Fin

[fɪn]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals.

(noun.) a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish.

(verb.) show the fins above the water while swimming; 'The sharks were finning near the surface'.

(verb.) propel oneself through the water in a finning motion.

(verb.) equip (a car) with fins.

編輯:勒罗伊--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub.

(n.) End; conclusion; object.

(n.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.

(n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.

(n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin

(n.) The hand.

(n.) A blade of whalebone.

(n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.

(n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.

(n.) A feather; a spline.

(n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.

編輯:维姬

解釋/意思:

n. the organ by which a fish balances itself and swims.—n. Fin′-back a finner or fin-whale.—adjs. Fin′-foot′ed having feet with toes connected by a membrane; Finned having fins; Fin′ny furnished with fins.—n. Fin′-ray one of the rods or rays supporting a fish's fin.—adj. Fin′-toed having feet with membranes connecting the toes as aquatic birds.

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