Definition of plank in English:

plank

noun plaŋkplæŋk

1A long, thin, flat piece of timber, used especially in building and flooring.
（尤指用于建筑和铺地用的）木板，板材
Example sentencesExamples
- Both feature high ceilings, ornate plasterwork, period fireplaces and wide plank wooden flooring.
- She looked around, then made a beeline for a nearby stall, unadorned flat planks displaying wickerwork baskets.
- The ceiling beams and the wide-board pine plank flooring are left intact, giving a rustic mood to the room.
- One triptych consists of an old plank cut into three pieces.
- The long planks of timber fell off the truck to the left, knocking down a telegraph pole and felling telephone lines in the area.
- It has tall, multi-coloured apartment towers that bend and droop, and people drop extended planks between buildings to visit each other.
- Most of the floors are custom-stained Black American walnut 1/2 inch by six-inch planks from Heartland Flooring.
- With premium material the planks are straighter and flatter and that means easier installation and less waste.
- To assure that the most visible wall has a full-width board, and that the planks are installed straight, use a layout line.
- This was done by shaving off part of one of the sides, and then shaving off some of the thinnest edge to make a flat plank.
- After drying outdoors for a full year, the logs are sawed, hollowed out and polished mostly by hand into long planks that are nearly flat on one side and semicircular on the other.
- To determine the size needed, place a plank on top of the planks in the next to last row.
- As you lay the planks, use a hammer or mallet and a scrap piece of flooring to force the planks tightly together and assure a snug fit.
- The floors can also be differentiated by the size of the planks and the direction of the planking.
- When setting a plank between ladders as a scaffold, be sure it extends a foot on each side and is clamped or nailed to its support
- Bridges made of boats collected together and moored side by side, with a decking of timber planks, were used from the classical period.
- New pine planks were stained on one side, and their bottoms were left unfinished because the owners wanted them to cup and warp to match the old boards in another part of the floor.
- Use plywood walk boards or wooden planks over the ceiling joists for support.
- In the end, we reach a compromise: We leave the stone mosaic and run the wide planks horizontally, but we eliminate the scattered tiles.
- For flooring, narrow strips of bamboo are laminated together to form planks, which can be glued or nailed to a subfloor.
Synonyms
board, floorboard, beam, timber, stave, deal
2A fundamental point of a political or other programme.
（政纲）要点
the central plank of the bill is the curb on industrial polluters
该法案的中心要点是制止工业污染者。
Example sentencesExamples
- A central plank of the neo-conservatives' war plan is shattering.
- I'm working with a playwright and we've just got to the stage where we're pretty sure we've nailed the main planks of the piece in place.
- This stance is doubly significant, since a key plank in Day's political program is federal government support for religious schools.
- Along with the KMT, it has made the buildup of the military a central plank of its election platform.
- He has been crucial to cementing a close alliance with Washington, which has become the central plank of the political and economic strategy of the most powerful sections of the corporate elite.
- With a sweep of the hand and in the absence of any serious struggle, the trade unions have ditched the demand for a shorter working week, which had been a central plank of their policy for decades.
- The SEP's policy to end the war is grounded on the fundamental planks of socialist internationalism.
- In the immediate postwar years he, then Labour foreign minister, was a key figure in the creation of Nato, the central plank of US military strategy during the Cold War.
- The fundamental plank of the SEP's program is the international unity of the working class.
- Control of information and propaganda has always been a central plank of war strategy.
- In an earlier epoch, the PT had made the repudiation of the debt a central plank in its campaign platform.
- This principle is a central plank of European Community policy, and it is becoming increasingly so in international law.
- It assumes that once in power it would be possible to win referendums on the main planks of its programme.
- From its formation last January, the Alliance made the call for massive cuts in personal income, capital gains, and corporate taxes its central policy plank.
- Every major political party had the end of the occupation as a central plank of their campaign.
- Later he made reconciliation with Germany one of the central planks of his foreign policy.
- They are also critical of the growth of single-faith schools - the encouragement of which is a central plank of the government's education policy.
- It became the central plank in a nonproliferation regime that helped restrain the pace of global nuclear proliferation.
- The hope that example will prove contagious is, as I understand it, the central plank of the neo-conservative ideology in Washington.
- By December, the proposal for the next phase should be ready, with a mission to Mars leaving in 2011 expected to be a central plank of the programme.
3A physical exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles, in which one performs a press-up and holds the raised position for a set period of time.
the session usually include a lot of core work, lunges, planks, and squats
Example sentencesExamples
- I have $1000 riding on my ability to hold a plank for ten minutes on September 15th.
- The front plank is one of the main exercises I teach my chiropractic patients for strengthening their core region.
- If you can hold a plank for more than two minutes with ease, you can move on to these tougher variations.
- What are the pros and cons of planks versus crunches?
- Start by doing the plank on your knees and gradually work your way up.
- When I was a gym member I got an instructor to watch me do a plank because I was having trouble.
- I've never been able to stay in the plank for more than a few seconds.
- We all know (and probably hate) the plank.
- Roll right, supporting your torso on your right forearm, raising your hips and stacking your feet so your body forms a plank.
- Perform the plank with your hands, feet or both on an unstable surface such as a gym ball.
4British informal A stupid person.
〈英，非正式〉蠢人，笨蛋
Example sentencesExamples
- Look at the plank that she married!

