shop /ˈʃɑp/
 商店,工廠,車間(vi.)購物,到處尋找(vt.)選購


 shop
 現場


 shop
 工場 現場


 Shop, n.
 1. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
 From shop to shop
 Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks
 The polished counter.   --Cowper.
 2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
    A tailor called me in his shop.   --Shak.
 3. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party.  Also used attributively, as in shop talk.
 4.  A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop; also, Slang, any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc.
 5.  Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc. [Slang, Chiefly Eng.]
 6.  the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop. [Colloq.]
 Note: ☞ Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc.
 To smell of the shop, to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession.
 To talk shop, to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. [Colloq.]
 Syn: -- Store; warehouse. See Store.


 Shop obs. imp. of Shape. Shaped.


 Shop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shopped p. pr. & vb. n. Shopping.] To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
    He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping.   --Byron.

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 shop
      n 1: a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or
           services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn: store]
      2: small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
         [syn: workshop]
      3: a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or
         electricity); "I built a birdhouse in shop" [syn: {shop
         class]
      v 1: do one's shopping; "She goes shopping every Friday"
      2: do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or
         client of [syn: patronize, patronise, shop at, {buy
         at, frequent, sponsor] [ant: boycott, boycott]
      3: shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm
         just browsing" [syn: browse]
      4: give away information about somebody; "He told on his
         classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, {tell
         on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, snitch,
          stag]
      [also: shopping, shopped]