| 单词 | loosely-fitting | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasloosely-fitting   With participial adjective, as  loosely-adherent,  loosely-branched,  loosely-fitting,  loosely-knit,  loosely-packed,  loosely-woven, etc. Cf. loose-knit adj. at loose adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 3d. ΚΠ 1746    J. Warton Ode to Fancy 9  				O Nymph, with loosely-flowing hair. 1862    H. Spencer First Princ.  ii. xiii. §109. 360  				Not unfrequently a piece of trap [rock] may be found reduced..to a number of loosely-adherent coats, like those of an onion. 1887    C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 299  				A loosely-branched tree. 1899    T. C. Allbutt et al.  Syst. Med. VIII. 903  				[Bacilli] occasionally in loosely packed bundles. 1935    J. S. Huxley  & A. C. Haddon We Europeans i. 13  				It [sc. group-sentiment] has spread beyond the family, the tribe, the loosely-knit federation of tribes to the yet more extensive aggregate, the nation. 1957    R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon xlvi. 153  				It [sc. the Decree of the Central Committee] replaced the loosely-knit Union of Proletarian Writers by a single Union of Soviet Writers. < as lemmas | 
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