Reel
[riːl] or [ril]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps.
(noun.) winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod.
(noun.) a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
(noun.) music composed for dancing a reel.
(verb.) wind onto or off a reel.
巴纳德編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
(n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.
(n.) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
(n.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
(v. t.) To roll.
(v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
(v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
(v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
(n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
校對:鲁本
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Totter, stagger, falter.
阿玛莉亚整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Totter, stagger, falter
ANT:Stand_firm, stand_steady
埃莉诺校對
解釋/意思:
v.i. to stagger: to vacillate.—n. giddiness.—adv. Reel′-rall (Scot.) topsy-turvy.
n. a rolling or turning frame for winding yarn &c.—v.t. to wind on a reel.—adj. Reel′able capable of being reeled.—ns. Reel′-click an attachment to an angler's reel which checks the line from running out too freely; Reel′-cott′on sewing cotton thread wound on reels or spools; Reel′er one who reels: the grasshopper-warbler; Reel′-hold′er a rotatory frame to hold spools or reels of thread used in sewing: one of the watch in a man-of-war who hauls in the line when the log is heaved to ascertain the ship's speed; Reel′ing-machine′ a machine for winding thread on spools or reels: a machine which winds into hanks the cotton yarn received from the bobbins of the spinning-frames; Reel′-line a fishing-line used on a reel by anglers esp. the part reeled as distinguished from that cast; Reel′-plate the metal plate of a fishing-reel that fits into the reel-seat; Reel′-seat the groove on an angler's rod which receives the reel.—Reel off to give out with rapidity or fluency.
n. a lively Scottish dance for two couples or more its music generally written in common time of four crotchets in a measure but sometimes in jig time of six quavers: music for such a dance.—v.i. to dance a reel.
巴纳德編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- He drove it back to his workshop and made certain changes in the reel and the divider. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He next sent a boy to buy a reel of cotton, and told his assistants he was going to see what a carbonized thread would do. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The finished product is delivered to a belt-driven coiling reel on which it is wound. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The cotton, mixed with seed, is fed to the roll box J, in which a sort of reel F continually turns the cotton. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The sensation made her brain reel, and she tried to shut out consciousness by pressing her hands against her eyes. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- To these he next added a revolving reel, that would lift any grain that had fallen and straighten it, and a platform to catch the grain as it was cut and fell. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This related to the cutter bar, the divider, and reel post. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- We had to allow for the reeling of the ship to the right or the left. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The one staid foundation of her home, of her idea of her beloved father, seemed reeling and rocking. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- He lay still in this strange, horrific reeling for some time, purely unconscious. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- By July the tide was turning and the Germans were reeling back. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There's but one thing steady and quiet i' all this reeling world, and, reason or no reason, I'll cling to that. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Ringwood) passes reeling by, holding six basins. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The receiving instrument at the other end of the line was constructed upon much the same general lines as the transmitter, consisting of a metallic drum and reels for the paper tape. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- After being twisted the strands are wound around reels in readiness for the second, or laying process. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Insulated wires were wound upon reels, two men and a mule detailed to each reel. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A wedding at home means five and six-handed reels by the hour; and they do a man's legs no good when he's over forty. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- In this the full reels are lifted by overhead chains and are placed in the vertical flyers of the laying-machine. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The reels upon which the film is wound are mounted above and below--the upper is the feed reel and the lower is the take-up reel. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- After two or three ineffectual attempts, he reeled, and fell heavily to the ground. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I reeled beneath their blows which fell upon me in perfect torrents; my head swam; all was black, and I went down beneath them to oblivion. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- For a time hunger and sleep contended, till the constellations reeled before my eyes and then were lost. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Ship after ship reeled and staggered into uselessness beneath the pitiless fire that we were undergoing. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- When full of liquor, he reeled silently home. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- As long as he was in sight of the public-house, the man reeled about in the most disgraceful manner. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The world reeled and passed into nothingness for Gudrun, she could not know any more. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
編輯:奥斯本