Lip

[lɪp]

解释:

(noun.) either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell.

(noun.) either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking.

(noun.) (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx.

手打:奥齐--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.

(n.) An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.

(n.) The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

(n.) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

(n.) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.

(n.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

(v. t.) To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.

(v. t.) To utter; to speak.

(v. t.) To clip; to trim.

巴罗录入

同义词及近义词：

n. Edge or border (of the mouth, &c.).

录入:米歇尔

解释:

n. the muscular border in front of the teeth by which things are taken into the mouth; the edge of anything: (slang) impudent talk insolence: (pl.) speech as passing through the lips.—v.t. to touch with the lips: to utter with the lips.—v.i. to apply the lips to the mouthpiece of an instrument.—adj. Lip′born from the lips only: not genuine.—ns. Lip′-devō′tion prayer of the lips without devotion in the heart; Lip′-hom′age insincere homage; Lip′-lā′bour empty speech; Lip′-lang′uage oral or articulate language communicated by motions of the lips as opposed to the fingers in teaching or conversing with the deaf and dumb; Lip′let a little lip; Lip′-or′nament an object inserted as an ornament in the lip common among savage tribes.—adj. Lipped having lips or edges like lips labiate.—ns. Lip′-read′ing reading what a person says from the movement of the lips in the instruction of the deaf and dumb; Lip′-serv′ice service with the lips only: insincere devotion or worship; Lip′-wis′dom wisdom in words only not in deeds.—Bite the lip to press the lips between the teeth to keep one's self from betraying vexation anger &c.; Curl of the lip the causing the lip to curl as an indication of scorn; Hang the lip to be sullen or sulky; Make a lip (Shak.) to pout in sullenness or contempt.

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