silk

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 sĭlk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider). uncountable
    — The thread made of silk was barely visible.
  2. A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers. countable,uncountable
    — It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
  3. Anything which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize, or the seed covering of bombaxes. countable,uncountable
    — Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
  4. The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel. countable,uncountable
  5. A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel. colloquial,countable,uncountable
  6. A pair of long silk sheets suspended in the air on which a performer performs tricks. countable,in-plural,uncountable
  7. The garments worn by a jockey displaying the colors of the horse's owner. countable,plural-normally,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To remove the silk from (corn). transitive
    — While we shucked and silked the corn, we talked, sang old nursery rhymes […]

词形变化

silks plural silks present,singular,third-person silking participle,present silked participle,past silked past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English silk, sylk, selk, selc, from Old English sioloc, seoloc, seolc (“silk”). The immediate source is uncertain; it probably reached English via the Baltic trade routes (cognates in Old Norse silki (> Danish silke, Swedish silke (“silk”)), Russian шёлк (šolk), obsolete Lithuanian zilkai̇̃), all ultimately from Late Latin sēricus, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós), ultimately from an Oriental language (represented now by e.g. Chinese 絲 /丝 (sī, “silk”)). Displaced Old English sīde (“silk”). Compare Seres. Doublet of seric and serge.
词源 2
From Middle English silk, sylk, selk, selc, from Old English sioloc, seoloc, seolc (“silk”). The immediate source is uncertain; it probably reached English via the Baltic trade routes (cognates in Old Norse silki (> Danish silke, Swedish silke (“silk”)), Russian шёлк (šolk), obsolete Lithuanian zilkai̇̃), all ultimately from Late Latin sēricus, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós), ultimately from an Oriental language (represented now by e.g. Chinese 絲 /丝 (sī, “silk”)). Displaced Old English sīde (“silk”). Compare Seres. Doublet of seric and serge.
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