muzzle

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n. 动物之鼻口, 口套, 枪口 vt. 戴口套于, 使缄默

发音

其它 /ˈmʌzəl/

词形变化

muzzles 复数 muzzles muzzled muzzles 三单 muzzlest muzzleth muzzling muzzling 现在分词 muzzled 过去式 muzzled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.

    口吻

  2. 2.

    A person's mouth.

    贬义 俚语 引申义
  3. 3.

    A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.

    口络

  4. 4.

    The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.

    工程 政治 军事
  5. 5.

    A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.

    枪口

    苏格兰
  6. 6.

    An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

    历史 废旧
v.
  1. 1.

    To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.

    比喻 及物

    Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.

  3. 3.

    To veil, mask, muffle.

    废旧 及物
  4. 4.

    To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.

    废旧 及物
  5. 5.

    To bring the muzzle or mouth near.

    不及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

gag

上位词 4

face opening restraint constraint

下位词 2

point gunpoint

部分词 2

snout neb

整体词 3

head gun caput
动词

同义词 1

gag

反义词 1

unmuzzle

上位词 10

still fit tie silence outfit hush bind equip shut-up quieten

相关短语

muzzle blast muzzle brake muzzle energy muzzle compensator muzzle velocity 初速 muzzle blasts muzzle brakes muzzle energies muzzle velocities muzzle compensators muzzle sweep muzzle sweeps muzzle sweeping muzzle swept

词源

From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin mūsus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau. Displaced native Middle English kevel from Old English cæfl (“gag, bit, muzzle”), see English cavel.

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