走开,离开

    Scat! Leave me alone

    走开!别管我。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There's no political favoritism here, so scat, you malicious muckrakers.
    • Vyk exclaimed stopping Darryn from his own question and then telling his driver to scat.
    Synonyms
    go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight

Origin

Mid 19th century: perhaps an abbreviation of scatter, or perhaps from the sound of a hiss (used to drive an animal away) + -cat.

Rhymes

at, bat, brat, cat, chat, cravat, drat, expat, fat, flat, frat, gat, gnat, hat, hereat, high-hat, howzat, lat, mat, matt, matte, Montserrat, Nat, outsat, pat, pit-a-pat, plait, plat, prat, Rabat, rat, rat-tat, Sadat, sat, Sebat, shabbat, shat, skat, slat, spat, splat, sprat, stat, Surat, tat, that, thereat, tit-for-tat, vat, whereat

scat2

(also scat singing)
nounPlural scats skatskæt
mass noun
  • Improvised jazz singing in which the voice is used in imitation of an instrument.

    (爵士乐中即兴的模仿乐器声的)拟声唱法

    as modifier a scat rendition
    scat samples
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Teal is an inventive scat singer; her handling of slow material has a smoky sensuality coupled with a full, luxurious sound that never loses its richness.
    • Debbie has one of those overly gospel voices that requires her to hit every other note in long scat successions before she finally lands on the one directly linked to the melody.
    • The touchstone sound is hip hop, but Martin has dropped the rap for a jazz scat style which recalls British singer Cleveland Watkiss.
    • Discovered in Missouri, Shooby's musical style is imitating a trumpet in a bizarre improvised scat over a variety of music.
    • He exhibited his trademark stream-of-consciousness lyrics and scat singing during solos, proving he is as original and innovative as ever.
    • The duo's scat lyrics and drum-n-bass delivery really temper the album, preventing it from becoming too soft at points.
    • Grant's definition indicates that scat singing, because it is not previously composed, is more directly connected to music than is vocalese.
    • Mel Collins' squawking sax combines with Boz Burrell's scat singing on ‘Peoria’ to produce the closest they ever got to funk.
    • It's not a completely original approach - many songs have nonsensical lyrics or scat effects - but strong melodies like these deserve thoughtful lyrics.
    • In particular the album's opening few moments feature some fairly rank scat singing which had me jumping for the skip button.
    • In ‘Crootey Songo,’ Kaufman uses the techniques of scat singing to create a poem that relies heavily on sound and less on meaning.
    • Her first album was arranged by a son of Cuba's legendary scat singer and jazz trumpeter Bobby Carcasses.
    • Sharny is an accomplished and well-known jazz performer who has been singing on the Australian jazz scene since 1976, and she is renowned for her amazing scat singing.
    • While ‘Silent Night’ is executed in typical ho-hum fashion, Owen adds a delicious smattering of scat to a jazzed-up ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.’
    • Armstrong's scat singing also influenced the singing technique of bebop innovator Dizzy Gillespie, who first began recording bebop in 1944 with saxophonist Charlie Parker.
    • He revealed a rougher side, first singing garbled scat vocals into his trumpet, and then using actual words, which was unexpected from an abstract act.
    • Thus vocalese is distinctly different from scat singing both because it is arranged and composed rather than improvised, and because it relies on language rather than simply sound.
    • Instead of climbing back down to the seat with many grunts and exclamations, Philip stayed perched on the piano bench and started to sing scat.
    • He was mainly influenced by sound poetry, and the scat vocals of Jazz.
    • She was practically born backstage - her father is the respected Edinburgh scat singer Freddie King; her mother is a stage manager.
verbscats, scatted, scatting skatskæt
[no object]
  • Sing using the voice in imitation of an instrument.

