skull

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 skŭl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.
    — All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head.
  2. Obsolete form of school (“a multitude”). alt-of,obsolete
    — A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.
  3. These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head.
    — Thine are these orbs of light and shade; ⁠Thou madest Life in man and brute; ⁠Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
  4. The mind or brain. figuratively
    — My thoughts are flying around in my skull like fireflies in a jar, but all of a sudden I'm unbearably tired and can't stay awake.
  5. A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.
  6. The crown of the headpiece in armour.
  7. A shallow bow-handled basket. Scotland
  8. The head or master of a college. UK,obsolete,slang
    — Graduates […] will never forget that majestic stature, that massive brow, that commanding look, as its possessor paced the ante-chapel of his college, or took his seat of presidence among the skulls of Golgotha.
动词 v.
  1. To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.
  2. To strike the top of (the ball). transitive
    — Monte swung so hard at the next ball that he skulled it straight right, into the pond: 8 in, 9 out.
  3. To drink everything that remains in a glass by upending it.
    — She nearly skulled the next drink and, despite feeling a little woozy, she felt a lot better.

词形变化

skulls plural scull alternative,obsolete skulls present,singular,third-person skulling participle,present skulled participle,past skulled past scull alternative,obsolete skulls plural

词汇关系

近义词
brainpan harnpan brain bucket brainbox cranium skull
上位词
bone head
衍生词
Beauchene skull cloverleaf skull crackskull crumbling skull rule deathskull exploded skull fuckskull get it through one's skull get through one's thick skull hot-skull numbskull numskull out of one's skull popskull pseudo-skull rattleskull sapskull skull and bones skull and crossbones skull base disease skullbone skullcap skull-collecting ant skullcup skull drum skullet skull-fuck skullfucker skullful skullish skull-like skulllike skull-measurer skull-pan skullscape skull session skull-thatcher Skull Valley skully sugar skull thickskull thin skull rule whip some skull on
相关词
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并列词
cranium
部分词
braincase mandible maxilla zygomatic bone lacrimal bone nasal bone ethmoid bone sphenoid bone frontal bone temporal bone parietal bone occipital bone

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sculle, scolle (also schulle, scholle), probably from a dialectal form of Old Norse skalli (“bald head, skull”), itself probably related to Old English sċealu (“husk”), to Proto-Norse *ᛋᚲᚨᛚᛟ (*skalo), from Proto-Germanic *skallô; compare Finnish skallo. Compare Scots scull, Danish skal (“skull”) and skalle (“bald head, skull”), Norwegian skalle, Swedish skalle and especially dialectal Swedish skulle.
Related to Old Norse skoltr (“brow”), skolptr (“muzzle, snout”), akin to Icelandic skoltur (“jaw”), dialectal Swedish skult, skulle (“dome, crown of the head, skull”), Norwegian Nynorsk skult, skolt (“cranium, head (of a hammer); crag; hub”), Middle Dutch scolle, scholle, Middle Low German scholle, schulle (“clod, sod”), and Scots skult, skolt. Compare also Old High German sciula, skiula (“skull”). Possibly related to Latin celsus (“lofty, high, tall”), collis (“hill”).
Also related to Old Norse skǫllóttr, Icelandic sköllóttur, Old Swedish skallotter, Swedish skallig, Danish skaldet, Norwegian skallet (“bald”).
词源 2
See school (“a multitude”).
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