搜尋結果
mantle
- IPA[ˈmantl]
英式
- a loose sleeveless cloak or shawl, worn especially by women;a covering of a specified sort
- cloak or envelop;(of blood) suffuse (the face)
verb: mantle, 3rd person present: mantles, gerund or present participle: mantling, past tense: mantled, past participle: mantled
noun: mantle, plural noun: mantles
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a loose sleeveless cloak or shawl, worn especially by women she was wrapped tightly in her mantle 同義詞
- ▪ a covering of a specified sort the houses were covered with a thick mantle of snow 同義詞
- ▪ a bird's back, scapulars, and wing coverts, especially when of a distinctive colour many gulls are all white except for dark grey mantle and wings
- ▪ (in molluscs, cirripedes, and brachiopods) a fold of skin enclosing the viscera and secreting the shell.
- 2. an important role or responsibility that passes from one person to another the second son has now assumed his father's mantle 同義詞
- 3. a fragile mesh cover fixed round a gas jet, kerosene wick, etc., to give an incandescent light when heated.
- 4. the region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core, believed to consist of hot, dense silicate rocks (mainly peridotite) magmas erupted at mid-ocean ridges are derived from the upper mantle mantle rock
- ▪ the part of another planetary body corresponding to the earth's mantle the lunar mantle
動詞
- 1. literary cloak or envelop heavy mists mantled the forested slopes
- ▪ archaic (of blood) suffuse (the face) a warm pink mounted to the girl's cheeks and mantled her brow
- ▪ archaic (of the face) glow with a blush her rich face mantling with emotion
- ▪ archaic (of a liquid) become covered with a head or froth the poison mantled in the bowl
- 2. (of a bird of prey on the ground or on a perch) spread the wings and tail so as to cover captured prey the female Goshawk is feeding while mantling with spread wings over her prey