wisp
n. 小把, 小物体, 纤细的东西 vt. 把...卷成小把
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1.
A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; a twisted handful of something; any slender, flexible structure or group.
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可数 不可数A wisp of hair escaped her barrette and whipped wildly in the wind.
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2.
A small, thin line of cloud, smoke, or steam.
可数 不可数A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.
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A whisk, or small broom.
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A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
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An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
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A flock of snipe.
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A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
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1.
To brush or dress, as with a wisp.
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To rumple.
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To produce a wisp, as of smoke.
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To emit in wisps.
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From Middle English wispe, wyspe, wips, wipse, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *wisp, *wips. Cognate with West Frisian wisp, Dutch wisp (“bundle of hay or straw”), Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp (“handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc.”). Akin also to Middle Dutch/Middle Low German wispel (“measure of grain”).
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