Atlas

['ætləs]

['ætləs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a figure of a man used as a supporting column.

(noun.) the 1st cervical vertebra.

(noun.) a collection of maps in book form.

(noun.) (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.

埃罗尔校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) One who sustains a great burden.

(n.) The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

(n.) A collection of maps in a volume

(n.) A volume of plates illustrating any subject.

(n.) A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.

(n.) A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio.

(n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.

(n.) A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.

編輯:拉维恩

解釋/意思:

n. a kind of silk-satin manufactured in the East.

n. that piece of the human vertebral column which articulates with the skull so called because it supports the head: a collection of maps.

編輯:内尔达