英语词汇“coffin”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINcoffin

Origin:

1300-1400 Old French cophin, from Latin cophinus ‘basket’, from Greek kophinos

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

A large estate car or van will be needed to transport the coffin, and four to six people to carry it.
And the heart-rending tragedy of the tiny coffins of a family of victims?
By the 1770s the winding-sheet had almost disappeared, to be replaced by coffin sheets.
His aging friends felt as if they were looking into their own open coffins.
His imperious father tells Alex he wishes it were him in the coffin.
Of course, I thought, it's the ashes of the coffin as well, so it would be quite a weight.
On the way past the coffin Margaret bowed and kissed the lid.
Sons of louts grappled with the coffin in vain; they could neither cram it in nor twist it out.

WORD SETS► Death

asphyxia, nounautopsy, nounbarrow, nounbequeath, verbbereaved, adjectivebereavement, nounbier, nounbody bag, nounbody count, nounburial, nounbury, verbcasket, nouncatacomb, nouncatafalque, nouncemetery, nouncenotaph, nouncharnel house, nounchurchyard, nouncoffin, nouncommittal, nouncondolence, nouncoroner, nouncorpse, nouncortege, nouncot death, nouncremate, verbcrematorium, nouncrib death, nouncrucifixion, nouncrucify, verbcrypt, noundeath mask, noundemise, noundeparted, adjectiveD.O.A., adjectivedrown, verbembalm, verbend, nounepitaph, nouneulogy, nounexhume, verbexpire, verbfatality, nounfuneral, nounfunerary, adjectivefunereal, adjectivegrave, noungravedigger, noungravestone, noungraveyard, nounheadstone, nounhearse, nounhospice, nouninter, verbinterment, nounmausoleum, nounmorgue, nounmortality, nounmortician, nounmortuary, nounmortuary, adjectivemourner, nounmourning, nounmummify, verbmummy, nounnecrophilia, nounobsequies, nounpall, nounpallbearer, nounpassing, nounperish, verbplot, nounprobate, nounprobate, verbpyre, nounquietus, nounremains, nounrest, verbrigor mortis, nounRIP, rise, verbsarcophagus, nounsepulchre, nounshroud, nounthrenody, nountoll, nountomb, nountombstone, nountumulus, nounundertaker, nounundertaking, nounurn, nounvault, nounwake, nounwar memorial, nounwill, nounwinding sheet, nounwreath, noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► wooden

· Forty-two extended inhumations, several with wooden coffins, were examined, 14 in the northern and 28 in the southern plot.· The deceased were placed in wooden coffins or wrapped in felt.· But, through a tawdry heap of bushes, he watched the procession and the bare wooden coffin lifted by altar boys.· Grave gifts were typically pots, and traces of wooden coffins have been discovered.

NOUN► lead

· Not all lead coffins destined for vaults were provided with outer wooden cases.· Perhaps, like the lead coffin of Osiris, which suffered a similar fate, it is the real secret of alchemy.

► lid

· Helen remembered the posy of flowers from the garden that she had tried to fix to the coffin lid with sellotape.· When my father threw in the first handful of dirt, I heard the pebbles dance on the coffin lid.· As the drumming built to a crescendo, the coffin lid snapped open, scattering coins into the dust.· Some of them dabbed their eyes with handkerchiefs, others stared very seriously at the coffin lid.· The sound was as final as the closing of a coffin lid.

VERB► bury

· When the corpse arrived at Grinton churchyard it was buried without a coffin in a linen shroud.· Although it had been buried without a coffin, it was found perfectly preserved.

► carry

· Following him were four men carrying a coffin.· I carried the coffin of Cesar Chavez.· I asked McCluskey and four of his men to join me in carrying the coffin out.· The youngest, Benny, although only thirteen, walked with his brothers, carrying the coffin.· The pair turned on him after he spotted them carrying the coffin through High Wycombe, Bucks, at midnight.· The undertaker then takes over, makes up our faces and carries the coffin to the crematorium.· Flash back colleagues carry Wayne Edwards' coffin at his funeral in January.

► lay

· We laid him in his coffin on the spare-room bed.· For many years she lay in the coffin, but strangely remained as lovely as if she were still alive.· The body is laid out in a coffin resting on a bed of bran or sawdust.· The six-foot metal cylinders that breathed for patients lay like coffins on stands that raised them to table height.· On the raised dais in front of him lay Sylvie's coffin.· To me Hugh lay in his coffin.· Beria therefore had a vital interest in seeing Stalin laid into a coffin, and there were rumours that he murdered him.· She took me into the first-floor front room, where my father had already been laid out in his coffin.

