brow

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located.
  2. The eyebrow.
    — ’Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, / Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream / That can entame my spirits to your worship.
  3. The forehead.
    — Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war, And thus hath so bestirr’d thee in thy sleep, That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow Like bubbles in a late-disturb’d stream,[…]
  4. Aspect; appearance; facial expression. figuratively
    — Take it away; I'm frightened! / But she, with placid brow, / Cries: "This is our Kitty-witty! / Why don't you love her now?"
  5. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
    — the brow of a precipice
  6. The first tine of an antler's beam.
  7. A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
  8. The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
  9. The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
动词 v.
  1. To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
    — Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts / That brow this bottom glade.
    Comus

词形变化

brows plural brows present,singular,third-person browing participle,present browed participle,past browed past

词汇关系

近义词
forehead
衍生词
beetle brow beetle-browed Berry Brow bibrow brow-antlered deer browband brow-beat browbeat browbeaten browbone browbound browful brow job browless brow-level browlift browline browman browplasty brow ridge browspot Dobb Brow eye brow eyebrow highbrow low-brow lowbrow medium-brow midbrow middlebrow monobrow no-brow overbrow Scouse brow sweat of one's brow sweat of the brow underbrow unibrow Weatherby brow

词源

词源 1
From Middle English browe, from Old English brū, from Proto-West Germanic *brāwu, from Proto-Germanic *brūwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“brow”).
Cognate with Scots broo (“brow”), Dutch brauw (“brow”), German Braue (“eyebrow”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish bryn (“brow”), Faroese, Icelandic brún (“brow”). See also Middle Irish brúad, Tocharian B pärwāne (“eyebrows”), Lithuanian bruvi̇̀s, Serbo-Croatian obrva (“eyebrow”), Russian бровь (brovʹ, “brow”), Ancient Greek ὀφρύς (ophrús, “eyebrow”), Sanskrit भ्रू (bhrū, “eyebrow”)), Persian ابرو (abru, “eyebrow”), Khowar بروُ (bruú, “eyebrow”).
词源 2
From Middle English browe, from Old English brū, from Proto-West Germanic *brāwu, from Proto-Germanic *brūwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“brow”).
Cognate with Scots broo (“brow”), Dutch brauw (“brow”), German Braue (“eyebrow”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish bryn (“brow”), Faroese, Icelandic brún (“brow”). See also Middle Irish brúad, Tocharian B pärwāne (“eyebrows”), Lithuanian bruvi̇̀s, Serbo-Croatian obrva (“eyebrow”), Russian бровь (brovʹ, “brow”), Ancient Greek ὀφρύς (ophrús, “eyebrow”), Sanskrit भ्रू (bhrū, “eyebrow”)), Persian ابرو (abru, “eyebrow”), Khowar بروُ (bruú, “eyebrow”).
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