Wing

[wɪŋ]

解释:

(noun.) a movable organ for flying (one of a pair).

(noun.) one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane.

(noun.) a stage area out of sight of the audience.

(noun.) the wing of a fowl; 'he preferred the drumsticks to the wings'.

(noun.) a unit of military aircraft.

(noun.) a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function; 'they are the progressive wing of the Republican Party'.

(noun.) (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft.

(noun.) a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side.

格温录入--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.

(n.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.

(n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.

(n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.

(n.) Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.

(n.) Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

(n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.

(n.) An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.

(n.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.

(n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

(n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.

(n.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.

(n.) One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.

(n.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.

(n.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work.

(n.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.

(n.) The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.

(n.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

(n.) One of the sides of the stags in a theater.

(v. t.) To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.

(v. t.) To supply with wings or sidepieces.

(v. t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly.

(v. t.) To move through in flight; to fly through.

(v. t.) To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.

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同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Pennon, pinion.[2]. Side-piece.[3]. (Mil.) Flank.

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解释:

n. the organ of a bird or other animal or insect by which it flies: flight means of flying: anything resembling a wing any side-piece the side of a building &c.: one of the longer sides of crown-works or horn-works in fortification: the flank corps or division of an army on either side: the ships on either extremity of a fleet ranged in line: (fig.) protection.—v.t. to furnish or transport with wings: to lend speed to: to supply with side-pieces: to bear in flight to traverse by flying: to wound on the wing to wound a person in arm or shoulder.—v.i. to soar on the wing.—adv. Wing′-and-wing′ the condition of a ship sailing before the wind with studding sails on both sides.—n. Wing′-case the horny case or cover over the wings of some insects as the beetle.—adj. Winged furnished with wings: swift: wounded in the wing: lofty sublime: alate abounding in wings.—adv. Wing′edly on or by wings.—adjs. Wing′-foot′ed having wings on the feet aliped; Wing′less without wings.—ns. Wing′let the bastard wing or alula of a bird: the pterygium of a weevil; Wing′-shell a stromb: an aviculoid bivalve a hammer-oyster: a wing-snail; Wing′-shoot′ing the act or practice of shooting flying birds; Wing′-shot a shot at a bird on the wing: one who shoots flying birds.—adj. shot in the wing or while on the wing.—adj. Wing′y having wings: soaring on wings.—Winged bull a common form in Assyrian sculpture symbolic of domination.—Make Take wing to depart; On Upon the wing flying in motion: departing; On the wings of the wind with the highest speed; Under one's wing under one's protection.

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