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单词 purvey
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Definition of purvey in English:

purvey

verb pəˈveɪpərˈveɪ
[with object]formal
  • 1Provide or supply (food, drink, or other goods) as one's business.

    供给,供应(食品、饮料或其他物品)

    shops purveying cooked food

    供应熟食的商店。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It purveys locally produced foods, wines, olive oils, cheeses and breads.
    • The dead man was one of many black Africans purveying goods outside normal shop hours and without work permits.
    • At the other end of the city a sex shop proprietor had to fight tooth and nail to obtain a licence to sell his wares, while just around the corner a shop purveying the same stock does not need a licence because he sells candles as well.
    • Our agenda is simply to delight hundreds of millions of children, harmlessly purveying the wholesome, uplifting values of community decency.
    • More than 20 million web pages purvey pornography to suit every taste, ‘adult’ chat rooms abound and virtual peepshows are proliferating at a staggering rate.
    • He purveys the usual Labour beliefs in comprehensive education.
    • Interestingly, most adware companies slough off criticism onto their affiliates when caught purveying their unwanted goods.
    • Unless MPs and other leaders are pro-active, there will be very little room for prophets of doom who may wish to take advantage of some weaknesses and use these as fertile ground to purvey lies and discontent.
    • However, in the discourse of food and social level purveyed by this image, a more specific message is communicated by that eroticism.
    • We left that hell hole behind us chomping down on the strange alien food purveyed at the exit.
    • In February 1342 he and William were instructed to sell all victuals purveyed by them.
    • All are meant to purvey the same message of ubiquitousness, a sinister blend of reassurance and menace.
    • What that spyware is trying to do is collect that information and the people who are purveying it trying to sell it.
    • Though never quite managing to hit commercial paydirt, Glasgow-born singer/songwriter John Martyn has carved out an acclaimed career by purveying an idiosyncratic mix of rock, folk and jazz.
    • In this effort, advertising companies have notoriously used women as objects to purvey their products.
    • Occasionally, it seems to be their recording technique which purveys a great deal of the album's intimacy rather than the content.
    • Credit cards are convenient, but few individuals have setups where they can handle the plastic, that being the purvey of businesses who deal in volume.
    • They purveyed all sorts of nonsense to US and UK newspapers, who swallowed it hook line and sinker.
    • As I see it, we have a perfect example here of the left trying to muzzle or altogether silence a weblog that purveys ideas they don't like or agree with.
    • The latter, in its legal and typical form, was a few stalls in a nearby town where peasant women purveyed food to urban-dwellers.
    Synonyms
    sell, supply, provide, furnish, cater, retail, deal in, trade, carry, handle, stock, offer, auction, have for sale, put on the market, peddle, hawk, tout, traffic in
    informal flog
    pass on, transmit, broadcast, disseminate, spread, put round, put about, circulate, communicate, make known, publicize, publish
    provide, supply, furnish, make available, peddle
    1. 1.1 Spread or promote (an idea, view, etc.)
      we didn't want to purvey gloom and doom
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Occasionally, it seems to be their recording technique which purveys a great deal of the album's intimacy rather than the content.
      • He sets out to disprove the notion purveyed by Republican sympathizers that the media is biased to the left.
      • The government, purveying seriousness, can now be affronted with silliness.
      • Delinquency was theorized by some as a rejection and inversion of the middle-class values purveyed by the school and, by others, as a celebration of working-class values.
      • They then become a center of excellence purveying their expertise to the public at large.
      • Those of them who master its lessons will be inoculated against all manner of ideological nonsense purveyed by their leftist professors.
      • The media continue to purvey subtle (and not so subtle) messages that entrench stereotypical gender conceptions.
      • The ignorance purveyed by these programs puts young people at risk of HIV infection and premature death.
      • In the case of Vietnam, the anchor began as a reliable mouthpiece for the optimistic scenarios purveyed by the Johnson administration.
      • Contrary to the impression purveyed by the media, federalism is opposed by a clear majority of Iraqis - by a majority of Sunnis and a majority of Shi'ites alike.
      • Thus there is two-fold resistance to the dominant patterns of interpretation which have been purveyed by the mainstream churches.
      • He purveys the usual Labour beliefs in comprehensive education.
      • Wordsworth was complaining about modernity, not the media; the difference in how information is purveyed today is by degrees.
      • All are meant to purvey the same message of ubiquitousness, a sinister blend of reassurance and menace.
      • It purveys a sense of yearning.
      • They purveyed the lie that Connolly was entirely opposed to the use of armed struggle.
      • His study of representative contemporary types in Irishmen all purveyed an inclusive notion of Irish nationhood.
      • The conservative talk jocks have been purveying this canard to explain their monopoly of the spectrum.
      • Common ownership can result in the same selectively chosen information and the same opinions being purveyed by different media outlets.
      • On occasion, Soviet students openly disputed with lecturers purveying official truths, and this was quite shocking for traditionalists.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French purveier, from Latin providere 'foresee, attend to' (see provide). Early senses included 'foresee', 'attend to in advance', and 'equip'.

