Peel

[piːl] or [pil]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the rind of a fruit or vegetable.

(noun.) British politician (1788-1850).

校對:迈克尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

(n.) A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.

(v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.

(v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.

(v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.

(v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.

(n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

整理:希欧多尔

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Pare (by stripping or pulling), hull, shell.

v. n. Exfoliate, come off (as skin or rind), peel off, shell off.

n. Rind, skin.

編輯:拉维恩

解釋/意思:

v.t. to strip off the skin or bark: to bare.—v.i. to come off as the skin: to lose the skin: (slang) to undress.—n. the skin rind or bark: (print.) a wooden pole with short cross-piece for carrying printed sheets to the poles on which they are to be dried: the wash or blade of an oar—not the loom: a mark () for cattle for persons who cannot write &c.—adj. Peeled stripped of skin rind or bark: plundered.—ns. Peel′er one who peels a plunderer; Peel′ing the act of stripping: that which is stripped off: (print.) the removing of the layers of a paper overlay to get a lighter impression.

v.t. to plunder: to pillage.

n. a small Border fortress.—Also Peel′-tow′er.

n. a baker's wooden shovel: a fire-shovel.

手打:弗拉德