Wing
[wɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a movable organ for flying (one of a pair).
(noun.) one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane.
(noun.) a stage area out of sight of the audience.
(noun.) the wing of a fowl; 'he preferred the drumsticks to the wings'.
(noun.) a unit of military aircraft.
(noun.) a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function; 'they are the progressive wing of the Republican Party'.
(noun.) (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft.
(noun.) a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side.
格温錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.
(n.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
(n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.
(n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.
(n.) Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.
(n.) Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
(n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
(n.) An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
(n.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.
(n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
(n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
(n.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
(n.) One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.
(n.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.
(n.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work.
(n.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
(n.) The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.
(n.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
(n.) One of the sides of the stags in a theater.
(v. t.) To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.
(v. t.) To supply with wings or sidepieces.
(v. t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
(v. t.) To move through in flight; to fly through.
(v. t.) To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.
阿德莱德手打
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Pennon, pinion.[2]. Side-piece.[3]. (Mil.) Flank.
手打:路易
解釋/意思:
n. the organ of a bird or other animal or insect by which it flies: flight means of flying: anything resembling a wing any side-piece the side of a building &c.: one of the longer sides of crown-works or horn-works in fortification: the flank corps or division of an army on either side: the ships on either extremity of a fleet ranged in line: (fig.) protection.—v.t. to furnish or transport with wings: to lend speed to: to supply with side-pieces: to bear in flight to traverse by flying: to wound on the wing to wound a person in arm or shoulder.—v.i. to soar on the wing.—adv. Wing′-and-wing′ the condition of a ship sailing before the wind with studding sails on both sides.—n. Wing′-case the horny case or cover over the wings of some insects as the beetle.—adj. Winged furnished with wings: swift: wounded in the wing: lofty sublime: alate abounding in wings.—adv. Wing′edly on or by wings.—adjs. Wing′-foot′ed having wings on the feet aliped; Wing′less without wings.—ns. Wing′let the bastard wing or alula of a bird: the pterygium of a weevil; Wing′-shell a stromb: an aviculoid bivalve a hammer-oyster: a wing-snail; Wing′-shoot′ing the act or practice of shooting flying birds; Wing′-shot a shot at a bird on the wing: one who shoots flying birds.—adj. shot in the wing or while on the wing.—adj. Wing′y having wings: soaring on wings.—Winged bull a common form in Assyrian sculpture symbolic of domination.—Make Take wing to depart; On Upon the wing flying in motion: departing; On the wings of the wind with the highest speed; Under one's wing under one's protection.
阿斯特編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream that you have wings, foretells that you will experience grave fears for the safety of some one gone on a long journey away from you. To see the wings of fowls or birds, denotes that you will finally overcome adversity and rise to wealthy degrees and honor.
整理:奥蒂斯
例句/造句/用法:
- There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There is no one else, and no sound could alarm those who are in the farther wing. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Be steady, and wing him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Rebecca, may I give you a wing? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It circled (owing to the guys of one wing being loose) to the right, completing two circles and beginning a third as it advanced; so that the whole course had the form of a spiral. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- To make a direct attack from either wing would cause a slaughter of our men that even success would not justify. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- McClernand commanding, will constitute the right wing. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- During my journey I might dream, and with buoyant wings reach the summit of life's high edifice. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Yet Selden's manner at the Brys' had brought the flutter of wings so close that they seemed to be beating in her own heart. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The wings have two black bars. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The Wrights’ system of balance, the great original feature of their invention, is attained by what is called the warping of the wings. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- They pluck his feathers now and then and clip his wings, but he sings, he sings! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Our lines covered his front, with the six miles separating the two wings guarded by but a single division. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A solitary sea-gull winged its flight over our heads, to seek its nest in a cleft of the precipice. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The Wrights adopted this type, believing that it was the strongest form, and could be made more compact and be more easily managed than the single plane, or the many-winged type. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The winged furies were now prowling gossips who dropped in on each other for tea. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- In her death she winged her way back to her calm untroubled youth, and cancelled all the rest. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Even in the shallow Marshalsea, the ever young Archer shot off a few featherless arrows now and then from a mouldy bow, and winged a Collegian or two. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The winged lion is found every where--and doubtless here, where the winged lion is, no harm can come. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Ursula went straight to the station, hastening heedlessly on winged feet. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
編輯:沃尔夫冈