clew

n. 线索, 线团 vt. 绕成线球, 提示

发音

AU /kluː/

词形变化

clews 复数 clews clewed clewing clews 三单 clewing 现在分词 clewed 过去式 clewed 过去分词

别名

clue

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A roughly spherical mass or body.

    废旧

    If the whole troupe be diuided into many clewes, or round bunches, you need not then doubt but that there are many kings.

  2. 2.

    A ball of thread or yarn.

    古体
  3. 3.

    Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.

  4. 4.

    The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.

    航海 交通

    "Clew" is Saxon; "garnet" (from granato, a fruit) is Italian,—that is, the garnet- or pomegranate-shaped block fastened to the clew or corner of the courses, and hence the rope running through the block.

  5. 5.

    The sheets so attached to a sail.

    复数形式
  6. 6.

    The cords suspending a hammock.

    航海 交通 复数形式
  7. 7.

    Obsolete spelling of clue.

    废旧
v.
  1. 1.

    to roll into a ball

    及物
  2. 2.

    to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)

    不及物 及物 航海 交通

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

clue cue

上位词 7

evidence ball lump chunk clump clod glob

下位词 2

sign mark
动词

同义词 1

clue

上位词 4

wind roll wrap twine

相关短语

clew line clew lines clew up clew down full clew

词源

From Middle English clew, clewe, clowe, clue, clwe, clyw, clywe, from Old English clēowen, clīewen, clīowen, clīwen, clȳwe, clȳwen (“ball, sphere; skein”), from Proto-Germanic *kliuwiną, *klewô (“bale, ball, clump, mass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up, clump together; lump, swelling”). Akin to Old English clǣġ (“clay”). Doublet of knawel. Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian khnaul (“ball of yarn”), Dutch kluwe, kluwen (“ball thread or yarn, clew”), German Knäuel (“ballyarn; tangle”), Norwegian Nynorsk kljå (“a loom weight”); also Sanskrit ग्लौ (glau, “the moon; camphor; the earth”).

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