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单词 embroider
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Definition of embroider in English:

embroider

verb ɪmˈbrɔɪdəɛmˈbrɔɪdəəmˈbrɔɪdər
  • 1with object Decorate (cloth) by sewing patterns on it with thread.

    she embroidered a tablecloth
    no object she was teaching the girls how to embroider
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Cloths are normally embroidered individually rather than by pairs or groups of women.
    • Unfortunately, Sewing Mistress made me embroider them, so they look funny, for who ever saw sturdy slippers with bluebirds and flowers on them?
    • Grabbing a black embroidered cloth, he hopped off round Coppergate looking for somewhere to show off his levitating skills.
    • The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered by English needlewomen, although it is generally thought to be a rather inferior example of Anglo-Saxon needlework despite it's huge size.
    • And she was wearing a little red dress with a white collar that was embroidered with patterns in red thread.
    • Geraldine McCughrean, from Newbury, chose embroidered linen from East, which she wore with her beige coat from Gratten for a loose, chic, Virgina Woolf feel.
    • Ideally you will be carrying a little prettily patterned or embroidered envelope containing your toilet tissues, and a similarly attractive hand towel about the size of a face cloth.
    • Featuring a variety of household goods at affordable prices, the high end range includes complex patchwork and embroidered linen.
    • She brings out a suitcase full of intricately embroidered cloths that she is preparing for her daughter's dowry.
    • As a little girl I used to watch my aunt embroider pillow-covers, handkerchiefs, dupattas, baby-dresses, you name it.
    • You can see their feet sticking out from beneath an elaborately embroidered cloth.
    • Elaborately embroidered velvets and silks apart from classic saris and brocades with some material dating back to late 18th Century are showcased.
    • The other woman, Grace, is wearing a long coat patched together out of sky-blue velvet and emerald silk and ivory lace and embroidered upholstery fabric.
    • I looked down at my pink pajama pants, which were embroidered with a pattern of brown bunnies.
    • She had great dedication to the church and some years ago embroidered the altar cloths for Saleen Church.
    • Clasped behind the helmet on the neckband was delicately embroidered silk, decorated with jewels and parrots stitched between painted purple flowers.
    • The sleeves, neckline, and hem had been embroidered with gold thread.
    • Rich, embroidered fabrics such as velvets add class and warmth, and embellishment is definitely in.
    • The scarecrows are variously made of papier mache, embroidered fabric, straw and plastic bags stuffed with newspaper.
    • It also can cause embroidered fabric to appear puckered or stretched.
    Synonyms
    decorate, adorn, ornament, embellish
    sew, stitch
    1. 1.1 Sew (a design) on cloth with thread.
      I embroidered flowers on my jeans
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In later centuries, ladies would compete with each other to embroider beautiful designs on the balls, using silk threads.
      • After the pattern is embroidered on the net, the thread is removed one by one.
      • The whole green dress had delicate gold embroidered intricate flowers all over.
      • She had been sitting in the window, embroidering some impossibly fine design.
      • She had embroidered flowers and lace in a beautiful pattern.
      • There were hand embroidered tiny blue flowers along the bottom, neck line, and cuffs.
      • What's more, there are varying designs on the garments, like embroidered pitch-stitch flowers.
      • She had said nothing, only went back to embroidering a design.
      • Gold embroidered flowers ran their way around her torso.
      • The next time you admire beautiful embroidery on a sari while on window-shopping spree, chances are that a machine embroidered those intricate patterns.
      • Francis creates her work using fabric, scissors and a sewing machine to embroider collages into images.
      • If the person was special I'd cover it with cross-stitch fabric on which I'd embroider some flowers and a quote (can't believe I did such things).
      • On the top of the skirt, it had fawn mesh a little longer than the actual dress, but black flowers were embroidered on it.
      • I began to embroider an intricate design of Sweden's mountains during sunrise.
      • If you have access to an embroidery machine, add an additional embellishment by embroidering a motif over the decorative or straight smocking stitches.
      • For the best results aligning the designs over seams, embroider a sample of the chosen design with black thread on white fabric that is the same or a similar weight and texture as the project fabric.
      • I held my foot out to her so she could get a better look at the cream heels that matched the fabric of my dress, the same little gold embroidered patterns weaving around the shoe, only with little sparkles of gems and beads sewn into them as well.
      • These two objects were regularly embroidered on bras, indicating that the owner would lead a long and happy life.
      • If you are wondering what to do with your old sweaters, get them dyed to give them a new look and embroider some flowers or a paisley print on them.
      • Each one wears a full-length cape of a different color, with an elaborate flower or bamboo design embroidered on it.
  • 2Add fictitious or exaggerated details to (an account) to make it more interesting.

