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单词 cowl
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Definition of cowl in English:

cowl

noun kaʊlkaʊl
  • 1A large loose hood, especially one forming part of a monk's habit.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's a rose-pink bias-cut cocktail dress with a cowl neckline, and little rose-pink beads scattered down the front.
    • ‘Drink this for me,’ I say and pull his cowl down.
    • He pulled a white hooded robe on and threw the cowl over his face, obscuring his features entirely.
    • Seraph stopped when the cloaked figure pulled his cowl down, to reveal a young girl.
    • The figure was clad in black, with the cowl of his cloak hiding his face.
    • The advisor pulled back his cowl, and his balding pate, though thick of long, dark hair, shone in the torch-light.
    • The scapula was meant to protect the chemise, and had a built in hood or cowl.
    • He's a slender, pale man, whose face is obscured by a black cowl.
    • No face was visible from beneath the depths of the cowls.
    • Then something caught his cowl and pulled it off his head.
    • He hid his face in the cowl of his coat, trying not to pay attention to the people staring at him.
    • His cowl has a vaguely avian appearance, with a visor in the shape of a beak.
    • I pull the cowl down to see the stitch I slashed.
    • He said as he clasped the cowl of a cloak around his neck.
    • The four put their cowls back over their heads, then left the room, no one bothering to extinguish the lamp.
    • The cowl of his cloak was raised, but I could see his eyes.
    • The beastly men now wore black cowls across their heads.
    • Another woman walks to her side, in black, with a white cowl.
    • He stood behind them, eyes peering out under the black cowl.
    • His cowl had fallen back, exposing his tonsure.
    • Danovin sneered, hidden in his cowl, and grumbled under his breath.
    1. 1.1 A monk's hooded, sleeveless habit.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Anyone who ever did know the man behind the hooded cowl died long ago and in a horrible fashion.
      • A priest in a long black cowl is firing burning flare at Jephthan.
      • Then, an army of warriors and men dressed in black cowls came from the direction of Plunder castle and sacked the town.
      • A train of figures in tattered and bloody cowls were being herded toward the mouth of a cavern.
      • The Dampminer looked up at the men in black cowls.
      • He had donned the garb of a Hammalite monk, wearing a long whitish-grey cowl.
      • It can be difficult tell a brown monk's cowl from a soldier's dark dress when all look nearly black.
      • Yorkshire's own outlaw, Robin Hood, was among the original hoodie wearers, alongside monks and friars who wore cowls.
      • The three figures had human faces - young, male faces under monk-like cowls.
      • He's Batman without the cowl, but the sunglasses substitute nicely.
      • He looked at my monk's cowl with an odd, hesitant smile.
      • She shoved back the wrap his cowl ended in and found a dagger and an empty sheath strapped to his waist.
      • It was dressed in the black cowl of a priest.
      • Although resembling monks by virtue of their cowls and heavy draperies, the majority of the mourners are laymen.
      • All of them - advisers and Chancellor alike - wore skullcaps and cowls.
      • A new cowl sits on a shelf beside several others.
      • During my time at Ampleforth there were the monks wandering down the corridors in their cowls.
      • She stared at the children's white robes and the guards' black cowls.
      • In one fluid movement, he discarded cowl and robe, and stood girded in his mail of scorched black iron.
      • I undo his collar and remove his cowl so that I can get to his cuts and bruises.
    2. 1.2 A cloak with wide sleeves worn by members of Benedictine orders.
  • 2The hood-shaped covering of a chimney or ventilation shaft.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While architectural salvage was a condition of the eventual consent for demolition, the distinctive cowls have disappeared.
    • Remove the top of the roof cowl by loosening the bolts.
    • These cowls would be used where rain and/or birds or other pests are a problem.
    • Its distinctive cowls have disappeared forever from the city's skyline.
    • I told the council about this and they came down and put a cowl on the chimney.
  • 3

