Fig
[fɪg] or [fɪɡ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried.
(noun.) Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit.
編輯:拉维恩--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.
(n.) The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.
(n.) A small piece of tobacco.
(n.) The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.
(n.) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.
(n.) To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.
(n.) Figure; dress; array.
埃尔希編輯
解釋/意思:
n. (coll.) figure: dress.—v.t. to dress get up.—n. Fig′gery dressy ornament.
n. the fig-tree (Ficus) or its fruit growing in warm climates: a thing of little consequence.—v.t. (Shak.) to insult by a contemptuous motion of the fingers.—ns. Fig′-leaf the leaf of the fig-tree: an imitation of such a leaf for veiling the private parts of a statue or picture: any scanty clothing (from Gen. iii. 7): a makeshift; Fig′-tree the tree which produces figs.
胡安編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Figs, signifies a malarious condition of the system, if you are eating them, but usually favorable to health and profit if you see them growing. For a young woman to see figs growing, signifies that she will soon wed a wealthy and prominent man.
手打:苏珊
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Nothing. Note, 'I don't care a fig,' etc.
校對:雷明顿
例句/造句/用法:
- As shown in the original designs, Fig. 116, she is a double ender, whose sides were to be 5 feet thick. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Attach a closely wound coil to a sensitive galvanometer (Fig. 237); naturally there is no deflection of the galvanometer needle, because there is no current in the wire. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It was also used in October, 1899, on board the Grande Duchesse to report the international yacht race between the Columbia and the Shamrock at Sandy Hook, as seen in Fig. 13. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The explanation of this well-known fact is found in a further study of the elastic balls (Fig. 170). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- When light passes from air into water, or from any transparent substance into another of different density, its direction is changed, and it emerges along an entirely new path (Fig. 64). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Voltmeters (Fig. 236), or instruments for measuring voltage, are like ammeters except that a wire of very high resistance is in circuit with the movable coil. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The simplest form of electric magnet is shown in Fig. 2. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A recent improvement in the handling of iron from the blast furnace is shown in Fig. 255. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The diagram, Fig. 12,[1] illustrates the operation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The operator in Fig. 6 is shown assembling switch plugs and is in the act of driving home a screw which holds in place the fiber bar over which the cord bends. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This machine, which was intended primarily for the use of the blind, is illustrated in Figs. 137 and 138. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Figs's left made terrific play during all the rest of the combat. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Give it him with the left, Figs my boy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The electromotograph is shown diagrammatically in Figs. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The process is illustrated in Figs. 252, 253 and 254. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Afterwards a number of maidens, with vine-leaf-decorated amphoras of wine, baskets of figs, and bunches of grapes. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Houses on a level with the main supply pipes (Figs. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In Figs. 265 and 266 are shown illustrations from the Sixteenth Century, Fig. 265 representing a muzzle loader, and Fig. 266 a breech-loader. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Cuff was licking me for breaking a bottle of milk, and Figs wouldn't stand it. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Four old Michigan Central cars with rotten sills collapsed in the ditch and went all to pieces, distributing figs, raisins, dates, and candies all over the track and the vicinity. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
整理:温弗雷德