Tiger

['taɪgə] or ['taɪɡɚ]

解释:

(noun.) large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered.

(noun.) a fierce or audacious person; 'he's a tiger on the tennis court'; 'it aroused the tiger in me'.

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解释:

(n.) A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.

(n.) Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.

(n.) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.

(n.) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger.

(n.) A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

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解释:

n. a fierce and rapacious feline quadruped nearly as large as a lion: the jaguar: a servant in livery who rides with his master: a swaggering bully a low ruffian: (U.S.) one more cheer after a round of cheers: a tiger-beetle:—fem. Tī′gress.—ns. Ti′ger-bee′tle a cicindela; Tī′ger-cat a wild-cat: the margay ocelot and serval; Tī′ger-flow′er a Mexican plant cultivated in flower-gardens for its streaked flowers.—adjs. Tī′ger-foot′ed (Shak.) hastening to devour fierce and rapacious; Tī′gerish like a tiger in disposition.—ns. Tī′gerism; Tī′ger-lil′y a species of lily with spotted flowers; Tī′ger-moth any one of the Arctiid whose larv?are called woolly bears; Tī′ger-wolf a name given to the spotted hyena and to the Thylacine.—adj. Tī′grine like a tiger.

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