| 单词 | loosely-packed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasloosely-packed With participial adjective, as loosely-adherent, loosely-branched, loosely-fitting, loosely-knit, loosely-packed, loosely-woven, etc. Cf. loose-knit adj. at loose adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 3d. ΚΠ 1746 J. Warton Ode to Fancy 9 O Nymph, with loosely-flowing hair. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xiii. §109. 360 Not unfrequently a piece of trap [rock] may be found reduced..to a number of loosely-adherent coats, like those of an onion. 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 299 A loosely-branched tree. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 903 [Bacilli] occasionally in loosely packed bundles. 1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans i. 13 It [sc. group-sentiment] has spread beyond the family, the tribe, the loosely-knit federation of tribes to the yet more extensive aggregate, the nation. 1957 R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon xlvi. 153 It [sc. the Decree of the Central Committee] replaced the loosely-knit Union of Proletarian Writers by a single Union of Soviet Writers. < as lemmas |
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