    she embroidered her stories with colourful detail
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He has the ability to make the art of storytelling appear easy, and his films often feel like delicate anecdotes, embroidered with quirky detail and recalled with warm affection.
    • He didn't actually call for Colless's head but he did embroider the story with enough venom for his followers to take up the cudgel.
    • This is almost a novel, with long verbatim passages from various documents of the time and scenes where he embroiders extensively on the scarce facts available.
    • Historical, psychological and spiritual themes embroider the simple ghost story and contribute poignance and depth to what would amount to little more than a campfire tale in terms of plot.
    • Many of my stories were embroidered, exaggerated or wholly invented.
    • After a certain amount of time they have very little new or interesting to add and there is a temptation to embroider.
    • Many refuse, choosing instead to embroider on whatever rumors, exaggerations and pet theories are circulating in the occupied territories.
    • One such narrative, based on truth but embroidered with details highlighting the message, is the tale of Simpson and his donkey.
    • Though if you made up and told her about fake girlfriends and fake relationships and other details to embroider the lie, then you've dug a deeper hole than I'm interpreting.
    • Marius, unprepared for this, had to flee (the flight was later embroidered with dramatic detail), finding safety at Cercina, a colony of his veterans off Africa.
    • Taylor-Taylor, in particular, delights in embroidering stories for his own and the media's entertainment.
    • Lang biographers recall that the director often referred to this discussion in later life and liked to embroider some of the details.
    Synonyms
    elaborate, embellish, colour, enlarge on, exaggerate, catastrophize
    add detail to, go into detail about, flesh out, add flesh to
    touch up, dress up, gild, ginger up
    informal jazz up

Derivatives

  • embroiderer

  • nounɛmˈbrɔɪdərəɪmˈbrɔɪdərəəmˈbrɔɪd(ə)rər
    • We were the embroiderers for Napoleon III and his court.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While these markers of the embroiderers ' identities have been left in place in some of the cloths photographed for this article, one imagines that most buyers would remove them.
      • While the various embroiderers who used this subject matter presumably had no personal experience of floods, the theme would nevertheless have allowed for a focus on concerns and anxieties that were more immediate to them.
      • They are then cut up by the women embroiderers, placed together as three separate widths with different pattern and color front and back, then sewn together again using twisted yellow silk thread.
      • While there is no evidence to suggest that embroiderers set out to comment on their source material, their works do nevertheless point to the ways in which the mass media may influence readers' thoughts and ideas.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French enbrouder, from en- 'in, on' + Old French brouder, broisder 'decorate with embroidery', of Germanic origin.

Rhymes

avoider
 
 

Definition of embroider in US English:

embroider

verbəmˈbroidərəmˈbrɔɪdər
[with object]
  • 1Decorate (cloth) by sewing patterns on it with thread.

