Определение слова «lodge» на английский

noun

1. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.

2. Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.

3. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.

4. (US) A local chapter of a trade union.

5. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.

6. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.

7. A den or cave.

8. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

9. (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.

10. A collection of objects lodged together.

11. An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.

   • The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.

2. (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.

   • I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.

3. (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.

   • The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.

4. (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.

5. (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.

6. (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.

7. (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.

8. (transitive, chiefly law, politics) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).

   • to lodge a complaint

9. (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

   • The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge.

10. (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.