nether

FREQ #34809

a. 下面的, 下方的, 地下的 [化] 天然碱

发音

UK /nɛð.ə/
CA /nɛð.ɚ/
US /nɛð.ɚ/
AU /neð.ə/

词形变化

nethers 复数 nethered nethering nethers 三单 nethering 现在分词 nethered 过去式 nethered 过去分词 nethermore 比较级 nethermost 最高级 more nether 比较级 most nether 最高级 the nether

别名

nither neather

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.

    苏格兰 英国 方言
  2. 2.

    A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

    商务 采矿
v.
  1. 1.

    To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.

    苏格兰 英国 方言 及物
  2. 2.

    To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.

    苏格兰 英国 方言 及物
  3. 3.

    To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.

    苏格兰 英国 方言 及物
  4. 4.

    To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.

    苏格兰 英国 方言 及物
  5. 5.

    To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.

    苏格兰 英国 方言 及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Lower; under.

    The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.

  2. 2.

    Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.

    the nether regions

adv.
  1. 1.

    Down; downward.

  2. 2.

    Low; low down.

name
  1. 1.

    Alternative letter-case form of the Nether.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 3

under chthonian chthonic

近义相关 3

low bottom infernal

相关短语

nether world nether worlds nether region [网络] 虚空地区 nether regions nether thought nether thoughts nether hair nether cheek nether cheeks nether hairs Nether Broughton Nether Padley Nether Wyresdale

词源

Alteration of earlier nither, from Middle English nitheren, from Old English niþerian (“to depress, abase, bring low, humiliate, oppress, accuse, condemn”), from niþer (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”). See above.

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