anvil英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.

— My heart is as an anvil unto sorrow, Which beats upon it like the Cyclops’ hammers […]
The incus bone in the middle ear.
A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.
The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.
A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.

动词 v.

To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil. figuratively,often,transitive

— I Have anvil’d out this Iron Age, Which I commit, not to your patronage, But skill and Art […]

词形变化

anvils plural anvils present,singular,third-person anviling US,participle,present anvilling UK,participle,present anviled US,participle,past anviled US,past anvilled UK,participle,past anvilled UK,past

词汇关系

近义词

stithy

衍生词

anvil cloud anvilicious anvillike anvilsmith between the hammer and the anvil diamond anvil cell hammer and anvil on the anvil

词源

词源 1

From Middle English anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, from late Old English anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti (“anvil”), from Proto-West Germanic *anafalt (compare Middle Dutch anvilte, Low German Anfilts, Anefilt, Old High German anafalz), compound of *ana (“on”) + *falt (“beaten”) (compare German falzen (“to groove, fold, welt”), Swedish dialectal filta (“to beat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-t- (“shaken, beaten”) (compare Middle Irish lethar (“leather”), Latin pellō (“to beat, strike”), Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to toss, brandish”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to stir, move”). More at felon.

词源 2

From Middle English anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, from late Old English anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti (“anvil”), from Proto-West Germanic *anafalt (compare Middle Dutch anvilte, Low German Anfilts, Anefilt, Old High German anafalz), compound of *ana (“on”) + *falt (“beaten”) (compare German falzen (“to groove, fold, welt”), Swedish dialectal filta (“to beat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-t- (“shaken, beaten”) (compare Middle Irish lethar (“leather”), Latin pellō (“to beat, strike”), Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to toss, brandish”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to stir, move”). More at felon.