verb plaŋkplæŋk

[with object]

1Make, provide, or cover with planks.
用板材做；提供木板；铺上木板
the ship was planked with teak
Example sentencesExamples
- There were three steps leading to the planked one room building painted white.
- There was a chair and a desk bolted down on the wood planked floor, a few paintings on the walls and a porthole, which was covered by her cloak.
- The curved wood ceiling, shuttered wooden windows and rough planked floors lend it a seaworthy air.
- They are also biased towards the depiction of planked ships.
- Wooden planked floors led a path with railing around a large, square-shaped hole in the center of the room, that went down farther than the light would allow to be seen.
- The walls of the pit would be lined with wooden planks or wattle, and the floor could also be planked.
- On the shore, a long row of simple huts - some made of adobe, some made of straw, some made of wood, faced the beach, joined by a wooden planked walkway.
- Along the planked floor of the porch, benches, wooden rocking chairs, and old metal lawn chairs lined up, facing out to the dusty fields.
- The bed had been made, probably just this morning, but pairs of socks already littered the wide planked, wooden floor, along with a braided rug of browns and beiges.
- It rested on the planked, wooden floor next to where the boy was sitting.
- Some were planked up and rigged to portray the vessel as she looked in her completed state, while on others the hull or deck were left partially uncovered to expose the interior.
2informal Put or set (something) down forcefully or abruptly.
〈非正式〉重重地放下，用力放下，撂下
Ned planked the glasses in front of him
他把眼镜撂在他面前。
Example sentencesExamples
- In 37 minutes, his astute pass left him with just the keeper to beat but the striker contrived to plank his shot against the advancing keeper's legs.
- He planked a solid header behind him, but it was just a shade offside and the referee was quick with the decision.
- Old, but not self consciously so, the Horseshoe Bar has a well-worn wooden counter for planking those weary elbows.
3Scottish Hide (something)
〈苏格兰〉藏（物）
he had planked £1,000 under the mattress
他在床垫下藏了1，000英镑。
Example sentencesExamples
- Tonight, the mystery was solved; it turned out that she had planked it in one of our cupboards with all the other stuff we smuggled (unwrapped) into the house past the kids.

Phrases

walk the plank

1(in former times) be forced by pirates to walk blindfold along a plank over the side of a ship to one's death in the sea.
走跳板（旧时被海盗逼迫蒙着眼在船舷外的一块木板上行走直至坠海身亡）
Example sentencesExamples
- It's to this land, where boys fly, fairies interfere and pirates walk the plank, that Wendy, played by a newcomer, and her two brothers are drawn.
- A mischievous scene of children playing pirate games wracks nerves as the audience holds its breath, anticipating the body count as the unsuspecting kids walk the plank over the gator-infested water.
- I'm always strangely calm before exams - sort of with the dull numbness that comes over the prisoner just before the pirates make him walk the plank.
- After all, piracy could be just a simple matter of theft on the high seas but of course it more usually involved more nasty conduct, like making sailors walk the plank, murder, torture, etc.
- I had to try desperately to prevent my somber expression from matching one of a person walking the plank towards shark-infested waters.
- It must of been a terrible view in his eyes to see his cargo being plundered, his men bloodied before walking the plank, and the woman passengers strung over the railings of the pirate's vessel.
- The blacksmith's assistant's dad was that very person, but he walked the plank after refusing to join Barbossa's mutiny, which is why his offspring is so important to the skeletal pirates.
- They walked me over to the deeper end of the pool like pirates making their prisoner walk the plank.
- After the move, said pirates, the Bones family, continue to live their life exactly as if they were still plundering on the high seas: firing cannons, flying the Skull And Crossbones, making captives walk the plank, and so on.
- At some time near the Algerian coast Barbary pirates boarded the ship and its good officers and men walked the plank.
1. 1.1informal Be dismissed from one's job or position.
  〈非正式〉被解雇
  the manager should be made to walk the plank for not insisting Bream be re-signed
  Example sentencesExamples
  Jabbing his fingertips at the next contestant intended to walk the plank, he scowls and barks contemptuously, ‘You're fired!’
  But with the prospect of walking the plank looming large, Marie is hoping to get the support of the county behind her and particularly the support of her own age group.
  The writing may already be on the wall at Esat, where a former chief executive bowed out last month, joining a long line of former Esat bosses who have walked the plank since BT acquired the firm.
  They caused six managers to walk the plank one way or another.
  Investors both big and small have demanded the CEO also walk the plank over its subdued earnings performance and its disastrous investment forays into Asia.
  There are predictable calls for the senior councillors to ‘do the decent thing’ and walk the plank.
  As part of the eviction process, each week the contestant with the least number of votes is forced to walk the plank for their dramatic final exit from the show.
  As for EMC, don't worry if you're about to be invited to walk the plank - he can assure you that you will be treated with dignity.
  Why one of the best ministers in the government has to walk the plank is not clear.
  It was for that reason that he had to walk the plank last Wednesday.

