Domino

['dɒmɪnəʊ] or ['dɑməno]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots.

(noun.) a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes.

(noun.) a loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask as part of a masquerade costume.

(noun.) United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928).

校對:惠特尼--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.

(n.) A mourning veil formerly worn by women.

(n.) A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.

(n.) A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.

(n.) A person wearing a domino.

(n.) A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played

(n.) One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.

整理:塞丽娜

解釋/意思:

n. a cape with a hood worn by a master or by a priest: a long cloak of black silk with a hood used at masked balls a person wearing such: one of the oblong pieces with which the game of Dom′inoes (-nōz) is played usually twenty-eight in number divided into two compartments each of which is blank or marked with from one to six spots.

校對:奥利弗