单词 | bob |
释义 | bob (bɒb ) Word forms: bobs , bobbing , bobbed language note: The plural form for meaning [sense 4] is bob. 1. verb If something bobs, it moves up and down, like something does when it is floating on water. Huge balloons bobbed about in the sky above. [VERB preposition/adverb] The raft bobbed along more quietly. [VERB preposition/adverb] Synonyms: bounce, duck, leap, hop 2. verb If you bob somewhere, you move there quickly so that you disappear from view or come into view. She handed over a form, then bobbed down again behind a typewriter. [VERB adverb/preposition] Synonyms: duck, drop, lower yourself, bend 3. verb When you bob your head, you move it quickly up and down once, for example when you greet someone. She caught my eye and bobbed her head. [VERB noun] Synonyms: nod, lower, bend, bow Bob is also a noun. The young man smiled with a bob of his head. 4. countable noun In Britain, people used to refer to a shilling as a bob. [informal] I've only got ten bob on me. 5. countable noun A bob is a fairly short hair style in which the hair is the same length all the way round, except for the front. 6. bits and bobs phrase Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something. [mainly British, informal] The microscope contains a few hundred dollars-worth of electronic bits and bobs. Image of bob © Subbotina Anna, Shutterstock Collocations: head bobs He leans slightly to one side, and his head bobs. Christianity Today Her melon-sized head bobs to the surface, and her left eye-octopuses have a dominant eye, as people have dominant hands-swivels in its socket to meet mine. Christianity Today Males that encounter intruders in their territory will generally perform elaborate bodily displays, extending and recoiling the dewlap and performing various head bobs or pushups. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Lizards which have mobile dewlaps usually accompany their dewlap movement with head bobs and other displays. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 上下浮动 Japanese: 上下に動く |
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