    (爵士乐中即兴的模仿乐器声的)拟声唱法

    she scats and harmonizes simultaneously
    some gentle scatting
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was dancing in his chair and clapping and beating out rhythms in the air, singing and scatting and engaging in repartee with the performers.
    • Nightworks is their debut album, redolent with thick house beats, whooshey keyboards, horns, saxes, scatting…
    • This singer has a penchant for scatting and surprising material, but where he has an astonishingly pure voice, hers has more feeling.
    • Nelly is a startled-looking woman in a business suit who nervously takes the microphone and begins scatting.
    • With perfect clarity and an enviable talent for scatting and freestyling, his vocal range has been described as ‘tremendous’.
    • The topline acts were good, but I really enjoyed the black Brazilian woman scatting and singing jazz standards in fluent Finnish.
    • Despite a little cool Latin scatting and standards-cruising, the mood is low-key - and the lost-love song Gloomy Sunday is terrifying.
    • At any moment he's liable to surprise you with a riff on his trumpet or break out into spontaneous scatting, tapping his foot to a mental rhythm.
    • She was a jazz singer and good at scatting and that's where I got some of my voice improvisations in terms of how to carry my voice.
    • The man in the video starts scatting, familiar and quaint at first but soon his voice starts evoking everything from Appalachian folk to an angel-dust fit.
    • As Sclavis and Collignon explore the first of several ecstatic improvised conversations, whirling folk dances turn into warp-speed vocal scatting against electronic echoes.
    • A trademark 10-minute Booker T and the MGs-style funk jam closes the record, once some jazzy scatting is out of the way.
    • Joao's extraordinary expressive range reached from guttural croaks to coloratura trilling, with scatting and vocalizing in between.
    • Jimmy's jazzing up the song, scatting and improvising - it's almost unrecognizable at times.
    • In doing so, he proves himself to be one of the more expressive singers around, free of melismatic acrobatics and, fortunately, scatting.
    • Would Berry Gordy have allowed bizarre scatting on the outro of a tune, or have allowed a track like ‘Run Run Run’ on a 1967 Motown album?
    • Scatting in some West African language, and jiving across the stage, Redman showed he's the madiba of jazz.

Origin

1920s: probably imitative.

scat3

nounPlural scats skatskæt
mass noun
  • Droppings, especially those of carnivorous mammals.

    (尤指食肉动物的)粪便

    fresh bear scat
    count noun samples of scats from otters
    wolf scats
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Every mile, it seemed, Bruscino had a story of a bear encounter, or we saw evidence of bear activity - branches torn from fruit trees, seed-larded scat.
    • But Bolgiano and other wildlife authorities are convinced from scat, tracks, and the occasional carcass that the cats are making a comeback.
    • This is their idea of a holiday and they've paid $1, 800 U.S. to scour these rocks for scat from raccoons, pygmy skunks, ocelots, coyotes and jaguars.
    • Bear signs are everywhere in Bradwell Bay, from fresh footprints to scat to mauled trees, marked by hears to show territorial boundaries.
    • Other animals are known to use scat for surprising purposes; larval tortoise beetles pile fecal shields on their backs to protect them from predators.
    • Territories are not defended but are vigorously marked with scat, urine, gland secretions, ground scrapes and ‘scratching post’ scrapes.
    • Using scat allows sample collection without disturbing the focal animal.
    • Avoid bears by looking for their signs: fresh diggings, bear scats, tracks, and salmon carcasses.
    • A much higher proportion of weasel scats, of partially consumed rodents, and of weasels themselves in our boxes occur in the fencerow habitat than in forest or edge.
    • Mud crab exoskeletal remains were abundant in the scat of river otter of the upper Parker River estuary.
    • Another approach that is likely to gain popularity in the future is individual identification using DNA extracted from tiger scats or hair.
    • There was otter scat on the bank, coyote tracks on the ice, and where the bridge had arched the flow in some lost age, a recently demolished beaver dam.
    • There were no paw prints and no fresh scat, nothing at all to indicate that a cougar had cubbed in these hills that summer.
    • From his work analyzing hormones and DNA in animal feces, Wasser knew that scat could provide a wealth of information about wildlife populations.
    • Sign surveys also were conducted throughout each session by searching for scats, tracks, feeding signs, and dens within and along the paths between trap stations.
    • This is done by biologists to make sure they have the right scat from the right animal.
    • Over several weeks, I collected carnivore scat similar to that I had seen gathered by waxbills and stored it in a freezer.
    • Animals can be identified by footprints, scat, sometimes scent, fur, and their habits.
    • The wolves proved very clever and I was only able to see a few green shapes in a night scope and get some detailed pictures of scat and prints.
    • Today they haven't had any luck, but tomorrow they'll continue to check for scats, tracks and traps so they can at least get a better understanding of Mexico's carnivores.

Origin

1950s: from Greek skōr, skat- 'dung'.

scat4

nounPlural scats skatskæt
  • A small deep-bodied silvery fish that lives in inshore and estuarine waters of the Indo-Pacific.

