Bulge

[bʌldʒ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; 'the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge'; 'the hump of a camel'; 'he stood on the rocky prominence'; 'the occipital protuberance was well developed'; 'the bony excrescence between its horns'.

(verb.) cause to bulge or swell outwards.

(verb.) swell or protrude outwards; 'His stomach bulged after the huge meal'.

(verb.) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge.

雅克校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

(n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.

(n.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.

(v. i.) To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.

(v. i.) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

校對:索尼亚

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Protuberance, bilge, belly, swell, swelling.

v. n. Protrude, jut out.

校對:维托

解釋/意思:

n. the widest part of a cask a round protuberance swelling.—v.i. to swell out.—ns. Bul′ger a wooden golf-club with a convex face; Bul′giness.—adj. Bul′gy—To get the bulge on one (slang) to get a decided advantage over a person.

錄入:鲁道夫