    another term for cowling
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I liked the bit about the engine cowls scraping along the runway as the mortar bombs stirred in the hold.
    • From the landing gear, a single bracing wire extended into the cowl and was fixed to the motor mount.
    • We opened the top cowl, and he checked the cylinders with his hand to see if one might be running cool.
    • I was already taking care of the props and cowls when there was a sudden sinking sensation!
    • Pop the cowl on your plane after it has sat quietly on the ramp for a couple of months.
    • The craft had the cowl, upper wing surface, and tail painted bright yellow.
    • The cowl was tightly-wrapped sheet aluminum and the area around the snug cockpit was also covered in sheet aluminum.
    • Three basic versions are available - the chassis cab, crew cab and the chassis cowl.
    • Once the cowl and inspection covers have been removed, it's time to begin using the checklist.
    • Fitted with a three-blade propeller, the engine was enclosed in a narrow ring cowl.
    • Early Debonairs had 225 hp under the cowl, yet still offered cruise speeds near 160 knots on only about 13 gph.
    • Externally, the most noticeable difference between the 172 and the 175 is the slight hump on the engine cowl behind the propeller.
    • Most POHs include a little walkaround map that usually starts with checking the oil on the right side of the engine cowl.
    • Shut off the engine and remove the cowl or whatever is necessary to drain the oil.
    • I'll get all the engine cowls off, get all the dust out of it, and a lot of areas have to be repolished.
    • When completed, the aircraft received a spectacular overall yellow color scheme with a blue cowl fading back into billowing flames.
    • In order to ensure a very smooth fuselage line, the windscreen started immediately behind the cowl.
    • I painted the white checkerboard cowls, shark's mouth, and the name Butch, My Baby.
    • The first aircraft is named School-Boy Rowe while the second has fearsome shark teeth adorning its cowls.
    • Spot and seam welding are used to join secondary structures, such as cowls, to bulkheads and skins.

Derivatives

  • cowled

  • adjective
    • They all fell silent as a tall older man wearing a black cowled robe stepped down in front of the rows of benches…
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Torchlight processions and cowled figures moving in procession have been seen in the ruins.
      • The gondola had a swinging lantern on one end and carried a robed and cowled figure with a pole.
      • Within its tomb-like confines stood four faceless forms shrouded in the folds of richly woven and cowled black robes.
      • Suddenly a cowled man appeared above him, chanting in a strange language.

Origin

Old English cugele, cūle, from ecclesiastical Latin cuculla, from Latin cucullus 'hood of a cloak'.

Rhymes

afoul, befoul, foul, fowl, growl, howl, jowl, owl, prowl, Rabaul, scowl, yowl
 
 

Definition of cowl in US English:

