单词 | wall-sided |
释义 | > as lemmaswall-sided wall-sided adj. having perpendicular sides like a wall. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > vertical position > [adjective] > having vertical sides wall-reared1627 wale-reared1644 wall-sided1711 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 165 Wall-sided. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Wall-sided, the figure of a ship's side, when, instead of being incurvated..it is nearly perpendicular to the surface of the water, like a wall. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 180 A deep wall-sided valley. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 334 She was a good, substantial ship,..wall-sided and kettle-bottomed. 1866 T. H. Huxley in S. Laing Pre-hist. Remains Caithness 88 The transverse contour of the skull inclines to be pentagonal and wall-sided. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。