    金钱鱼

    Family Scatophagidae: several genera and species. See also argus (sense 3 of the noun)

Origin

1960s: abbreviation of modern Latin Scatophagidae, from Greek skatophagos 'dung-eating' (because the fish is often found beside sewage outlets).

scat1

verbskætskat
informal
  • no object, usually in imperative Go away; leave.

    〈非正式〉走开,离开

    Scat! Leave me alone

    走开!别管我。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There's no political favoritism here, so scat, you malicious muckrakers.
    • Vyk exclaimed stopping Darryn from his own question and then telling his driver to scat.
    Synonyms
    go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight

Origin

Mid 19th century: perhaps an abbreviation of scatter, or perhaps from the sound of a hiss (used to drive an animal away) + -cat.

scat2

(also scat singing)
nounskatskæt
  • Improvised jazz singing in which the voice is used in imitation of an instrument.

    (爵士乐中即兴的模仿乐器声的)拟声唱法

    as modifier a scat rendition
    scat samples
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Discovered in Missouri, Shooby's musical style is imitating a trumpet in a bizarre improvised scat over a variety of music.
    • Teal is an inventive scat singer; her handling of slow material has a smoky sensuality coupled with a full, luxurious sound that never loses its richness.
    • He was mainly influenced by sound poetry, and the scat vocals of Jazz.
    • While ‘Silent Night’ is executed in typical ho-hum fashion, Owen adds a delicious smattering of scat to a jazzed-up ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.’
    • Thus vocalese is distinctly different from scat singing both because it is arranged and composed rather than improvised, and because it relies on language rather than simply sound.
    • She was practically born backstage - her father is the respected Edinburgh scat singer Freddie King; her mother is a stage manager.
    • Mel Collins' squawking sax combines with Boz Burrell's scat singing on ‘Peoria’ to produce the closest they ever got to funk.
    • In ‘Crootey Songo,’ Kaufman uses the techniques of scat singing to create a poem that relies heavily on sound and less on meaning.
    • In particular the album's opening few moments feature some fairly rank scat singing which had me jumping for the skip button.
    • The duo's scat lyrics and drum-n-bass delivery really temper the album, preventing it from becoming too soft at points.
    • Armstrong's scat singing also influenced the singing technique of bebop innovator Dizzy Gillespie, who first began recording bebop in 1944 with saxophonist Charlie Parker.
    • Her first album was arranged by a son of Cuba's legendary scat singer and jazz trumpeter Bobby Carcasses.
    • Sharny is an accomplished and well-known jazz performer who has been singing on the Australian jazz scene since 1976, and she is renowned for her amazing scat singing.
    • He revealed a rougher side, first singing garbled scat vocals into his trumpet, and then using actual words, which was unexpected from an abstract act.
    • Debbie has one of those overly gospel voices that requires her to hit every other note in long scat successions before she finally lands on the one directly linked to the melody.
    • Instead of climbing back down to the seat with many grunts and exclamations, Philip stayed perched on the piano bench and started to sing scat.
    • It's not a completely original approach - many songs have nonsensical lyrics or scat effects - but strong melodies like these deserve thoughtful lyrics.
    • He exhibited his trademark stream-of-consciousness lyrics and scat singing during solos, proving he is as original and innovative as ever.
    • Grant's definition indicates that scat singing, because it is not previously composed, is more directly connected to music than is vocalese.
    • The touchstone sound is hip hop, but Martin has dropped the rap for a jazz scat style which recalls British singer Cleveland Watkiss.
verbskatskæt
[no object]
  • Sing using the voice in imitation of an instrument.

