haul
US: /ˈhɔɫ/
UK: /hˈɔːl/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
haul /hɔ:l/- danh từ
- sự kéo mạnh; đoạn đường kéo
- a long haul: sự kéo trên một đoạn đường dài
- (ngành mỏ) sự đẩy goòng
- sự chuyên chở hàng (bằng xe vận tải); khối lượng chuyên chở
- (nghĩa bóng) mẻ lưới; món lâi, món kiếm được, mẻ vớ được
- a good haul of fish: một mẻ lưới đầy cá
- sự kéo mạnh; đoạn đường kéo
- ngoại động từ
- kéo mạnh, lôi mạnh
- (ngành mỏ) đẩy (goòng than)
- chuyên chở (hàng hoá... bằng xe vận tải)
- (hàng hải) đổi hướng đi (của tàu)
- nội động từ
- (+ at, upon) kéo mạnh, lôi mạnh
- to haul at a rope: kéo mạnh cái dây thừng
- (ngành mỏ) đẩy (goòng than)
- (hàng hải) xoay hướng
- to haul upon the wind: xoay hướng đi theo chiều gió
- đổi chiều (gió)
- the wind hauls from north to west: gió đổi chiều từ bắc sang tây
- to haul off
- (hàng hải) xoay hướng, chuyển hướng tàu
- rút lui
- (thông tục) rút tay về trước khi đánh trúng, chuẩn bị đấm
- to haul down one's flag
- đầu hàng
- to haul somebody over the coals
- (xem) coal
- (+ at, upon) kéo mạnh, lôi mạnh
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun+ verb
1 [VN] to pull sth/sb with a lot of effort: The wagons were hauled by horses. + He reached down and hauled Liz up onto the wall. + The car was hauled out of the river. + fishermen hauling in their nets
2 [VN +adv./prep.] ~ yourself up / out of etc. to move yourself somewhere slowly and with a lot of effort: She hauled herself out of bed. + He hauled himself up.
3 [VN +adv./prep.] to force sb to go somewhere they do not want to go: A number of suspects have been hauled in for questioning. + He was hauled off to jail.
4 [VN] [usually passive] ~ sb (up) before sb/sth to make sb appear in a court of law in order to be judged: He was hauled up before the local magistrates for dangerous driving.
Idioms: haul sb over the coals (BrE) (AmE rake sb over the coals) to criticize sb severely because they have done sth wrong: I was hauled over the coals by my boss for being late.
+ noun
1 a large amount of sth that has been stolen or that is illegal: a haul of jewellery / weapons + a drugs haul
2 (especially in sport) a large number of points, goals, etc: His haul of 40 goals in a season is a record.
3 [usually sing.] the distance covered in a particular journey: They began the long slow haul to the summit. + Our camp is only a short haul from here. + Take the coast road-it'll be less of a haul (= an easier journey). + (figurative) It's going to be a long haul till you're fit again (= it will take a long time).
See also -
4 a quantity of fish caught at one time: The fishermen had a good haul.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 drag, pull, tug, tow, trail, lug, heave, draw:
Are you sure that one horse can haul that load?
2 cart, transport, carry, convey, truck, move:
The new vehicles are equipped to haul bulk dry goods.
n.
3 pull, tug, drag, draw; heave; attraction:
The tides are greater under the haul of both sun and moon.
4 catch, take, yield, harvest, bag:
We returned with quite a good haul of cod.
Collocation
1 act of hauling
VERB + HAUL
give sth
PREP.
~ on
When I shout, give a haul on the rope.
2 distance to be travelled
ADJ.
long, short
the long haul back to Cape Town a short-haul passenger plane
| final, last
the final haul up the hill to the finishing line
PREP.
~ from, ~ to
3 of fish/stolen goods, etc.
ADJ.
big, large, record
The thieves got away with a record haul of £25 million.
| arms, drugs
VERB + HAUL
get, get away with
The gang did not expect to get such a large haul.
HAUL + VERB
be worth sth
a haul worth £30,000
PREP.
~ of
the biggest ever haul of illegal drugs
Concise dictionary
hauls|hauled|haulinghɔːlnoun
+the act of drawing or hauling something
+the quantity that was caught
verb
+draw slowly or heavily
+transport in a vehicle
