Tuft
[tʌft]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a bunch of feathers or hair.
(noun.) a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass.
哈恩編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.
(n.) A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
(n.) A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them.
(v. t.) To separate into tufts.
(v. t.) To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
(v. i.) To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
手打:奥齐
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Knot, bunch.[2]. Cluster, group.[3]. Crest, plume, clump.[4]. (Bot.) Capitulum.
埃尔维斯手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Bunch, cluster, knot, plume
校對:斯宾塞
解釋/意思:
n. a green knoll: a grove clump.
n. a number of small things in a knot: a cluster: a dense head of flowers: (university slang) a titled undergraduate from the tuft or tassel in the cap: an imperial.—v.t. to separate into tufts: to adorn with tufts.—adjs. Tuft′ed Tuft′y.—ns. Tuft′-hunt′er one over-eager to form acquaintance with persons of rank or consequence: a mean hanger-on of the great; Tuft′-hunt′ing the practice of a tuft-hunter.
校對:劳伦斯
例句/造句/用法:
- In our poultry, a large tuft of feathers on the head is generally accompanied by a diminished comb, and a large beard by diminished wattles. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Some were close-shaven, all over, except that a tuft like a paint-brush was left on the end of the tail. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He had already withdrawn his eye from the Peri, and was looking at a humble tuft of daisies which grew by the wicket. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Bradley turned away his haggard face for a few moments, and then said, tearing up a tuft of grass: 'Damn him! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Apply with a tuft of cotton, and finish by rubbing down hard with Canton flannel or a woolen rag. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- When used as linings of cloaks the black tuft from the tail is sewed to the skin at irregular distances. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In this way it could be made to smoke, and finally set fire to a tuft of dried moss, from which he might get a flame for cooking. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- While I was copying the plain inscription for him at his request, I saw him stoop, and gather a tuft of grass from the grave and a little earth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- A comb-shaped slitted plate in the machine has then each slit filled with bristles, sufficient in number to form a single tuft. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- On their backs were oval shields, in their noses huge rings, while from the kinky wool of their heads protruded tufts of gay feathers. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- I found the island to be all rocky, only a little intermingled with tufts of grass, and sweet-smelling herbs. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- If we lay such a magnet on a pile of iron filings, it will be found on lifting the magnet that the filings cling to the ends in tufts, but leave it almost bare in the center (Fig. 222). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Red suns and tufts of fire one by one began to arise, flecking the whole country round. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- In this, brush blocks of varying sizes, but of the same pattern, are bored by the same machine which receives the bristles, and the tufts are inserted as fast as the holes are bored. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- More than once, as tufts of grass came out in my hand or my foot slipped in the wet notches of the rock, I thought that I was gone. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
校對:朱莉娅