English Dictionary

squat

/skwɒt/

noun

A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet. / (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.

I did a squat at the gym today.

意味（1）

A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.

Sit in a squat, with your feet a comfortable distance apart.

意味（2）

(exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.

意味（3）

(weightlifting) A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising (back squat), especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders (barbell back squat).

The king of all quad exercises, and arguably the best single-weight resistance exercise, is the squat.

意味（4）

A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.

Keeping your friends warm and dry, that doesn't happen here. If you want to spend a night in a squat, it's all political to get in. Lately, as buildings have filled and become stringent about new admissions, much of the squatters' My house is your house rhetoric has become hollow.

意味（5）

A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form.

意味（6）

A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.

意味（7）

(slang, Canada, US) Clipping of diddly-squat; something of no value.

I know squat about nuclear physics.

意味（8）

(obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.

bruises, and squats, and falls, which often kill others

意味（9）

(mining) A small vein of ore.

意味（10）

A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.

A Mineral, very ponderous, and probably holding Tin. […] 'Twas part of a Squat, at Hewas-Work; not far from Polgouth, in St. Stephen's Liberty, Cornwall.