► lie

· On the raised dais in front of him lay Sylvie's coffin.· For many years she lay in the coffin, but strangely remained as lovely as if she were still alive.· To me Hugh lay in his coffin.· Their withered skeletal bodies lie in half-opened coffins beneath sheets of glass.· We bury our noblemen there, except that they have to lie at present without coffins.· The six-foot metal cylinders that breathed for patients lay like coffins on stands that raised them to table height.· Seeing him lying in a coffin with a stake through his heart might go some way to convince me.· On the morning of the funeral, he gave her a last farewell kiss as she lay in her coffin.

► lower

· I wept when they lowered her coffin into the ground.· I watched the men lower the coffin into the ground and watched them draw their earth-stained ropes up again.

► open

· Some parents discover the truth by opening the sealed coffins delivered to them for burial.· The grave was opened and her coffin was placed upon that of her husband.

► place

· They saw little point in diagnosis after the patient had been placed in the coffin.· The body was reclothed in a fresh habit and was placed in a new coffin.· The deceased were placed in wooden coffins or wrapped in felt.

► put

· In this way the body was put into the coffin wearing just a shift and bonnet.· South Carolina put him in his coffin.· They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker.· In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse, but he did not know that.

► seal

· Some parents discover the truth by opening the sealed coffins delivered to them for burial.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► nail in somebody’s/something’s coffin

A final nail in the coffin had been hammered in by Wrede.
Another loss would be another nail in Branfoots managerial coffin.
For me this was the final nail in the coffin of a terminally dull product.
In the end, it was also the issue which secured a vital nail in the coffin of Britain's nuclear dream.
Industry observers fear that this would be another nail in the coffin of the independent record industry.
It also is one more nail in the coffin of formal decor.
It is another nail in the coffin of deterrence even if the first generation of cruise will be slow for such a role.
Was not the film's very name, Last Resort, another nail in Margate's coffin?