Origin

Middle English: from Old Northern French planke, from late Latin planca 'board', feminine (used as a noun) of plancus 'flat-footed'.

The word plank ultimately comes from Latin planca ‘a board or slab’. Britons have been calling less bright people planks since the early 1980s, from the phrase as thick as two planks or two short planks, recorded from the previous decade. Walking the plank is a method of execution associated with pirates although there is little evidence that this was done regularly, and most pirates probably just threw their victims overboard.

Rhymes

ankh, bank, blank, clank, crank, dank, drank, embank, flank, franc, frank, hank, lank, outflank, outrank, Planck, point-blank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank

Definition of plank in US English:

plank

nounplæŋkplaNGk

1A long, thin, flat piece of timber, used especially in building and flooring.
（尤指用于建筑和铺地用的）木板，板材
Example sentencesExamples
- The floors can also be differentiated by the size of the planks and the direction of the planking.
- It has tall, multi-coloured apartment towers that bend and droop, and people drop extended planks between buildings to visit each other.
- The ceiling beams and the wide-board pine plank flooring are left intact, giving a rustic mood to the room.
- After drying outdoors for a full year, the logs are sawed, hollowed out and polished mostly by hand into long planks that are nearly flat on one side and semicircular on the other.
- As you lay the planks, use a hammer or mallet and a scrap piece of flooring to force the planks tightly together and assure a snug fit.
- Use plywood walk boards or wooden planks over the ceiling joists for support.
- To assure that the most visible wall has a full-width board, and that the planks are installed straight, use a layout line.
- When setting a plank between ladders as a scaffold, be sure it extends a foot on each side and is clamped or nailed to its support
- Both feature high ceilings, ornate plasterwork, period fireplaces and wide plank wooden flooring.
- To determine the size needed, place a plank on top of the planks in the next to last row.
- One triptych consists of an old plank cut into three pieces.
- For flooring, narrow strips of bamboo are laminated together to form planks, which can be glued or nailed to a subfloor.
- Most of the floors are custom-stained Black American walnut 1/2 inch by six-inch planks from Heartland Flooring.
- In the end, we reach a compromise: We leave the stone mosaic and run the wide planks horizontally, but we eliminate the scattered tiles.
- New pine planks were stained on one side, and their bottoms were left unfinished because the owners wanted them to cup and warp to match the old boards in another part of the floor.
- This was done by shaving off part of one of the sides, and then shaving off some of the thinnest edge to make a flat plank.
- The long planks of timber fell off the truck to the left, knocking down a telegraph pole and felling telephone lines in the area.
- She looked around, then made a beeline for a nearby stall, unadorned flat planks displaying wickerwork baskets.
- With premium material the planks are straighter and flatter and that means easier installation and less waste.
- Bridges made of boats collected together and moored side by side, with a decking of timber planks, were used from the classical period.
Synonyms
board, floorboard, beam, timber, stave, deal
2A fundamental point of a political or other program.
（政纲）要点
the central plank of the bill is the curb on industrial polluters
该法案的中心要点是制止工业污染者。
Example sentencesExamples
- This principle is a central plank of European Community policy, and it is becoming increasingly so in international law.
- In the immediate postwar years he, then Labour foreign minister, was a key figure in the creation of Nato, the central plank of US military strategy during the Cold War.
- In an earlier epoch, the PT had made the repudiation of the debt a central plank in its campaign platform.
- Control of information and propaganda has always been a central plank of war strategy.
- Later he made reconciliation with Germany one of the central planks of his foreign policy.
- A central plank of the neo-conservatives' war plan is shattering.
- Along with the KMT, it has made the buildup of the military a central plank of its election platform.
- I'm working with a playwright and we've just got to the stage where we're pretty sure we've nailed the main planks of the piece in place.
- Every major political party had the end of the occupation as a central plank of their campaign.
- The hope that example will prove contagious is, as I understand it, the central plank of the neo-conservative ideology in Washington.
- This stance is doubly significant, since a key plank in Day's political program is federal government support for religious schools.
- It assumes that once in power it would be possible to win referendums on the main planks of its programme.
- The SEP's policy to end the war is grounded on the fundamental planks of socialist internationalism.
- He has been crucial to cementing a close alliance with Washington, which has become the central plank of the political and economic strategy of the most powerful sections of the corporate elite.
- With a sweep of the hand and in the absence of any serious struggle, the trade unions have ditched the demand for a shorter working week, which had been a central plank of their policy for decades.
- By December, the proposal for the next phase should be ready, with a mission to Mars leaving in 2011 expected to be a central plank of the programme.
- The fundamental plank of the SEP's program is the international unity of the working class.
- From its formation last January, the Alliance made the call for massive cuts in personal income, capital gains, and corporate taxes its central policy plank.
- They are also critical of the growth of single-faith schools - the encouragement of which is a central plank of the government's education policy.
- It became the central plank in a nonproliferation regime that helped restrain the pace of global nuclear proliferation.
3A physical exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles, in which one performs a press-up and holds the raised position for a set period of time.
the session usually include a lot of core work, lunges, planks, and squats
Example sentencesExamples
- If you can hold a plank for more than two minutes with ease, you can move on to these tougher variations.
- The front plank is one of the main exercises I teach my chiropractic patients for strengthening their core region.
- Roll right, supporting your torso on your right forearm, raising your hips and stacking your feet so your body forms a plank.
- We all know (and probably hate) the plank.
- Perform the plank with your hands, feet or both on an unstable surface such as a gym ball.
- I've never been able to stay in the plank for more than a few seconds.
- Start by doing the plank on your knees and gradually work your way up.
- What are the pros and cons of planks versus crunches?
- When I was a gym member I got an instructor to watch me do a plank because I was having trouble.
- I have $1000 riding on my ability to hold a plank for ten minutes on September 15th.

