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单词 ute
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ute1

nounPlural Utes, Plural utes juːtjut
Australian, NZ informal
  • A utility vehicle; a pickup.

    〈澳/新西兰,非正式〉轻型货车

    ordinary families buy pickups and sport utes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A lifeguard in a ute drove past and gave me a wave.
    • There was a verandah out the front where we sipped our milkshakes and watched the utes driving past.
    • I saw her watching the men driving off in their utes, chainsaws at the ready.
    • No motor vehicle has a more Australian heritage than the ute.
    • Every year, Australians buy 70,000 utes and small pickups, about 9 percent of the vehicle market.
    Synonyms
    pickup truck, utility truck, utility vehicle

Origin

1940s: abbreviation.

Ute2

nounPlural Utes, Plural utes juːtjut
  • 1A member of a North American people living chiefly in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Cultural familiarity, if not in this case ties of kinship, connected these Utes and New Mexicans, enabling the latter to establish themselves peacefully in Ute territory.
    • At times the Navajos were allied with the Spanish against other Indians, principally the Utes.
    • Apparently it was a sacred place for the Utes who used to winter here.
    • Among the Shoshones and Utes, twins were sometimes looked upon as a sign of impending bad luck.
    • In Utah the territory's dominant tribe, the Utes, had lived for centuries close by Utah Lake.
  • 2mass noun The Uto-Aztecan language of the Ute, now with few speakers.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her native language, Ute, is closely related to Shoshoni.
    • He spoke Ute at home, but as soon as they hit the school bus, and all day long, they spoke English.
    • The diminutive suffix is often used in Ute and Paiute to indicate youth or affection.
adjective juːtjut
  • Relating to the Ute or their language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the spring of 1784 a Ute headman named Ignacio caught wind of a party of New Mexicans heading north to build a settlement on land the Utes claimed as their own.
    • More than a thousand Utes, especially older people, also speak their native Ute language.
    • Many Ute children like to go hunting and fishing with their fathers.

Origin

From Spanish Yuta; compare with Paiute.

ute1

nounjutyo͞ot
Australian, NZ informal
  • A utility vehicle.

    〈澳/新西兰,非正式〉轻型货车

    ordinary families buy pickups and sport utes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A lifeguard in a ute drove past and gave me a wave.
    • I saw her watching the men driving off in their utes, chainsaws at the ready.
    • There was a verandah out the front where we sipped our milkshakes and watched the utes driving past.
    • Every year, Australians buy 70,000 utes and small pickups, about 9 percent of the vehicle market.
    • No motor vehicle has a more Australian heritage than the ute.
    Synonyms
    pickup truck, utility truck, utility vehicle

Origin

1940s: abbreviation.

Ute2

nounyo͞otjut
  • 1A member of a North American people living chiefly in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Among the Shoshones and Utes, twins were sometimes looked upon as a sign of impending bad luck.
    • Apparently it was a sacred place for the Utes who used to winter here.
    • In Utah the territory's dominant tribe, the Utes, had lived for centuries close by Utah Lake.
    • Cultural familiarity, if not in this case ties of kinship, connected these Utes and New Mexicans, enabling the latter to establish themselves peacefully in Ute territory.
    • At times the Navajos were allied with the Spanish against other Indians, principally the Utes.
  • 2The Uto-Aztecan language of the Ute.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He spoke Ute at home, but as soon as they hit the school bus, and all day long, they spoke English.
    • Her native language, Ute, is closely related to Shoshoni.
    • The diminutive suffix is often used in Ute and Paiute to indicate youth or affection.
adjectiveyo͞otjut
  • Relating to the Ute or their language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many Ute children like to go hunting and fishing with their fathers.
    • In the spring of 1784 a Ute headman named Ignacio caught wind of a party of New Mexicans heading north to build a settlement on land the Utes claimed as their own.
    • More than a thousand Utes, especially older people, also speak their native Ute language.

Origin

From Spanish Yuta; compare with Paiute.

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