单词	coffin
释义	coffincof‧fin /ˈkɒfɪn $ ˈkɒː-, ˈkɑː-/ ●●○ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINcoffin Origin: 1300-1400 Old French cophin, from Latin cophinus ‘basket’, from Greek kophinos Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A large estate car or van will be needed to transport the coffin, and four to six people to carry it. And the heart-rending tragedy of the tiny coffins of a family of victims? By the 1770s the winding-sheet had almost disappeared, to be replaced by coffin sheets. His aging friends felt as if they were looking into their own open coffins. His imperious father tells Alex he wishes it were him in the coffin. Of course, I thought, it's the ashes of the coffin as well, so it would be quite a weight. On the way past the coffin Margaret bowed and kissed the lid. Sons of louts grappled with the coffin in vain; they could neither cram it in nor twist it out. word sets WORD SETS► Death asphyxia, nounautopsy, nounbarrow, nounbequeath, verbbereaved, adjectivebereavement, nounbier, nounbody bag, nounbody count, nounburial, nounbury, verbcasket, nouncatacomb, nouncatafalque, nouncemetery, nouncenotaph, nouncharnel house, nounchurchyard, nouncoffin, nouncommittal, nouncondolence, nouncoroner, nouncorpse, nouncortege, nouncot death, nouncremate, verbcrematorium, nouncrib death, nouncrucifixion, nouncrucify, verbcrypt, noundeath mask, noundemise, noundeparted, adjectiveD.O.A., adjectivedrown, verbembalm, verbend, nounepitaph, nouneulogy, nounexhume, verbexpire, verbfatality, nounfuneral, nounfunerary, adjectivefunereal, adjectivegrave, noungravedigger, noungravestone, noungraveyard, nounheadstone, nounhearse, nounhospice, nouninter, verbinterment, nounmausoleum, nounmorgue, nounmortality, nounmortician, nounmortuary, nounmortuary, adjectivemourner, nounmourning, nounmummify, verbmummy, nounnecrophilia, nounobsequies, nounpall, nounpallbearer, nounpassing, nounperish, verbplot, nounprobate, nounprobate, verbpyre, nounquietus, nounremains, nounrest, verbrigor mortis, nounRIP, rise, verbsarcophagus, nounsepulchre, nounshroud, nounthrenody, nountoll, nountomb, nountombstone, nountumulus, nounundertaker, nounundertaking, nounurn, nounvault, nounwake, nounwar memorial, nounwill, nounwinding sheet, nounwreath, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► wooden · Forty-two extended inhumations, several with wooden coffins, were examined, 14 in the northern and 28 in the southern plot.· The deceased were placed in wooden coffins or wrapped in felt.· But, through a tawdry heap of bushes, he watched the procession and the bare wooden coffin lifted by altar boys.· Grave gifts were typically pots, and traces of wooden coffins have been discovered. NOUN► lead · Not all lead coffins destined for vaults were provided with outer wooden cases.· Perhaps, like the lead coffin of Osiris, which suffered a similar fate, it is the real secret of alchemy. ► lid · Helen remembered the posy of flowers from the garden that she had tried to fix to the coffin lid with sellotape.· When my father threw in the first handful of dirt, I heard the pebbles dance on the coffin lid.· As the drumming built to a crescendo, the coffin lid snapped open, scattering coins into the dust.· Some of them dabbed their eyes with handkerchiefs, others stared very seriously at the coffin lid.· The sound was as final as the closing of a coffin lid. VERB► bury · When the corpse arrived at Grinton churchyard it was buried without a coffin in a linen shroud.· Although it had been buried without a coffin, it was found perfectly preserved. ► carry · Following him were four men carrying a coffin.· I carried the coffin of Cesar Chavez.· I asked McCluskey and four of his men to join me in carrying the coffin out.· The youngest, Benny, although only thirteen, walked with his brothers, carrying the coffin.· The pair turned on him after he spotted them carrying the coffin through High Wycombe, Bucks, at midnight.· The undertaker then takes over, makes up our faces and carries the coffin to the crematorium.· Flash back colleagues carry Wayne Edwards' coffin at his funeral in January. ► lay · We laid him in his coffin on the spare-room bed.· For many years she lay in the coffin, but strangely remained as lovely as if she were still alive.· The body is laid out in a coffin resting on a bed of bran or sawdust.· The six-foot metal cylinders that breathed for patients lay like coffins on stands that raised them to table height.· On the raised dais in front of him lay Sylvie's coffin.· To me Hugh lay in his coffin.· Beria therefore had a vital interest in seeing Stalin laid into a coffin, and there were rumours that he murdered him.· She took me into the first-floor front room, where my father had already been laid out in his coffin. ► lie · On the raised dais in front of him lay Sylvie's coffin.· For many years she lay in the coffin, but strangely remained as lovely as if she were still alive.· To me Hugh lay in his coffin.· Their withered skeletal bodies lie in half-opened coffins beneath sheets of glass.· We bury our noblemen there, except that they have to lie at present without coffins.· The six-foot metal cylinders that breathed for patients lay like coffins on stands that raised them to table height.· Seeing him lying in a coffin with a stake through his heart might go some way to convince me.· On the morning of the funeral, he gave her a last farewell kiss as she lay in her coffin. ► lower · I wept when they lowered her coffin into the ground.· I watched the men lower the coffin into the ground and watched them draw their earth-stained ropes up again. ► open · Some parents discover the truth by opening the sealed coffins delivered to them for burial.· The grave was opened and her coffin was placed upon that of her husband. ► place · They saw little point in diagnosis after the patient had been placed in the coffin.· The body was reclothed in a fresh habit and was placed in a new coffin.· The deceased were placed in wooden coffins or wrapped in felt. ► put · In this way the body was put into the coffin wearing just a shift and bonnet.· South Carolina put him in his coffin.· They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker.· In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse, but he did not know that. ► seal · Some parents discover the truth by opening the sealed coffins delivered to them for burial. Phrases PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► nail in somebody’s/something’s coffin A final nail in the coffin had been hammered in by Wrede. Another loss would be another nail in Branfoots managerial coffin. For me this was the final nail in the coffin of a terminally dull product. In the end, it was also the issue which secured a vital nail in the coffin of Britain's nuclear dream. Industry observers fear that this would be another nail in the coffin of the independent record industry. It also is one more nail in the coffin of formal decor. It is another nail in the coffin of deterrence even if the first generation of cruise will be slow for such a role. Was not the film's very name, Last Resort, another nail in Margate's coffin? a long box in which a dead person is buried or burnt SYN casket American English → a nail in somebody’s/something’s coffin at nail1(3)
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