elbow

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɛlbəʊ̯/    美 /ˈɛlboʊ̯/|[ˈɛɫboʊ̯]|/ˈe̞lbəʉ̯/|[ˈe̞ɫbəʉ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
    — Up to the elbowes naked were there Armes.
  2. Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent. broadly
    — the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back
  3. A detective. US,dated
    — "An elbow, huh?" putting all the contempt he could in his voice; and somehow any synonym for detective seems able to hold a lot of contempt.
  4. Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
  5. A hit, strike, or blow with the elbow.
    — In the fair dinkum department that elbow prop Barrie McDermott threw into the face of Paul Sironen deserved to get him four months on the side-lines[.]
  6. Two nearby crossings of a rope.
动词 v.
  1. To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist. transitive
    — He elbowed his way through the crowd.
  2. To strike with the elbow.
    — Trumper elbowed me in the ribs and made a sign with his head. He seemed irritated now by our delay.
  3. To nudge, jostle or push.
    — Suddenly and with all her heart Kate longed to be home, back at the homestead, to participate in the rambunctious toss and jostle as breakup elbowed its way into the Park.
  4. To force (someone) to quit or lose their job so that someone else can be hired. informal
    — The president was elbowed out of power by members of her own party.

词形变化

elbows plural elbows present,singular,third-person elbowing participle,present elbowed participle,past elbowed past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English elbowe (“elbow”), from Old English elboga, elnboga (“elbow”), from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô (“elbow”), equivalent to ell + bow. Cognate with Scots elbuck (“elbow”), Saterland Frisian Älbooge (“elbow”), Dutch elleboog (“elbow”), Low German Ellebage (“elbow”), German Ellbogen, Ellenbogen (“elbow”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål albue (“elbow”), Norwegian Nynorsk olboge (“elbow”), Faroese albogi, Icelandic olbogi, olnbogi (“elbow”), Swedish armbåge (“elbow”).
词源 2
From Middle English elbowe (“elbow”), from Old English elboga, elnboga (“elbow”), from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô (“elbow”), equivalent to ell + bow. Cognate with Scots elbuck (“elbow”), Saterland Frisian Älbooge (“elbow”), Dutch elleboog (“elbow”), Low German Ellebage (“elbow”), German Ellbogen, Ellenbogen (“elbow”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål albue (“elbow”), Norwegian Nynorsk olboge (“elbow”), Faroese albogi, Icelandic olbogi, olnbogi (“elbow”), Swedish armbåge (“elbow”).
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