verbplæŋkplaNGk

[with object]

1Make, provide, or cover with planks.
用板材做；提供木板；铺上木板
the ship was planked with teak
Example sentencesExamples
- Some were planked up and rigged to portray the vessel as she looked in her completed state, while on others the hull or deck were left partially uncovered to expose the interior.
- The curved wood ceiling, shuttered wooden windows and rough planked floors lend it a seaworthy air.
- The walls of the pit would be lined with wooden planks or wattle, and the floor could also be planked.
- They are also biased towards the depiction of planked ships.
- On the shore, a long row of simple huts - some made of adobe, some made of straw, some made of wood, faced the beach, joined by a wooden planked walkway.
- There were three steps leading to the planked one room building painted white.
- Wooden planked floors led a path with railing around a large, square-shaped hole in the center of the room, that went down farther than the light would allow to be seen.
- Along the planked floor of the porch, benches, wooden rocking chairs, and old metal lawn chairs lined up, facing out to the dusty fields.
- There was a chair and a desk bolted down on the wood planked floor, a few paintings on the walls and a porthole, which was covered by her cloak.
- The bed had been made, probably just this morning, but pairs of socks already littered the wide planked, wooden floor, along with a braided rug of browns and beiges.
- It rested on the planked, wooden floor next to where the boy was sitting.
2informal
another term for plunk (sense 3 of the verb)
Example sentencesExamples
- In 37 minutes, his astute pass left him with just the keeper to beat but the striker contrived to plank his shot against the advancing keeper's legs.
- Old, but not self consciously so, the Horseshoe Bar has a well-worn wooden counter for planking those weary elbows.
- He planked a solid header behind him, but it was just a shade offside and the referee was quick with the decision.

Phrases

walk the plank

1(formerly) be forced by pirates to walk blindfold along a plank over the side of a ship to one's death in the sea.
走跳板（旧时被海盗逼迫蒙着眼在船舷外的一块木板上行走直至坠海身亡）
Example sentencesExamples
- They walked me over to the deeper end of the pool like pirates making their prisoner walk the plank.
- After all, piracy could be just a simple matter of theft on the high seas but of course it more usually involved more nasty conduct, like making sailors walk the plank, murder, torture, etc.
- I'm always strangely calm before exams - sort of with the dull numbness that comes over the prisoner just before the pirates make him walk the plank.
- It's to this land, where boys fly, fairies interfere and pirates walk the plank, that Wendy, played by a newcomer, and her two brothers are drawn.
- The blacksmith's assistant's dad was that very person, but he walked the plank after refusing to join Barbossa's mutiny, which is why his offspring is so important to the skeletal pirates.
- A mischievous scene of children playing pirate games wracks nerves as the audience holds its breath, anticipating the body count as the unsuspecting kids walk the plank over the gator-infested water.
- After the move, said pirates, the Bones family, continue to live their life exactly as if they were still plundering on the high seas: firing cannons, flying the Skull And Crossbones, making captives walk the plank, and so on.
- At some time near the Algerian coast Barbary pirates boarded the ship and its good officers and men walked the plank.
- I had to try desperately to prevent my somber expression from matching one of a person walking the plank towards shark-infested waters.
- It must of been a terrible view in his eyes to see his cargo being plundered, his men bloodied before walking the plank, and the woman passengers strung over the railings of the pirate's vessel.
1. 1.1informal Lose one's job or position.
  〈非正式〉被解雇
  the manager should be made to walk the plank for not insisting Bream be re-signed
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was for that reason that he had to walk the plank last Wednesday.
  There are predictable calls for the senior councillors to ‘do the decent thing’ and walk the plank.
  Why one of the best ministers in the government has to walk the plank is not clear.
  Investors both big and small have demanded the CEO also walk the plank over its subdued earnings performance and its disastrous investment forays into Asia.
  Jabbing his fingertips at the next contestant intended to walk the plank, he scowls and barks contemptuously, ‘You're fired!’
  They caused six managers to walk the plank one way or another.
  As part of the eviction process, each week the contestant with the least number of votes is forced to walk the plank for their dramatic final exit from the show.
  But with the prospect of walking the plank looming large, Marie is hoping to get the support of the county behind her and particularly the support of her own age group.
  As for EMC, don't worry if you're about to be invited to walk the plank - he can assure you that you will be treated with dignity.
  The writing may already be on the wall at Esat, where a former chief executive bowed out last month, joining a long line of former Esat bosses who have walked the plank since BT acquired the firm.

