wiry

Word family (noun) wire wireless wiring (adjective) wiry wired wireless (verb) wire

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwirywir‧y /ˈwaɪəri $ ˈwaɪri/ adjective 1 THIN PERSONSTRONG PERSONsomeone who is wiry is thin but has strong muscles2 BENDwiry hair or grass is stiff and strongExamples from the Corpuswiry• Short, wiry, and with a dark and rather damaged complexion, he could have been a retired flyweight boxer.• The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.• Richard Cory was a little man with wiry hair.• a wiry little Broadway show dancer from Puerto Rico• Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and deep-set eyes.• About the only people who can move rapidly over such terrain are the tough and wiry park service hunters.• His father, Michael, was a short, wiry, quiet man, a sheet-metal worker.• A thin wiry woman, her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling.

单词	wiry
释义	wiry Word family (noun) wire wireless wiring (adjective) wiry wired wireless (verb) wire From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwirywir‧y /ˈwaɪəri $ ˈwaɪri/ adjective 1 THIN PERSONSTRONG PERSONsomeone who is wiry is thin but has strong muscles2 BENDwiry hair or grass is stiff and strongExamples from the Corpuswiry• Short, wiry, and with a dark and rather damaged complexion, he could have been a retired flyweight boxer.• The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.• Richard Cory was a little man with wiry hair.• a wiry little Broadway show dancer from Puerto Rico• Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and deep-set eyes.• About the only people who can move rapidly over such terrain are the tough and wiry park service hunters.• His father, Michael, was a short, wiry, quiet man, a sheet-metal worker.• A thin wiry woman, her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling.
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