单词 | engine-like |
释义 | > as lemmasˈengine-like ˈengine-like adj. ΚΠ 1616 T. Scot 2nd Pt. Philomythie sig. B4v Then Art with rule and line, these vselesse payer Frames (engine-like) a straight clowd climing stayer To mount Fames house. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 136 A sort of mechanical or engine-like twitchings. 1769 A. Machay Pasquin II. xi. 206 The demons compacted in a body, more incessantly to work, engine like, the intended destructions. 1874 H. C. Fish Pulpit Eloquence Nineteenth Cent. (rev. ed.) xxxi. 424 His mind was engine-like in its workings. 2003 Akron (Ohio) Beacon Jrnl. (Nexis) 13 Feb. g3 This gives us honeybees that communicate using the natural sound of wing beats, an enginelike sound. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。