Origin

Middle English: from Old Northern French planke, from late Latin planca ‘board’, feminine (used as a noun) of plancus ‘flat-footed’.

单词	plank
释义	Definition of plank in English: plank noun plaŋkplæŋk 1A long, thin, flat piece of timber, used especially in building and flooring. （尤指用于建筑和铺地用的）木板，板材 Example sentencesExamples Both feature high ceilings, ornate plasterwork, period fireplaces and wide plank wooden flooring. She looked around, then made a beeline for a nearby stall, unadorned flat planks displaying wickerwork baskets. The ceiling beams and the wide-board pine plank flooring are left intact, giving a rustic mood to the room. One triptych consists of an old plank cut into three pieces. The long planks of timber fell off the truck to the left, knocking down a telegraph pole and felling telephone lines in the area. It has tall, multi-coloured apartment towers that bend and droop, and people drop extended planks between buildings to visit each other. Most of the floors are custom-stained Black American walnut 1/2 inch by six-inch planks from Heartland Flooring. With premium material the planks are straighter and flatter and that means easier installation and less waste. To assure that the most visible wall has a full-width board, and that the planks are installed straight, use a layout line. This was done by shaving off part of one of the sides, and then shaving off some of the thinnest edge to make a flat plank. After drying outdoors for a full year, the logs are sawed, hollowed out and polished mostly by hand into long planks that are nearly flat on one side and semicircular on the other. To determine the size needed, place a plank on top of the planks in the next to last row. As you lay the planks, use a hammer or mallet and a scrap piece of flooring to force the planks tightly together and assure a snug fit. The floors can also be differentiated by the size of the planks and the direction of the planking. When setting a plank between ladders as a scaffold, be sure it extends a foot on each side and is clamped or nailed to its support Bridges made of boats collected together and moored side by side, with a decking of timber planks, were used from the classical period. New pine planks were stained on one side, and their bottoms were left unfinished because the owners wanted them to cup and warp to match the old boards in another part of the floor. Use plywood walk boards or wooden planks over the ceiling joists for support. In the end, we reach a compromise: We leave the stone mosaic and run the wide planks horizontally, but we eliminate the scattered tiles. For flooring, narrow strips of bamboo are laminated together to form planks, which can be glued or nailed to a subfloor. Synonyms board, floorboard, beam, timber, stave, deal 2A fundamental point of a political or other programme. （政纲）要点 the central plank of the bill is the curb on industrial polluters 该法案的中心要点是制止工业污染者。 Example sentencesExamples A central plank of the neo-conservatives' war plan is shattering. I'm working with a playwright and we've just got to the stage where we're pretty sure we've nailed the main planks of the piece in place. This stance is doubly significant, since a key plank in Day's political program is federal government support for religious schools. Along with the KMT, it has made the buildup of the military a central plank of its election platform. He has been crucial to cementing a close alliance with Washington, which has become the central plank of the political and economic strategy of the most powerful sections of the corporate elite. With a sweep of the hand and in the absence of any serious struggle, the trade unions have ditched the demand for a shorter working week, which had been a central plank of their policy for decades. The SEP's policy to end the war is grounded on the fundamental planks of socialist internationalism. In the immediate postwar years he, then Labour foreign minister, was a key figure in the creation of Nato, the central plank of US military strategy during the Cold War. The fundamental plank of the SEP's program is the international unity of the working class. Control of information and propaganda has always been a central plank of war strategy. In an earlier epoch, the PT had made the repudiation of the debt a central plank in its campaign platform. This principle is a central plank of European Community policy, and it is becoming increasingly so in international law. It assumes that once in power it would be possible to win referendums on the main planks of its programme. From its formation last January, the Alliance made the call for massive cuts in personal income, capital gains, and corporate taxes its central policy plank. Every major political party had the end of the occupation as a central plank of their campaign. Later he made reconciliation with Germany one of the central planks of his foreign policy. They are also critical of the growth of single-faith schools - the encouragement of which is a central plank of the government's education policy. It became the central plank in a nonproliferation regime that helped restrain the pace of global nuclear proliferation. The hope that example will prove contagious is, as I understand it, the central plank of the neo-conservative ideology in Washington. By December, the proposal for the next phase should be ready, with a mission to Mars leaving in 2011 expected to be a central plank of the programme. 3A physical exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles, in which one performs a press-up and holds the raised position for a set period of time. the session usually include a lot of core work, lunges, planks, and squats Example sentencesExamples I have $1000 riding on my ability to hold a plank for ten minutes on September 15th. The front plank is one of the main exercises I teach my chiropractic patients for strengthening their core region. If you can hold a plank for more than two minutes with ease, you can move on to these tougher variations. What are the pros and cons of planks versus crunches? Start by doing the plank on your knees and gradually work your way up. When I was a gym member I got an instructor to watch me do a plank because I was having trouble. I've never been able to stay in the plank for more than a few seconds. We all know (and probably hate) the plank. Roll right, supporting your torso on your right forearm, raising your hips and stacking your feet so your body forms a plank. Perform the plank with your hands, feet or both on an unstable surface such as a gym ball. 4British informal A stupid person. 