| 单词 | plaything |
| 释义 | plaything (once / 2047 pages) n WORD FAMILY plaything: playthings USAGE EXAMPLESIn the end, “Wonderland” is less about play than it is about playthings and the innovations they midwifed. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) With the other he tosses an apple, a red one — the Big Apple, we are meant to think, his plaything — into the air. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) When older players treat money as a plaything, what’s a younger player supposed to do? The Guardian(Dec 20, 2016) n an artifact designed to be played with Syn|Hypo|Hyper toy ball a spherical object used as a plaything balloonsmall thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck cockhorseanything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult) doll, dollya small replica of a person; used as a toy doll's house, dollhousea small model of a house used as a toy by children Frisbeea light, plastic disk about 10 inches in diameter; propelled with a flip of the wrist for recreation or competition hobby, hobbyhorse, rocking horsea child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride hula-hoopplaything consisting of a tubular plastic hoop for swinging around the hips jack-in-the-boxplaything consisting of a toy clown that jumps out of a box when the lid is opened jungle gyma structure of vertical and horizontal rods where children can climb and play jumping jackplaything consisting of a toy figure with movable joints that can be made to dance by pulling strings kaleidoscopean optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors kiteplaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string Lego, Lego set(trademark) a child's plastic construction set for making mechanical models Meccano, Meccano seta child's construction set for making mechanical models pea shootera straight narrow tube through which pellets (as dried peas) can be blown at a target pinataplaything consisting of a container filled with toys and candy; suspended from a height for blindfolded children to break with sticks pinwheel, pinwheel wind collectora toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind playhouse, wendy houseplaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of pogo stickplaything consisting of a pole with foot rests and a strong spring; propelled by jumping popgunplaything consisting of a toy gun that makes a popping sound rattlea baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken sandbox, sandpile, sandpita plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in dandle board, seesaw, teeter, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting boarda plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end playground slide, slide, sliding boardplaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide catapult, sling, slingshota plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones stick horsea child's plaything consisting on an imitation horse's head on one end of a stick swingmechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth teddy, teddy bearplaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials) spinning top, teetotum, top, whirligiga conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin train seta toy consisting of small models of railroad trains and the track for them to run on squirt gun, squirter, water gun, water pistolplaything consisting of a toy pistol that squirts water yo-yoa toy consisting of a spool that is reeled up and down on a string by motions of the hand beach ball, beachballlarge and light ball; for play at the seaside box kitea kite shaped like a box open at both ends golliwog, golliwogga grotesque black doll humming topa top that makes a humming noise as it spins kachinaa carved doll wearing the costume of a particular Pueblo spirit; usually presented to a child as a gift paper dolla piece of paper cut or folded into the shape of a human being peg topa pear-shaped top made of wood with a metal center pin puppeta doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers rag dolla cloth doll that is stuffed and (usually) painted sawdust dolla doll that is stuffed with sawdust snowballsnow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully) sport kite, stunt kitea maneuverable kite controlled by two lines and flown with both hands toy soldiera doll that resembles a soldier trapezea swing used by circus acrobats tree housea playhouse built in the branches of a tree whip top, whipping topa top that is spun by whipping artefact, artifact a man-made object taken as a whole |
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