Apron

['eɪpr(ə)n] or ['eprən]

解释:

(noun.) a garment of cloth or leather or plastic that is tied about the waist and worn to protect your clothing.

(noun.) a paved surface where aircraft stand while not being used.

(noun.) (golf) the part of the fairway leading onto the green.

编辑:卢克--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

(n.) Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;

(n.) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck.

(n.) A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot.

(n.) A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.

(n.) A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.

(n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.

(n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

(n.) The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.

(n.) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.

(n.) The infolded abdomen of a crab.

手打:朱迪

解释:

n. a cloth or piece of leather worn before one to protect the dress or as part of a distinctive official dress as by Freemasons &c.—aprons of silk or the like are often worn by ladies for mere ornament: the short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops: anything resembling an apron in shape or use as a gig-apron &c.—v.t. to cover with as with an apron.—adj. A′proned.—ns. A′pron-man (Shak.) a man who wears an apron a mechanic; A′pron-string a string by which an apron is attached to the person.—To be tied to a woman's apron-strings to be bound to a woman as a child is bound to its mother.

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