〈英，非正式〉蠢人，笨蛋 Example sentencesExamples Look at the plank that she married! verb plaŋkplæŋk [with object] 1Make, provide, or cover with planks. 用板材做；提供木板；铺上木板 the ship was planked with teak Example sentencesExamples There were three steps leading to the planked one room building painted white. There was a chair and a desk bolted down on the wood planked floor, a few paintings on the walls and a porthole, which was covered by her cloak. The curved wood ceiling, shuttered wooden windows and rough planked floors lend it a seaworthy air. They are also biased towards the depiction of planked ships. Wooden planked floors led a path with railing around a large, square-shaped hole in the center of the room, that went down farther than the light would allow to be seen. The walls of the pit would be lined with wooden planks or wattle, and the floor could also be planked. On the shore, a long row of simple huts - some made of adobe, some made of straw, some made of wood, faced the beach, joined by a wooden planked walkway. Along the planked floor of the porch, benches, wooden rocking chairs, and old metal lawn chairs lined up, facing out to the dusty fields. The bed had been made, probably just this morning, but pairs of socks already littered the wide planked, wooden floor, along with a braided rug of browns and beiges. It rested on the planked, wooden floor next to where the boy was sitting. Some were planked up and rigged to portray the vessel as she looked in her completed state, while on others the hull or deck were left partially uncovered to expose the interior. 2informal Put or set (something) down forcefully or abruptly. 〈非正式〉重重地放下，用力放下，撂下 Ned planked the glasses in front of him 他把眼镜撂在他面前。 Example sentencesExamples In 37 minutes, his astute pass left him with just the keeper to beat but the striker contrived to plank his shot against the advancing keeper's legs. He planked a solid header behind him, but it was just a shade offside and the referee was quick with the decision. Old, but not self consciously so, the Horseshoe Bar has a well-worn wooden counter for planking those weary elbows. 3Scottish Hide (something) 〈苏格兰〉藏（物） he had planked £1,000 under the mattress 他在床垫下藏了1，000英镑。 Example sentencesExamples Tonight, the mystery was solved; it turned out that she had planked it in one of our cupboards with all the other stuff we smuggled (unwrapped) into the house past the kids. Phrases walk the plank 1(in former times) be forced by pirates to walk blindfold along a plank over the side of a ship to one's death in the sea. 走跳板（旧时被海盗逼迫蒙着眼在船舷外的一块木板上行走直至坠海身亡） Example sentencesExamples It's to this land, where boys fly, fairies interfere and pirates walk the plank, that Wendy, played by a newcomer, and her two brothers are drawn. A mischievous scene of children playing pirate games wracks nerves as the audience holds its breath, anticipating the body count as the unsuspecting kids walk the plank over the gator-infested water. I'm always strangely calm before exams - sort of with the dull numbness that comes over the prisoner just before the pirates make him walk the plank. After all, piracy could be just a simple matter of theft on the high seas but of course it more usually involved more nasty conduct, like making sailors walk the plank, murder, torture, etc. I had to try desperately to prevent my somber expression from matching one of a person walking the plank towards shark-infested waters. It must of been a terrible view in his eyes to see his cargo being plundered, his men bloodied before walking the plank, and the woman passengers strung over the railings of the pirate's vessel. The blacksmith's assistant's dad was that very person, but he walked the plank after refusing to join Barbossa's mutiny, which is why his offspring is so important to the skeletal pirates. They walked me over to the deeper end of the pool like pirates making their prisoner walk the plank. After the move, said pirates, the Bones family, continue to live their life exactly as if they were still plundering on the high seas: firing cannons, flying the Skull And Crossbones, making captives walk the plank, and so on. At some time near the Algerian coast Barbary pirates boarded the ship and its good officers and men walked the plank. 1.1informal Be dismissed from one's job or position. 〈非正式〉被解雇 the manager should be made to walk the plank for not insisting Bream be re-signed Example sentencesExamples Jabbing his fingertips at the next contestant intended to walk the plank, he scowls and barks contemptuously, ‘You're fired!’ But with the prospect of walking the plank looming large, Marie is hoping to get the support of the county behind her and particularly the support of her own age group. The writing may already be on the wall at Esat, where a former chief executive bowed out last month, joining a long line of former Esat bosses who have walked the plank since BT acquired the firm. They caused six managers to walk the plank one way or another. Investors both big and small have demanded the CEO also walk the plank over its subdued earnings performance and its disastrous investment forays into Asia. There are predictable calls for the senior councillors to ‘do the decent thing’ and walk the plank. As part of the eviction process, each week the contestant with the least number of votes is forced to walk the plank for their dramatic final exit from the show. As for EMC, don't worry if you're about to be invited to walk the plank - he can assure you that you will be treated with dignity. Why one of the best ministers in the government has to walk the plank is not clear. It was for that reason that he had to walk the plank last Wednesday. Origin Middle English: from Old Northern French planke, from late Latin planca 'board', feminine (used as a noun) of plancus 'flat-footed'. The word plank ultimately