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plume
- IPA[pluːm]
英式
- a long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament；a part of an animal's body that resembles a feather
- spread out in a shape resembling a feather；decorate with or as if with feathers
verb: plume, 3rd person present: plumes, gerund or present participle: pluming, past tense: plumed, past participle: plumed
noun: plume, plural noun: plumes
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名詞
- 1. a long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament a hat with a jaunty ostrich plume
- ▪ a part of an animal's body that resembles a feather the antennae are divided into large feathery plumes
- 2. a long cloud of smoke or vapour resembling a feather as it spreads from its point of origin as he spoke, the word was accompanied by a white plume of breath
- ▪ a mass of material, typically a pollutant, spreading from a source a radioactive plume
- 3. a localized column of hotter magma rising by convection in the mantle, believed to cause volcanic activity in locations away from plate margins.
動詞
- 1. spread out in a shape resembling a feather smoke plumed from the chimneys
- ▪ decorate with or as if with feathers I plumed the hat with a couple of soft feathers from the tail of a hawk
- 2. archaic (of a bird) preen itself.
- ▪ feel a great sense of self-satisfaction about something she plumed herself on being cosmopolitan
- decorated with or as if with feathers: rain began to beat down on my plumed cap
Oxford American Dictionary
- decorated with or as if with feathers: rain began to beat down on my plumed cap
Oxford Dictionary
- a small, slender long-legged moth with narrow wings divided into feathery plumes. At rest the ...
Oxford American Dictionary
- a small, slender long-legged moth with narrow wings divided into feathery plumes. At rest the ...
Oxford Dictionary
- a feather or bunch of feathers from an ostrich.
Oxford Dictionary
- an assumed name used by a writer instead of their real name; a pen name: she is better known under her nom de plume of Daniel Stern
Oxford Dictionary
- an assumed name used by a writer instead of their real name; a pen name: she is better known under her nom de plume of Daniel Stern
Oxford American Dictionary
- a mythical creature depicted as part bird, part snake, in particular Quetzalcóatl, a god of the ...
Oxford Dictionary
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- IPA[plo͞om]
美式
- a long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person ... a hat with a jaunty ostrich plume
- spread out in a shape resembling a feather: smoke plumed from the chimneys
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