swale

n. 沼泽地, 低洼地 vt. 放火烧 vi. 烧焦

发音

其它 /sweɪl/

词形变化

swales 复数 swaled swales 三单 swaling swaling 现在分词 swaled 过去式 swaled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A low tract of moist or marshy land.

  2. 2.

    A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.

  3. 3.

    A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.

  4. 4.

    Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.

  5. 5.

    A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.

  6. 1.

    A gutter in a candle.

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v.
  1. 1.

    Alternative form of sweal (“melt and waste away, or singe”).

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

trough

词源

Possibly from Middle English swale (“a shady place, a shadow”), perhaps of North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse svalr (“cool, fresh”), Icelandic svalir (“a balcony running along a wall”).

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