Rhymes

affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea

Definition of purvey in US English:

purvey

verbpərˈveɪpərˈvā
[with object]formal
  • 1Provide or supply (food, drink, or other goods) as one's business.

    供给,供应(食品、饮料或其他物品)

    shops purveying cooked food

    供应熟食的商店。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As I see it, we have a perfect example here of the left trying to muzzle or altogether silence a weblog that purveys ideas they don't like or agree with.
    • The dead man was one of many black Africans purveying goods outside normal shop hours and without work permits.
    • At the other end of the city a sex shop proprietor had to fight tooth and nail to obtain a licence to sell his wares, while just around the corner a shop purveying the same stock does not need a licence because he sells candles as well.
    • More than 20 million web pages purvey pornography to suit every taste, ‘adult’ chat rooms abound and virtual peepshows are proliferating at a staggering rate.
    • Our agenda is simply to delight hundreds of millions of children, harmlessly purveying the wholesome, uplifting values of community decency.
    • However, in the discourse of food and social level purveyed by this image, a more specific message is communicated by that eroticism.
    • In this effort, advertising companies have notoriously used women as objects to purvey their products.
    • Though never quite managing to hit commercial paydirt, Glasgow-born singer/songwriter John Martyn has carved out an acclaimed career by purveying an idiosyncratic mix of rock, folk and jazz.
    • It purveys locally produced foods, wines, olive oils, cheeses and breads.
    • Interestingly, most adware companies slough off criticism onto their affiliates when caught purveying their unwanted goods.
    • Credit cards are convenient, but few individuals have setups where they can handle the plastic, that being the purvey of businesses who deal in volume.
    • Occasionally, it seems to be their recording technique which purveys a great deal of the album's intimacy rather than the content.
    • Unless MPs and other leaders are pro-active, there will be very little room for prophets of doom who may wish to take advantage of some weaknesses and use these as fertile ground to purvey lies and discontent.
    • All are meant to purvey the same message of ubiquitousness, a sinister blend of reassurance and menace.
    • We left that hell hole behind us chomping down on the strange alien food purveyed at the exit.
    • The latter, in its legal and typical form, was a few stalls in a nearby town where peasant women purveyed food to urban-dwellers.
    • What that spyware is trying to do is collect that information and the people who are purveying it trying to sell it.
    • He purveys the usual Labour beliefs in comprehensive education.
    • In February 1342 he and William were instructed to sell all victuals purveyed by them.
    • They purveyed all sorts of nonsense to US and UK newspapers, who swallowed it hook line and sinker.
    Synonyms
    sell, supply, provide, furnish, cater, retail, deal in, trade, carry, handle, stock, offer, auction, have for sale, put on the market, peddle, hawk, tout, traffic in
    pass on, transmit, broadcast, disseminate, spread, put round, put about, circulate, communicate, make known, publicize, publish
    1. 1.1 Spread or promote (an idea, view, etc.)
      we didn't want to purvey gloom and doom
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His study of representative contemporary types in Irishmen all purveyed an inclusive notion of Irish nationhood.
      • Occasionally, it seems to be their recording technique which purveys a great deal of the album's intimacy rather than the content.
      • Those of them who master its lessons will be inoculated against all manner of ideological nonsense purveyed by their leftist professors.
      • Contrary to the impression purveyed by the media, federalism is opposed by a clear majority of Iraqis - by a majority of Sunnis and a majority of Shi'ites alike.
      • Common ownership can result in the same selectively chosen information and the same opinions being purveyed by different media outlets.
      • They purveyed the lie that Connolly was entirely opposed to the use of armed struggle.
      • In the case of Vietnam, the anchor began as a reliable mouthpiece for the optimistic scenarios purveyed by the Johnson administration.
      • The ignorance purveyed by these programs puts young people at risk of HIV infection and premature death.
      • It purveys a sense of yearning.
      • Thus there is two-fold resistance to the dominant patterns of interpretation which have been purveyed by the mainstream churches.
      • He sets out to disprove the notion purveyed by Republican sympathizers that the media is biased to the left.
      • The media continue to purvey subtle (and not so subtle) messages that entrench stereotypical gender conceptions.
      • The government, purveying seriousness, can now be affronted with silliness.
      • Wordsworth was complaining about modernity, not the media; the difference in how information is purveyed today is by degrees.
      • On occasion, Soviet students openly disputed with lecturers purveying official truths, and this was quite shocking for traditionalists.
      • All are meant to purvey the same message of ubiquitousness, a sinister blend of reassurance and menace.
      • He purveys the usual Labour beliefs in comprehensive education.
      • They then become a center of excellence purveying their expertise to the public at large.
      • Delinquency was theorized by some as a rejection and inversion of the middle-class values purveyed by the school and, by others, as a celebration of working-class values.
      • The conservative talk jocks have been purveying this canard to explain their monopoly of the spectrum.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French purveier, from Latin providere ‘foresee, attend to’ (see provide). Early senses included ‘foresee’, ‘attend to in advance’, and ‘equip’.

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