peel
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
- Alternative form of peal (“a small or young salmon”).
- The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- A stake.
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A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
— Near-synonym: pizza paddle
- An equal or match; a draw.
- The action of peeling away from a formation.
- A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
- A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
- A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
- A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
- A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
- The blade of an oar.
动词 v.
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Misspelling of peal (“to sound loudly”).
— 1825 June 25, "My Village Bells", in The Circulator of Useful Knowledge, Literature, Amusement, and General Information number XXVI, available in, 1825, The Circulator of Useful Amusement, Literature, Science, and General Information, page 401, Oh ! still for me let merry bells peel out their holy chime;
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To remove the skin or outer covering of.
— I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.
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To plunder; to pillage, rob.
— But govern ill the nations under yoke, / Peeling their provinces.
- To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
- To play a peel shot.
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To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
— I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.
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To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
— I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.
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To remove one's clothing.
— The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.
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To move, separate (off or away).
— The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.
词形变化
词汇关系
衍生词
keep one's eyeballs peeled
keep one's eyes peeled
overpeel
peelability
peelable
peel-and-seal
peel and stick
peel away
peel back the onion
peeler
peelie
peeling skin syndrome
peel me a grape
peel off
peelout
peel out
peel rubber
peel the onion
peely
repeel
there's more than one way to peel an orange
unpeel
banana peel
chemical peel
onion peel
orange peel
orange-peel fungus
peelless
peel strength
peel tab
pizza peel
salmon peel
peel-house
peelhouse
peel-tower
词源
词源 1
From Middle English pelen, from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier; both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.
词源 2
From Middle English peel, pele, from Anglo-Norman pel (compare modern French pieu), from Latin pālus (“stake”). Doublet of pole and pale.
词源 3
From Middle English pele, from Old French pele (modern French pelle), from Latin pāla, from the base of plangō (“fix, plant”). Doublet of pala.
词源 4
Unknown.
词源 5
Named from Walter H. Peel, a noted 19th-century croquet player.
词源 6
From Old French piller (“pillage”).
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