comes from Latin planca ‘a board or slab’. Britons have been calling less bright people planks since the early 1980s, from the phrase as thick as two planks or two short planks, recorded from the previous decade. Walking the plank is a method of execution associated with pirates although there is little evidence that this was done regularly, and most pirates probably just threw their victims overboard. Rhymes ankh, bank, blank, clank, crank, dank, drank, embank, flank, franc, frank, hank, lank, outflank, outrank, Planck, point-blank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank noun.1 phr. Definition of plank in US English: plank nounplæŋkplaNGk 1A long, thin, flat piece of timber, used especially in building and flooring. （尤指用于建筑和铺地用的）木板，板材 Example sentencesExamples The floors can also be differentiated by the size of the planks and the direction of the planking. It has tall, multi-coloured apartment towers that bend and droop, and people drop extended planks between buildings to visit each other. The ceiling beams and the wide-board pine plank flooring are left intact, giving a rustic mood to the room. After drying outdoors for a full year, the logs are sawed, hollowed out and polished mostly by hand into long planks that are nearly flat on one side and semicircular on the other. As you lay the planks, use a hammer or mallet and a scrap piece of flooring to force the planks tightly together and assure a snug fit. Use plywood walk boards or wooden planks over the ceiling joists for support. To assure that the most visible wall has a full-width board, and that the planks are installed straight, use a layout line. When setting a plank between ladders as a scaffold, be sure it extends a foot on each side and is clamped or nailed to its support Both feature high ceilings, ornate plasterwork, period fireplaces and wide plank wooden flooring. To determine the size needed, place a plank on top of the planks in the next to last row. One triptych consists of an old plank cut into three pieces. For flooring, narrow strips of bamboo are laminated together to form planks, which can be glued or nailed to a subfloor. Most of the floors are custom-stained Black American walnut 1/2 inch by six-inch planks from Heartland Flooring. In the end, we reach a compromise: We leave the stone mosaic and run the wide planks horizontally, but we eliminate the scattered tiles. New pine planks were stained on one side, and their bottoms were left unfinished because the owners wanted them to cup and warp to match the old boards in another part of the floor. This was done by shaving off part of one of the sides, and then shaving off some of the thinnest edge to make a flat plank. The long planks of timber fell off the truck to the left, knocking down a telegraph pole and felling telephone lines in the area. She looked around, then made a beeline for a nearby stall, unadorned flat planks displaying wickerwork baskets. With premium material the planks are straighter and flatter and that means easier installation and less waste. Bridges made of boats collected together and moored side by side, with a decking of timber planks, were used from the classical period. Synonyms board, floorboard, beam, timber, stave, deal 2A fundamental point of a political or other program. （政纲）要点 the central plank of the bill is the curb on industrial polluters 该法案的中心要点是制止工业污染者。 Example sentencesExamples This principle is a central plank of European Community policy, and it is becoming increasingly so in international law. In the immediate postwar years he, then Labour foreign minister, was a key figure in the creation of Nato, the central plank of US military strategy during the Cold War. In an earlier epoch, the PT had made the repudiation of the debt a central plank in its campaign platform. Control of information and propaganda has always been a central plank of war strategy. Later he made reconciliation with Germany one of the central planks of his foreign policy. A central plank of the neo-conservatives' war plan is shattering. Along with the KMT, it has made the buildup of the military a central plank of its election platform. I'm working with a playwright and we've just got to the stage where we're pretty sure we've nailed the main planks of the piece in place. Every major political party had the end of the occupation as a central plank of their campaign. The hope that example will prove contagious is, as I understand it, the central plank of the neo-conservative ideology in Washington. This stance is doubly significant, since a key plank in Day's political program is federal government support for religious schools. It assumes that once in power it would be possible to win referendums on the main planks of its programme. The SEP's policy to end the war is grounded on the fundamental planks of socialist internationalism. He has been crucial to cementing a close alliance with Washington, which has become the central plank of the political and economic strategy of the most powerful sections of the corporate elite. With a sweep of the hand and in the absence of any serious struggle, the trade unions have ditched the demand for a shorter working week, which had been a central plank of their policy for decades. By December, the proposal for the next phase should be ready, with a mission to Mars leaving in 2011 expected to be a central plank of the programme. The fundamental plank of the SEP's program is the international unity of the working class. From its formation last January, the Alliance made the call for massive cuts in personal income, capital gains, and corporate taxes its central policy plank. They are also critical of the growth of single-faith schools - the encouragement of which is a central plank of the government's education policy. It became the central plank in a nonproliferation regime that helped restrain the pace of global nuclear proliferation. 