| 单词 | mouth |
| 释义 | mouth (once / 47 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4vn There are many meanings of mouth, but they all relate to the hole from which you eat, speak, and breathe. Like the mouth below your nose, other mouths are openings or have something to do with speaking. The opening at the top of a jar or bottle is its mouth. The place where a river meets the ocean is the mouth of the river. It’s called mouthing off when you give someone lip or sass. You can mouth the words to a song without singing them. A mouth (or mouthpiece) is someone who speaks for other people, like a lawyer. WORD FAMILYmouth: mouthed, mouthful, mouthing, mouthless, mouthlike, mouths+/mouthful: mouthfuls USAGE EXAMPLESHe developed a fungal infection in his mouth — a fallout of an immune system compromised by chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) “It kind of left a bad taste in our mouth after the Big Ten championship game,” Edwards said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) “I saw mouths moving, but I heard no voices,” he later said. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge he stuffed his mouth with candy Syn|Hypo|Hyper oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris cakehole, gob, hole, maw, trap, yap informal terms for the mouth rima a narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts 2n the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening she wiped lipstick from her mouth Hypo|Hyper cytostome mouth of a protozoan beak, bill, neb, nib, peckerhorny projecting mouth of a bird beakbeaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles) cerethe fleshy, waxy covering at the base of the upper beak of some birds opening, orifice, porta an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity 3n a person conceived as a consumer of food he has four mouths to feed Hyper eater, feeder someone who consumes food for nourishment 4v touch with the mouth 2Hyper touch make physical contact with, come in contact with 1n an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge) he rode into the mouth of the canyon they built a fire at the mouth of the cave Hyper gap, opening an open or empty space in or between things 2n the opening of a jar or bottle 3the jar had a wide mouth Hyper opening a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made n the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water 4New York is at the mouth of the Hudson Hyper formation, geological formation (geology) the geological features of the earth 1v express in speech Syn|Hypo|Hyper speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize verbalise, verbalize be verbose read look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed phonate, vocalise, vocalizeutter speech sounds trollspeak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice beginbegin to speak or say lip off, shoot one's mouth offspeak spontaneously and without restraint shoututter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) whisperspeak softly; in a low voice peepspeak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice speak upspeak louder; raise one's voice snap, snarlutter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone enthuseutter with enthusiasm speak in tonguesspeak unintelligibly in or as if in religious ecstasy swallowutter indistinctly verbalise, verbalizebe verbose whiffutter with a puff of air talk about, talk ofdiscuss or mention blubber, blubber oututter while crying drone, drone ontalk in a monotonous voice bumble, falter, stammer, stutterspeak haltingly rasputter in a grating voice blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculateutter impulsively inflect, modulate, tonevary the pitch of one's speech deliver, presentdeliver (a speech, oration, or idea) generalise, generalizespeak or write in generalities blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddlespeak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly chattermake noise as if chattering away jaw, rattle on, yack, yack away, yap awaytalk incessantly and tiresomely open uptalk freely and without inhibition snivel, whinetalk in a tearful manner murmurspeak softly or indistinctly maunder, mumble, mussitate, muttertalk indistinctly; usually in a low voice slurutter indistinctly barkspeak in an unfriendly tone bayutter in deep prolonged tones jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spouttalk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner hiss, sibilate, siss, sizzexpress or utter with a hiss cackletalk or utter in a cackling manner babbleutter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way chant, intone, toneutter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically gulputter or make a noise, as when swallowing too quickly singproduce tones with the voice numerateread out loud as words written numbers dictatesay out loud for the purpose of recording discuss, hash out, talk overspeak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion blasphemespeak of in an irreverent or impious manner coospeak softly or lovingly scream, yellutter or declare in a very loud voice holler, holler outshout out roar, thunderutter words loudly and forcefully rhapsodise, rhapsodizesay (something) with great enthusiasm speechifymake speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality babble, blather, blether, blither, smatterto talk foolishly susurrateissue soft noises bawl, bellowshout loudly and without restraint placesing a note with the correct pitch trollsing loudly and without inhibition croonsing softly cantillate, chant, intonate, intonerecite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm descant, warble, yodelsing by changing register; sing by yodeling quaver, trill, warblesing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below treblesing treble humsing with closed lips callread aloud to check for omissions or absentees belt, belt outsing loudly and forcefully descant onsing a descant on a main tune or melody vocalise, vocalizesing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel harmonise, harmonizesing or play in harmony descantsing in descant sing alongsing with a choir or an orchestra psalmsing or celebrate in psalms minstrelcelebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels solmizatesing using syllables like `do', `re' and `mi' to represent the tones of the scale chirp, tweedlesing in modulation choir, chorussing in a choir singdeliver by singing communicate, intercommunicate transmit thoughts or feelings 2v articulate silently; form words with the lips only She mouthed a swear word Hypo|Hyper lip-sync, lip-synch move the lips in synchronization (with recorded speech or song) affect, dissemble, feign, pretend, sham make believe with the intent to deceive 3n an impudent or insolent rejoinder Syn|Hyper back talk, backtalk, lip, sass, sassing comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) 4n a spokesperson (as a lawyer) Syn|Hyper mouthpiece interpreter, representative, spokesperson, voice an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose |
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