narrowing

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The process of becoming narrow. countable,uncountable
    — narrowings of the road
  2. The part of a stocking that is narrowed. countable,uncountable
    — It may be observed, as a general rule, that the length of a stocking, before the narrowings, should be, at the least, equal to twice the width of the top...
动词 v.
  1. Present participle and gerund of narrow. form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.
形容词 adj.
  1. shrinking
    — Such amity is no small thing. The narrowing world of Yiddish theater has been bedeviled with one “broyges” — a cherished term for a falling out — after another

词形变化

narrowings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
narrowing conversion renarrowing
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary