cowl

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n. 蒙头斗篷, 通风帽 [化] 风扇罩

发音

US /kaʊl/
其它
UK /kaʊl/
IE /kəʉl/

词形变化

cowls 复数 cowled cowling cowls 三单 cowls cowling 现在分词 cowled 过去式 cowled 过去分词 more cowl 比较级 most cowl 最高级

教材释义与例句

动词

给…穿蒙头斗篷;给…装上风帽状物

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.

  2. 2.

    A mask that covers the majority of the head.

  3. 3.

    A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.

  4. 4.

    A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.

  5. 5.

    A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.

    航海 交通
  6. 6.

    A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.

    航海 交通
  7. 7.

    A monk.

  8. 1.

    A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.

    废旧
  9. 1.

    A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).

    1982, André Brink, A Chain of Voices, New York: William Morrow, Part 3, “Campher,” p. 331, […] I’d been born with a cowl, which from my earliest age prompted a wide variety of predictions about my future, alternately dire and enthusiastic.

v.
  1. 1.

    To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).

  2. 2.

    To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.

  3. 3.

    To make a monk of (a person).

    及物
  4. 4.

    To scrape together

adj.
  1. 1.

    cold

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词源

From Middle English coule, from Old English cūle, from earlier cugele (“hood, cowl”), from Ecclesiastical Latin cuculla (“monk's cowl”), from Latin cucullus (“hood”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cagoule.

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