    (爵士乐中即兴的模仿乐器声的)拟声唱法

    she scats and harmonizes simultaneously
    some gentle scatting
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was dancing in his chair and clapping and beating out rhythms in the air, singing and scatting and engaging in repartee with the performers.
    • In doing so, he proves himself to be one of the more expressive singers around, free of melismatic acrobatics and, fortunately, scatting.
    • Jimmy's jazzing up the song, scatting and improvising - it's almost unrecognizable at times.
    • Would Berry Gordy have allowed bizarre scatting on the outro of a tune, or have allowed a track like ‘Run Run Run’ on a 1967 Motown album?
    • She was a jazz singer and good at scatting and that's where I got some of my voice improvisations in terms of how to carry my voice.
    • With perfect clarity and an enviable talent for scatting and freestyling, his vocal range has been described as ‘tremendous’.
    • A trademark 10-minute Booker T and the MGs-style funk jam closes the record, once some jazzy scatting is out of the way.
    • The man in the video starts scatting, familiar and quaint at first but soon his voice starts evoking everything from Appalachian folk to an angel-dust fit.
    • Despite a little cool Latin scatting and standards-cruising, the mood is low-key - and the lost-love song Gloomy Sunday is terrifying.
    • The topline acts were good, but I really enjoyed the black Brazilian woman scatting and singing jazz standards in fluent Finnish.
    • Nightworks is their debut album, redolent with thick house beats, whooshey keyboards, horns, saxes, scatting…
    • Nelly is a startled-looking woman in a business suit who nervously takes the microphone and begins scatting.
    • At any moment he's liable to surprise you with a riff on his trumpet or break out into spontaneous scatting, tapping his foot to a mental rhythm.
    • This singer has a penchant for scatting and surprising material, but where he has an astonishingly pure voice, hers has more feeling.
    • Scatting in some West African language, and jiving across the stage, Redman showed he's the madiba of jazz.
    • Joao's extraordinary expressive range reached from guttural croaks to coloratura trilling, with scatting and vocalizing in between.
    • As Sclavis and Collignon explore the first of several ecstatic improvised conversations, whirling folk dances turn into warp-speed vocal scatting against electronic echoes.

Origin

1920s: probably imitative.

scat3

nounskatskæt
  • Droppings, especially those of carnivorous mammals.

    (尤指食肉动物的)粪便

    fresh bear scat
    count noun samples of scats from otters
    wolf scats
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A much higher proportion of weasel scats, of partially consumed rodents, and of weasels themselves in our boxes occur in the fencerow habitat than in forest or edge.
    • Over several weeks, I collected carnivore scat similar to that I had seen gathered by waxbills and stored it in a freezer.
    • Mud crab exoskeletal remains were abundant in the scat of river otter of the upper Parker River estuary.
    • This is done by biologists to make sure they have the right scat from the right animal.
    • This is their idea of a holiday and they've paid $1, 800 U.S. to scour these rocks for scat from raccoons, pygmy skunks, ocelots, coyotes and jaguars.
    • Avoid bears by looking for their signs: fresh diggings, bear scats, tracks, and salmon carcasses.
    • Another approach that is likely to gain popularity in the future is individual identification using DNA extracted from tiger scats or hair.
    • There were no paw prints and no fresh scat, nothing at all to indicate that a cougar had cubbed in these hills that summer.
    • Territories are not defended but are vigorously marked with scat, urine, gland secretions, ground scrapes and ‘scratching post’ scrapes.
    • Animals can be identified by footprints, scat, sometimes scent, fur, and their habits.
    • But Bolgiano and other wildlife authorities are convinced from scat, tracks, and the occasional carcass that the cats are making a comeback.
    • Other animals are known to use scat for surprising purposes; larval tortoise beetles pile fecal shields on their backs to protect them from predators.
    • Using scat allows sample collection without disturbing the focal animal.
    • Today they haven't had any luck, but tomorrow they'll continue to check for scats, tracks and traps so they can at least get a better understanding of Mexico's carnivores.
    • The wolves proved very clever and I was only able to see a few green shapes in a night scope and get some detailed pictures of scat and prints.
    • Bear signs are everywhere in Bradwell Bay, from fresh footprints to scat to mauled trees, marked by hears to show territorial boundaries.
    • Sign surveys also were conducted throughout each session by searching for scats, tracks, feeding signs, and dens within and along the paths between trap stations.
    • Every mile, it seemed, Bruscino had a story of a bear encounter, or we saw evidence of bear activity - branches torn from fruit trees, seed-larded scat.
    • From his work analyzing hormones and DNA in animal feces, Wasser knew that scat could provide a wealth of information about wildlife populations.
    • There was otter scat on the bank, coyote tracks on the ice, and where the bridge had arched the flow in some lost age, a recently demolished beaver dam.

Origin

1950s: from Greek skōr, skat- ‘dung’.

scat4

nounskatskæt
  • A small deep-bodied silvery fish that lives in inshore and estuarine waters of the Indo-Pacific.

    金钱鱼

    Family Scatophagidae: several genera and species. See also argus (sense 3 of the noun)

Origin

1960s: abbreviation of modern Latin Scatophagidae, from Greek skatophagos ‘dung-eating’ (because the fish is often found beside sewage outlets).

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