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单词 silklike
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
silk /sɪlk/USA pronunciation   n. [uncountable]
  1. Textilesthe fiber from the cocoon of the silkworm.
  2. Textilesthread or cloth made from this fiber.
  3. Textilesany fiber resembling silk, such as one produced by spiders.

adj. 
  1. of or relating to silk.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
silk  (silk),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Textilesthe soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
  2. Textilesthread made from this fiber.
  3. Textilescloth made from this fiber.
  4. Clothinga garment of this cloth.
  5. Clothinga gown of such material worn distinctively by a King's or Queen's Counsel at the English bar.
  6. silks, the blouse and peaked cap, considered together, worn by a jockey or sulky driver in a race.
  7. Informal Termsa parachute, esp. one opened aloft.
  8. any fiber or filamentous matter resembling silk, as a filament produced by certain spiders, the thread of a mollusk, or the like.
  9. the hairlike styles on an ear of corn.
  10. Informal Terms, British Terms[Brit. Informal.]
    • a King's or Queen's Counsel.
    • any barrister of high rank.
  11. Slang Terms hit the silk, to parachute from an aircraft;
    bail out.
  12. British Terms take silk, to become a Queen's or King's Counsel.

adj. 
  1. made of silk.
  2. resembling silk;
    silky.
  3. of or pertaining to silk.

v.i. 
  1. Botany(of corn) to be in the course of developing silk.
  • Gmc); compare seric-
  • Greek sērikón silk, noun, nominal use of neuter of sērikós silken, literally, Chinese, derivative of Sêres the Chinese (Russian shëlk, Old Prussian silkas (genitive) "silk'' appear to be
  • bef. 900; Middle English (noun, nominal); Old English sioloc, seol(o)c (cognate with Old Norse silki), by uncertain transmission
silklike′, adj. 

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