• n. 雄天鵝；玉米穗軸；結實的矮腳馬；圓塊
• vt. 搗碎
• n. (Cob)人名；(西)科夫

來自PIE*geu, 塊，圓塊，詞源同cod, cog, cudgel. 含有多種詞義，用于指各種圓塊狀物體。

cob

cob: [15] Cob has a bizarre range of meanings – ‘nut’, ‘horse’, ‘male swan’, ‘loaf’, ‘ear of maize’ – but a distillation of them points back to an original ‘head, or something similarly rounded’ (cobnuts and cobloaves, for example, are spherical, and the male swan is the ‘chief’ or ‘leader’). It is therefore tempting to see a connection with the now obsolete cop ‘top, head’ (probably represented in cobweb), and even with Latin caput ‘head’.
=> cobble

cob (n.)

a word or set of identical words with a wide range of meanings, many seeming to derive from notions of "heap, lump, rounded object," also "head" and its metaphoric extensions. With cognates in other Germanic languages; of uncertain origin and development. "The N.E.D. recognizes eight nouns cob, with numerous sub-groups. Like other monosyllables common in the dial[ect] its hist[ory] is inextricable" [Weekley]. In the 2nd print edition, the number stands at 11. Some senses are probably from Old English copp "top, head," others probably from Old Norse kubbi or Low German, all perhaps from a Proto-Germanic base *kubb- "something rounded." Among the earliest attested English senses are "headman, chief," and "male swan," both early 15c., but the surname Cobb (1066) suggests Old English used a form of the word as a nickname for "big, leading man." The "corn shoot" sense is attested by 1680s.

1. Here's a way of barbecuing corn-on-the-cob that I learned in the States.

這是我在美國學的一種烤玉米的方法。

來自柯林斯例句

2. corn on the cob

玉米棒子

來自《權威詞典》

3. Come on, why should COB say and piss lotsof people with that?

再說, cob為什麼非得說這種會惹惱那麼多人的話?

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4. By using FC or COB, die products are mounded in the MCM.

這些芯片級產品可以以fc方式或COB方式安裝在封裝體中.

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5. COB. TAB. COG mould train technology.

COB. TAB. COG模組工藝技術制作.

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