English Dictionary

lodge

/lɑd͡ʒ/

verb

(intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position. / (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.

I will lodge a complaint with the manager.

意味（1）

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

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

意味（2）

(transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.

I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.

意味（3）

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

The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.

Stay and lodge by me this night.

意味（5）

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

This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. When you find and rouse up the stag and buck, they are said to be imprimed: […]

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

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

意味（8）

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

He maintains his innocence and has lodged an appeal - which means a retrial and the conviction being set aside in the meantime

意味（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.

意味（10）

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