Phalanx

['fælæŋks]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) any of the bones of the fingers or toes.

(noun.) a body of troops in close array.

(noun.) any closely ranked crowd of people.

錄入:洛伦佐--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.

(n.) Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union.

(n.) A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.

(n.) One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.

(n.) A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.

手打:奥拉夫

解釋/意思:

n. a line of battle: a square battalion of heavy-armed infantry drawn up in ranks and files close and deep: any compact body of men: one of the small bones of the fingers and toes:—pl. Phalan′ges or Phal′anxes.

錄入:欧文