3A physical exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles, in which one performs a press-up and holds the raised position for a set period of time. the session usually include a lot of core work, lunges, planks, and squats Example sentencesExamples If you can hold a plank for more than two minutes with ease, you can move on to these tougher variations. The front plank is one of the main exercises I teach my chiropractic patients for strengthening their core region. Roll right, supporting your torso on your right forearm, raising your hips and stacking your feet so your body forms a plank. We all know (and probably hate) the plank. Perform the plank with your hands, feet or both on an unstable surface such as a gym ball. I've never been able to stay in the plank for more than a few seconds. Start by doing the plank on your knees and gradually work your way up. What are the pros and cons of planks versus crunches? When I was a gym member I got an instructor to watch me do a plank because I was having trouble. I have $1000 riding on my ability to hold a plank for ten minutes on September 15th. verbplæŋkplaNGk [with object] 1Make, provide, or cover with planks. 用板材做；提供木板；铺上木板 the ship was planked with teak Example sentencesExamples Some were planked up and rigged to portray the vessel as she looked in her completed state, while on others the hull or deck were left partially uncovered to expose the interior. The curved wood ceiling, shuttered wooden windows and rough planked floors lend it a seaworthy air. The walls of the pit would be lined with wooden planks or wattle, and the floor could also be planked. They are also biased towards the depiction of planked ships. On the shore, a long row of simple huts - some made of adobe, some made of straw, some made of wood, faced the beach, joined by a wooden planked walkway. There were three steps leading to the planked one room building painted white. Wooden planked floors led a path with railing around a large, square-shaped hole in the center of the room, that went down farther than the light would allow to be seen. Along the planked floor of the porch, benches, wooden rocking chairs, and old metal lawn chairs lined up, facing out to the dusty fields. There was a chair and a desk bolted down on the wood planked floor, a few paintings on the walls and a porthole, which was covered by her cloak. The bed had been made, probably just this morning, but pairs of socks already littered the wide planked, wooden floor, along with a braided rug of browns and beiges. It rested on the planked, wooden floor next to where the boy was sitting. 2informal another term for plunk (sense 3 of the verb) Example sentencesExamples In 37 minutes, his astute pass left him with just the keeper to beat but the striker contrived to plank his shot against the advancing keeper's legs. Old, but not self consciously so, the Horseshoe Bar has a well-worn wooden counter for planking those weary elbows. He planked a solid header behind him, but it was just a shade offside and the referee was quick with the decision. Phrases walk the plank 1(formerly) be forced by pirates to walk blindfold along a plank over the side of a ship to one's death in the sea. 走跳板（旧时被海盗逼迫蒙着眼在船舷外的一块木板上行走直至坠海身亡） Example sentencesExamples They walked me over to the deeper end of the pool like pirates making their prisoner walk the plank. After all, piracy could be just a simple matter of theft on the high seas but of course it more usually involved more nasty conduct, like making sailors walk the plank, murder, torture, etc. I'm always strangely calm before exams - sort of with the dull numbness that comes over the prisoner just before the pirates make him walk the plank. It's to this land, where boys fly, fairies interfere and pirates walk the plank, that Wendy, played by a newcomer, and her two brothers are drawn. The blacksmith's assistant's dad was that very person, but he walked the plank after refusing to join Barbossa's mutiny, which is why his offspring is so important to the skeletal pirates. A mischievous scene of children playing pirate games wracks nerves as the audience holds its breath, anticipating the body count as the unsuspecting kids walk the plank over the gator-infested water. After the move, said pirates, the Bones family, continue to live their life exactly as if they were still plundering on the high seas: firing cannons, flying the Skull And Crossbones, making captives walk the plank, and so on. At some time near the Algerian coast Barbary pirates boarded the ship and its good officers and men walked the plank. I had to try desperately to prevent my somber expression from matching one of a person walking the plank towards shark-infested waters. It must of been a terrible view in his eyes to see his cargo being plundered, his men bloodied before walking the plank, and the woman passengers strung over the railings of the pirate's vessel. 1.1informal Lose one's job or position. 〈非正式〉被解雇 the manager should be made to walk the plank for not insisting Bream be re-signed Example sentencesExamples It was for that reason that he had to walk the plank last Wednesday. There are predictable calls for the senior councillors to ‘do the decent thing’ and walk the plank. Why one of the best ministers in the government has to walk the plank is not clear. Investors both big and small have demanded the CEO also walk the plank over its subdued earnings performance and its disastrous investment forays into Asia. Jabbing his fingertips at the next contestant intended to walk the plank, he scowls and barks contemptuously, ‘You're fired!’ They caused six managers to walk the plank one way or another. As part of the eviction process, each week the contestant with the least number of votes is forced to walk the plank for their dramatic final exit from the show. But with the prospect of walking the plank looming large, Marie is hoping to get the support of the county behind her and particularly the support of her own age group. As for EMC, don't worry if you're about to be invited to walk the plank - he can assure you that you will be treated with dignity. The writing may already be on the wall at Esat, where a former chief executive bowed out last month, joining a long line of former Esat bosses who have walked the plank since BT acquired the firm. Origin Middle English: from Old Northern French planke, from late Latin planca ‘board’, feminine (used as a noun) of plancus ‘flat-footed’. noun.1 phr.
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