Ruff

[rʌf]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit.

(noun.) common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season.

卡洛斯錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.

(n.) The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.

(v. i. & t.) To trump.

(n.) A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.

(n.) Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.

(n.) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.

(n.) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.

(n.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.

(n.) A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.

(n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.

(n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.

(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.

(v. t.) To ruffle; to disorder.

(v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

(v. t.) To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.

(n.) Alt. of Ruffe

安塞姆校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Ruffle.

錄入:莫拉

解釋/意思:

n. ruggedness.—v.t. to heckle flax on a coarse heckle: to nap hats.—n. Ruff′er a coarse heckle for flax.—adj. Ruff′y-tuff′y disordered rough.—adv. helter-skelter pell-mell.

n. an ornament of frills formerly worn round the neck: anything plaited: a bird belonging to the sandpiper sub-family of the Snipe family the male with an erectile ruff during the breeding season—fem. Reeve: a band of long hair growing round the neck of some dogs: (mach.) an annular ridge formed on a shaft to prevent motion endwise: a breed of domestic pigeons: (obs.) a display.—v.t. to pucker: to draw up in folds: to ruffle disorder: in falconry to hit without trussing: (Scot.) to applaud by making noise with hands or feet.—adj. Ruffed having a ruff as the ruffed grouse.

n. an old game at cards: the act of trumping when the player has no cards of the suit left.—v.t. to trump in this way.

n. a small fresh-water fish of the Perch family abundant in England about six inches long with only one dorsal fin.—Also Pope.

n. a low vibrating beat of a drum.

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