transcription, транскрипция: [ stɔ:k ]
( stalks, stalking, stalked)
1.
The stalk of a flower, leaf, or fruit is the thin part that joins it to the plant or tree.
A single pale blue flower grows up from each joint on a long stalk.
...corn stalks.
= stem
N-COUNT : usu with supp
2.
If you stalk a person or a wild animal, you follow them quietly in order to kill them, catch them, or observe them carefully.
He stalks his victims like a hunter after a deer.
= track
VERB : V n
3.
If someone stalks someone else, especially a famous person or a person they used to have a relationship with, they keep following them or contacting them in an annoying and frightening way.
Even after their divorce he continued to stalk and threaten her.
VERB : V n
• stalk‧ing
The Home Secretary is considering a new law against stalking.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If you stalk somewhere, you walk there in a stiff, proud, or angry way.
If his patience is tried at meetings he has been known to stalk out.
VERB : V adv / prep