cowl

nounkoulkaʊl
  • 1A large loose hood, especially one forming part of a monk's habit.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He's a slender, pale man, whose face is obscured by a black cowl.
    • He said as he clasped the cowl of a cloak around his neck.
    • The four put their cowls back over their heads, then left the room, no one bothering to extinguish the lamp.
    • He pulled a white hooded robe on and threw the cowl over his face, obscuring his features entirely.
    • He hid his face in the cowl of his coat, trying not to pay attention to the people staring at him.
    • Then something caught his cowl and pulled it off his head.
    • Seraph stopped when the cloaked figure pulled his cowl down, to reveal a young girl.
    • The scapula was meant to protect the chemise, and had a built in hood or cowl.
    • Another woman walks to her side, in black, with a white cowl.
    • The beastly men now wore black cowls across their heads.
    • The advisor pulled back his cowl, and his balding pate, though thick of long, dark hair, shone in the torch-light.
    • His cowl had fallen back, exposing his tonsure.
    • It's a rose-pink bias-cut cocktail dress with a cowl neckline, and little rose-pink beads scattered down the front.
    • The figure was clad in black, with the cowl of his cloak hiding his face.
    • Danovin sneered, hidden in his cowl, and grumbled under his breath.
    • He stood behind them, eyes peering out under the black cowl.
    • No face was visible from beneath the depths of the cowls.
    • The cowl of his cloak was raised, but I could see his eyes.
    • ‘Drink this for me,’ I say and pull his cowl down.
    • I pull the cowl down to see the stitch I slashed.
    • His cowl has a vaguely avian appearance, with a visor in the shape of a beak.
    1. 1.1 A monk's hooded, sleeveless habit.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In one fluid movement, he discarded cowl and robe, and stood girded in his mail of scorched black iron.
      • It was dressed in the black cowl of a priest.
      • He's Batman without the cowl, but the sunglasses substitute nicely.
      • She shoved back the wrap his cowl ended in and found a dagger and an empty sheath strapped to his waist.
      • He had donned the garb of a Hammalite monk, wearing a long whitish-grey cowl.
      • A new cowl sits on a shelf beside several others.
      • Then, an army of warriors and men dressed in black cowls came from the direction of Plunder castle and sacked the town.
      • The Dampminer looked up at the men in black cowls.
      • He looked at my monk's cowl with an odd, hesitant smile.
      • A priest in a long black cowl is firing burning flare at Jephthan.
      • All of them - advisers and Chancellor alike - wore skullcaps and cowls.
      • She stared at the children's white robes and the guards' black cowls.
      • Anyone who ever did know the man behind the hooded cowl died long ago and in a horrible fashion.
      • During my time at Ampleforth there were the monks wandering down the corridors in their cowls.
      • Although resembling monks by virtue of their cowls and heavy draperies, the majority of the mourners are laymen.
      • It can be difficult tell a brown monk's cowl from a soldier's dark dress when all look nearly black.
      • Yorkshire's own outlaw, Robin Hood, was among the original hoodie wearers, alongside monks and friars who wore cowls.
      • A train of figures in tattered and bloody cowls were being herded toward the mouth of a cavern.
      • I undo his collar and remove his cowl so that I can get to his cuts and bruises.
      • The three figures had human faces - young, male faces under monk-like cowls.
    2. 1.2 A cloak with wide sleeves worn by members of Benedictine orders.
    3. 1.3 The hood-shaped covering of a chimney or ventilation shaft.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While architectural salvage was a condition of the eventual consent for demolition, the distinctive cowls have disappeared.
      • Remove the top of the roof cowl by loosening the bolts.
      • These cowls would be used where rain and/or birds or other pests are a problem.
      • I told the council about this and they came down and put a cowl on the chimney.
      • Its distinctive cowls have disappeared forever from the city's skyline.
    4. 1.4US The part of a motor vehicle that supports the windshield and houses the dashboard.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A new and improved cowl had been designed and built, but otherwise the racer was basically the same.
      • The exterior mirrors have been removed from the doors and attached, instead, to the body-side cowl, greatly reducing vibration.
      • Overall, the instruments are well positioned, and twin cowls for the main dials add to the car's overall sporting theme.
      • There's little to no cowl shake, even on imperfect roads.
      • Extra sound deadening material is used under the carpet, in the instrument panel cowl, and under the hood.
    5. 1.5
      another term for cowling
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Externally, the most noticeable difference between the 172 and the 175 is the slight hump on the engine cowl behind the propeller.
      • Most POHs include a little walkaround map that usually starts with checking the oil on the right side of the engine cowl.
      • Spot and seam welding are used to join secondary structures, such as cowls, to bulkheads and skins.
      • We opened the top cowl, and he checked the cylinders with his hand to see if one might be running cool.
      • I'll get all the engine cowls off, get all the dust out of it, and a lot of areas have to be repolished.
      • The craft had the cowl, upper wing surface, and tail painted bright yellow.
      • In order to ensure a very smooth fuselage line, the windscreen started immediately behind the cowl.
      • From the landing gear, a single bracing wire extended into the cowl and was fixed to the motor mount.
      • I was already taking care of the props and cowls when there was a sudden sinking sensation!
      • The first aircraft is named School-Boy Rowe while the second has fearsome shark teeth adorning its cowls.
      • I liked the bit about the engine cowls scraping along the runway as the mortar bombs stirred in the hold.
      • The cowl was tightly-wrapped sheet aluminum and the area around the snug cockpit was also covered in sheet aluminum.
      • When completed, the aircraft received a spectacular overall yellow color scheme with a blue cowl fading back into billowing flames.
      • Shut off the engine and remove the cowl or whatever is necessary to drain the oil.
      • Once the cowl and inspection covers have been removed, it's time to begin using the checklist.
      • Three basic versions are available - the chassis cab, crew cab and the chassis cowl.
      • I painted the white checkerboard cowls, shark's mouth, and the name Butch, My Baby.
      • Early Debonairs had 225 hp under the cowl, yet still offered cruise speeds near 160 knots on only about 13 gph.
      • Fitted with a three-blade propeller, the engine was enclosed in a narrow ring cowl.
      • Pop the cowl on your plane after it has sat quietly on the ramp for a couple of months.

Origin

Old English cugele, cūle, from ecclesiastical Latin cuculla, from Latin cucullus ‘hood of a cloak’.

 
 
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