Beetle

['biːt(ə)l]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings.

(verb.) beat with a beetle.

(verb.) fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; 'He beetled up the staircase'; 'They beetled off home'.

(adj.) jutting or overhanging; 'beetle brows' .

埃维塔校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

(v. t.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.

(v. t.) To beat with a heavy mallet.

(v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.

(v. t.) Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.

(v. i.) To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.

校對:奥斯瓦德

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. Protrude, project, jut, jut out, hang over.

編輯:韦德

解釋/意思:

n. a heavy wooden mallet used for driving wedges crushing or beating down paving-stones or the like: a wooden pestle-shaped utensil for mashing potatoes beating linen &c.—n. Bee′tle-head a heavy stupid fellow.—adj. Bee′tle-head′ed.

n. an order of insects technically known as Coleoptera usually with four wings the front pair forming hard and horny covers for those behind which alone are used in flight.—The Black Beetle or cockroach is not a true beetle.

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