English Dictionary

sell

verb

(transitive, intransitive, ditransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money. / (ergative) To be sold. / To promote a product or service. / To promote a particular viewpoint.

I sell my old clothes online.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive, ditransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

I'll sell you all three for a hundred dollars.

意味（2）

(ergative) To be sold.

This old stock will never sell.

意味（3）

To promote a product or service.

Howard: You're gonna feel terrible when I'm in a wheelchair. Which, by the way, would fit easily in the back of this award-winning minivan.

Bernadette: Fine, we'll go to the E.R. Just stop selling me on the van.

Howard: You're gonna feel terrible when I'm in a wheelchair. Which, by the way, would fit easily in the back of this award-winning minivan. Bernadette: Fine, we'll go to the E.R. Just stop selling me on the van. Howard: You're right. It sells itself.

意味（4）

To promote a particular viewpoint.

My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.

意味（5）

To betray for money or other things.

意味（6）

(slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.

Then weaues

Other crosse-plots

New tricks for safety, are sought;

They thriue: When, bold,

Then weaues Other crosse-plots New tricks for safety, are sought; They thriue: When, bold, Each tempt's th'other againe, and all are sold.

意味（7）

(professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.

意味（8）

(reflexive, euphemistic) To work as a prostitute.