| 单词 | mural |
| 释义 | mural /myoor"euhl/, n. 1. a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling. 2. a greatly enlarged photograph attached directly to a wall. 3. a wallpaper pattern representing a landscape or the like, often with very widely spaced repeats so as to produce the effect of a mural painting on a wall of average size; a trompe l'oeil. adj. 4. of, pertaining to, or resembling a wall. 5. executed on or affixed to a wall: mural inscriptions. 6. pertaining to any of several astronomical instruments that were affixed to a wall aligned on the plane of a meridian, and were formerly used to measure the altitude of celestial bodies: a mural quadrant; a mural circle. [1400-50; late ME < L muralis, equiv. to mur(us) wall + -alis -AL1] |
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