| 单词 | to film over |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto film over (also †up, etc.) 1. transitive. To cover with a thin layer, coating, or film. Also to film over (also †up, etc.). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > with a thin coating overfilm1593 film1604 skim1667 sub1921 skin1946 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 138 It will but skin and filme the vlcerous place. View more context for this quotation a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 251 Grosse infidelity that hath filmed up thine eyes. 1700 C. Davenant Disc. Grants & Resumptions Introd. 7 They do but film over a Sore, which breaks out afterwards with greater Rancour. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 150 And curse your spells, that film the eye of Faith. 1834 Eclectic Rev. June 515 That flattering unction which, when once laid to the soul, has no better effect than that of filming over the ulcerous place, and of suffering rank corruption to carry on. 1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xxix. 290 Would you linger by the stagnant pool because its surface is filmed with the iridescence of decay? 1910 S. E. White Rules of Game viii. 446 The inner surface..was shiny with pitch... This pitch had filmed over the old blaze, protecting it against the new wood. 1924 D. S. Muzzey United States Amer. II. vi. 443 They let streams of oil flow from the wells to film the rivers of western Pennsylvania. 1972 Scouting Oct. 23/1 Her copper surface filmed by weather to softest green. 2013 R. L. Naquin Pooka in my Pantry xiii. 182 I could barely see through the tears filming my eyes. to film over 2. intransitive. Esp. of the eyes: to become covered with a film; to become obscured as if covered with a film. Also to film over.In quot. 1877 (poetic): (of a distant object) to become hazy, to fade away. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > grow dim or lose brightness [verb (intransitive)] dima1300 fade13.. appal1393 duskc1430 pallc1450 cloud1555 pale1822 wane1832 film1844 dull1862 gauze1876 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > of vision: become disordered [verb (intransitive)] > become dim or poor mistOE duskc1230 daswen1382 dazec1386 dazzle1481 failc1540 film1844 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > become indistinct slubber1665 film1877 fuzz1930 defocus1955 1844 E. B. Barrett Poems II. 272 Straight her eyeballs filmed with horror. 1851 J. M. Neale Mediæval Hymns 34 Eyes are filming o'er in death. 1877 S. Lanier Florida Ghost in Poems 5 Past far-off palms that filmed to nought. 1912 Pearson's Mag. Sept. 105/1 I looked into the pale, frightened face—the dark eyes filming with tears. 1957 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 17 Jan. 19/3 Then the open water in the fishing holes began to film over rapidly with ice. 2003 Denver Post (Nexis) 2 Feb. (Travel section) 1 But as he talked his eyes filmed over. < as lemmas |
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