anvil

FREQ #26464

n. 铁砧 [医] 砧骨; 铁砧

发音

US /ˈæn.vəl/
其它
US /ˈæn.vɪl/
UK /ˈæn.vɪl/

词形变化

anvils 复数 anvils anviled anviling anvilled anvilling anvils 三单 anviling 现在分词 anvilling 现在分词 anviled 过去式 anviled 过去分词 anvilled 过去式 anvilled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.

    铁砧

    1794, William Blake, “The Tyger,” lines 15-16, What the anvil? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

  2. 2.

    The incus bone in the middle ear.

    砧骨

    医学
  3. 3.

    A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.

  4. 4.

    The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.

  5. 5.

    A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.

    气象
v.
  1. 1.

    To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.

    比喻 及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

incus

上位词 1

block

整体词 5

forge smithy middle ear tympanic cavity tympanum

相关短语

anvil cloud anvil clouds diamond anvil cell diamond anvil cells on the anvil 在制作中,在讨论中,在编辑中 between the hammer and the anvil adv. 腹背受敌 hammer and anvil

词源

From Middle English anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, from late Old English anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti (“anvil”), from Proto-West Germanic *anafalt (compare Middle Dutch anvilte, Low German Anfilts, Anefilt, Old High German anafalz), compound of *ana (“on”) + *falt (“beaten”) (compare German falzen (“to groove, fold, welt”), Swedish dialectal filta (“to beat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-t- (“shaken, beaten”) (compare Middle Irish lethar (“leather”), Latin pellō (“to beat, strike”), Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to toss, brandish”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to stir, move”). More at felon.

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