    no object she was teaching one of the girls how to embroider
    she had already embroidered a dozen little nighties for the babies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The other woman, Grace, is wearing a long coat patched together out of sky-blue velvet and emerald silk and ivory lace and embroidered upholstery fabric.
    • And she was wearing a little red dress with a white collar that was embroidered with patterns in red thread.
    • As a little girl I used to watch my aunt embroider pillow-covers, handkerchiefs, dupattas, baby-dresses, you name it.
    • It also can cause embroidered fabric to appear puckered or stretched.
    • Grabbing a black embroidered cloth, he hopped off round Coppergate looking for somewhere to show off his levitating skills.
    • She had great dedication to the church and some years ago embroidered the altar cloths for Saleen Church.
    • Ideally you will be carrying a little prettily patterned or embroidered envelope containing your toilet tissues, and a similarly attractive hand towel about the size of a face cloth.
    • The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered by English needlewomen, although it is generally thought to be a rather inferior example of Anglo-Saxon needlework despite it's huge size.
    • Geraldine McCughrean, from Newbury, chose embroidered linen from East, which she wore with her beige coat from Gratten for a loose, chic, Virgina Woolf feel.
    • I looked down at my pink pajama pants, which were embroidered with a pattern of brown bunnies.
    • The sleeves, neckline, and hem had been embroidered with gold thread.
    • Unfortunately, Sewing Mistress made me embroider them, so they look funny, for who ever saw sturdy slippers with bluebirds and flowers on them?
    • She brings out a suitcase full of intricately embroidered cloths that she is preparing for her daughter's dowry.
    • The scarecrows are variously made of papier mache, embroidered fabric, straw and plastic bags stuffed with newspaper.
    • Clasped behind the helmet on the neckband was delicately embroidered silk, decorated with jewels and parrots stitched between painted purple flowers.
    • You can see their feet sticking out from beneath an elaborately embroidered cloth.
    • Cloths are normally embroidered individually rather than by pairs or groups of women.
    • Elaborately embroidered velvets and silks apart from classic saris and brocades with some material dating back to late 18th Century are showcased.
    • Featuring a variety of household goods at affordable prices, the high end range includes complex patchwork and embroidered linen.
    • Rich, embroidered fabrics such as velvets add class and warmth, and embellishment is definitely in.
    Synonyms
    decorate, adorn, ornament, embellish
    1. 1.1 Produce (a design) on cloth with thread.
      I embroidered flowers on my jeans
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Gold embroidered flowers ran their way around her torso.
      • Each one wears a full-length cape of a different color, with an elaborate flower or bamboo design embroidered on it.
      • Francis creates her work using fabric, scissors and a sewing machine to embroider collages into images.
      • The whole green dress had delicate gold embroidered intricate flowers all over.
      • She had said nothing, only went back to embroidering a design.
      • After the pattern is embroidered on the net, the thread is removed one by one.
      • What's more, there are varying designs on the garments, like embroidered pitch-stitch flowers.
      • The next time you admire beautiful embroidery on a sari while on window-shopping spree, chances are that a machine embroidered those intricate patterns.
      • There were hand embroidered tiny blue flowers along the bottom, neck line, and cuffs.
      • I held my foot out to her so she could get a better look at the cream heels that matched the fabric of my dress, the same little gold embroidered patterns weaving around the shoe, only with little sparkles of gems and beads sewn into them as well.
      • In later centuries, ladies would compete with each other to embroider beautiful designs on the balls, using silk threads.
      • If you have access to an embroidery machine, add an additional embellishment by embroidering a motif over the decorative or straight smocking stitches.
      • I began to embroider an intricate design of Sweden's mountains during sunrise.
      • She had embroidered flowers and lace in a beautiful pattern.
      • On the top of the skirt, it had fawn mesh a little longer than the actual dress, but black flowers were embroidered on it.
      • These two objects were regularly embroidered on bras, indicating that the owner would lead a long and happy life.
      • If you are wondering what to do with your old sweaters, get them dyed to give them a new look and embroider some flowers or a paisley print on them.
      • She had been sitting in the window, embroidering some impossibly fine design.
      • For the best results aligning the designs over seams, embroider a sample of the chosen design with black thread on white fabric that is the same or a similar weight and texture as the project fabric.
      • If the person was special I'd cover it with cross-stitch fabric on which I'd embroider some flowers and a quote (can't believe I did such things).
  • 2Add fictitious or exaggerated details to (an account) to make it more interesting.

    she embroidered her stories with colorful detail
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Marius, unprepared for this, had to flee (the flight was later embroidered with dramatic detail), finding safety at Cercina, a colony of his veterans off Africa.
    • Many refuse, choosing instead to embroider on whatever rumors, exaggerations and pet theories are circulating in the occupied territories.
    • Historical, psychological and spiritual themes embroider the simple ghost story and contribute poignance and depth to what would amount to little more than a campfire tale in terms of plot.
    • He has the ability to make the art of storytelling appear easy, and his films often feel like delicate anecdotes, embroidered with quirky detail and recalled with warm affection.
    • Many of my stories were embroidered, exaggerated or wholly invented.
    • After a certain amount of time they have very little new or interesting to add and there is a temptation to embroider.
    • This is almost a novel, with long verbatim passages from various documents of the time and scenes where he embroiders extensively on the scarce facts available.
    • Lang biographers recall that the director often referred to this discussion in later life and liked to embroider some of the details.
    • He didn't actually call for Colless's head but he did embroider the story with enough venom for his followers to take up the cudgel.
    • One such narrative, based on truth but embroidered with details highlighting the message, is the tale of Simpson and his donkey.
    • Though if you made up and told her about fake girlfriends and fake relationships and other details to embroider the lie, then you've dug a deeper hole than I'm interpreting.
    • Taylor-Taylor, in particular, delights in embroidering stories for his own and the media's entertainment.
    Synonyms
    elaborate, embellish, colour, enlarge on, exaggerate, catastrophize

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French enbrouder, from en- ‘in, on’ + Old French brouder, broisder ‘decorate with embroidery’, of Germanic origin.

 
 
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