fringe

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /fɹɪnd͡ʒ/    美 /fɹɪnd͡ʒ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A decorative border.
    — the fringe of a picture
  2. A decorative border.; A border or edging. broadly
    — He walked up the heath’s western edge, beside a fringe of scrub where hogweed grew in tangles and brambles rose taller than him.
  3. A marginal or peripheral part. also,figuratively
    — the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
  4. A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
    — About an hour later, the two were sitting at a comparatively isolated table in a restaurant called Sickler’s, downtown, a highly favored place among, chiefly, the intellectual fringe of students at the college—the same students, more or less, who, had they been Yale or Harvard men, might rather too casually have steered their dates away from Mory’s or Cronin’s.
  5. A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.; Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views. also,attributive
    — a fringe group of the party
  6. The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
    — He lives on the fringe of London.
  7. The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.; Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc. Australia
    — All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves.
  8. Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across. UK
    — Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
  9. A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
    — interference fringe
  10. Non-mainstream theatre.
    — The Fringe
  11. The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
  12. The area around the green.
  13. A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
动词 v.
  1. To decorate with fringe. transitive
    — [Y]onder cloud / That rises upward always higher, / ⁠And onward drags a labouring breast, / ⁠And topples round the dreary west, / A looming bastion fringed with fire.
  2. To serve as a fringe; to border. transitive
    — Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.
形容词 adj.
  1. Outside the mainstream.
    — So was the cellist Charlotte Moorman, muse to Nam June Paik and proactivist champion of all things fringe.

词形变化

fringes plural more fringe comparative fringer comparative most fringe superlative fringest superlative fringes present,singular,third-person fringing participle,present fringed participle,past fringed past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.
词源 2
From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.
词源 3
From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.
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