Clinch
[klɪn(t)ʃ] or [klɪntʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily.
(noun.) the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet.
(noun.) a small slip noose made with seizing.
(verb.) settle conclusively; 'clinch a deal'.
(verb.) flatten the ends (of nails and rivets); 'the nails were clinched'.
(verb.) secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts; 'The girder was clinched into the wall'.
(verb.) embrace amorously.
(verb.) hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches.
錄入:莱尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
(v. t.) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
(v. t.) To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.
(v. t.) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
(v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
(n.) The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.
(n.) A pun.
(n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
胡安編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Grasp, gripe, clasp, clutch, grapple, lay hold of.[2]. Fasten, secure.[3]. Confirm, fix, establish.
n. [1]. Pun, ambiguity, quibble, CALEMBOUR, DOUBLE-ENTENDRE, double meaning, play upon words.[2]. Clincher, cramp, hold-fast.
布兰卡德錄入
解釋/意思:
v.t. to fasten or rivet a nail by bending the point and beating the bent part flat against the object through which the nail was driven: to grasp tightly: to set firmly as the teeth: to fasten on: (fig.) to drive home an argument: to settle or confirm.—n. something set firmly: the fastening of a nail by beating it back as in the verb: a pun.—n. Clinch′er one that clinches: a decisive argument.—adj. Clinch′er-built (same as Clinker-built).—n. Clinch′er-work the disposition of the side planks of a vessel when the lower edge of one row overlaps the row next under it.
吉纳维芙校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Our natural impulse now is to slightly clinch our teeth when we shake our heads to mean no. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It soon seemed that the encounter was done saving only the final death thrust when Bar Comas slipped in breaking away from a clinch. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The appeals of Confucius to the wisdom of the ancients are always quoted to clinch this suggestion. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I will force Justinian to tell me, he muttered between his clinched teeth. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- He has beaten me in the games, he hissed between his clinched teeth, but he shall not beat me in love. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- One day I got hold of both electrodes of the coil, and it clinched my hand on them so that I couldn't let go. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Hall Pycroft shook his clinched hands in the air. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Wegg, who was all for clinching the nail he had so strongly driven home, announced that Boffin should see it without an hour's delay. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- That clinches it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
布伦达編輯