单词	pillow
释义	pillow1 nounpillow2 verb pillowpil‧low1 /ˈpɪləʊ $ -loʊ/ ●●● S3 noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINpillow1 Origin: Old English pyle, from Latin pulvinus Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As a child, I used to keep them in a perforated matchbox under my pillow and listen to them at night. At length his other hand stole forward to play with the copper tresses that fell about the pillows. He would shove the pillows around some more. She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats. Slumping back on the pillow, she tried to ignore it. Some permanent hooches were air conditioned; they had maid service, with sheets and pillows. You can't get prints off a pillow. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► feather bed/pillow etc (=a bed etc that is filled with feathers) COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► white · Within minutes she was asleep, her heavy mane of hair spread over the white pillows.· The white pillows on the floor of the Seclusion Room were soaked from me peeing on them while I was out.· The pale face lay as if carved on the white pillow.· Sofas are plump with crisp white bed pillows.· Omite lies light and still on the white smooth pillow. NOUN► case · A thin stream of the cool air from outside rocks the blind and chills the pillow cases.· The top was from two pillow cases in her mending basket.· Bedding is not provided: sleeping bags, pillow cases and towels should be brought by guests.· If you sew, it pays to make your own pillows and pillow cases or shams.· Say the bedsheets and pillow cases as well.· All you need bring are sheets, pillow cases & towels. ► feather · It's far better to ruin a feather pillow than let yourself overflow in violent behaviour. ► fight · Is it like a pillow fight with rock-hard chestnuts? ► lavas · For many years there was much debate about how pillow lavas formed.· But all we see are pillow lavas, varying minutely with fewer or more buds, perhaps larger or smaller lobes.· It also used to be thought that pillow lavas could form only at great depths below the surface.· Pastures of fresh magma flows known as pillow lavas and the rubble of frequent earthquakes line the floor of this stone trough.· Above, where hot lava erupted from the crust to be chilled by cold sea-water are purple, bulbous pillow lavas. ► talk · Maybe later he'd get the information he was after during pillow talk.· It was spying, giving away secrets, pillow talk ... Luke knew how desperate she was. VERB► fall · At length his other hand stole forward to play with the copper tresses that fell about the pillows.· Miguel fell back against his pillows.· They were suddenly breathless, falling together on to the pillows.· Honor and I fall back into the pillows of our banquette.· His head fell against the pillow.· Then, abruptly, she was released, falling back against her pillows with a gasp.· He dropped the diary into the drawer, closed it and fell back on the pillows. ► hit · Betty was asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow. ► lie · Frank was lying back on the pillows with his eyes closed.· Inside, John lay cradling a pillow in the dark.· Dot saw the curly mass of Gloria's dark hair lying on the pillow of a similar but separate bed alongside.· Andy the Mouse lies on the other pillow.· He was interrupted by a rough cough and lay back against the pillows.· Ianthe lay back on her pillows. ► look · Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time.· She moved her head around on the pillow, looking for a position that was comfortable. ► place · The demonic sound ceased as abruptly as if a celestial hand had placed a pillow over that squalling electronic mouth.· Or try placing a small pillow or towel at the base of your spine. ► prop · About 3 hours after her return to the ward she was helped to sit up in bed, propped up on pillows.· She lies on her back, her body propped up with pillows, fluids dripping through tubes into her veins.· Amy was propped up on pillows, reading an old copy of the Lady.· Clarisa was sitting up in bed, propped against a pillow and holding the baby.· Sun shining, birds singing, me propped up on the pillows idly chatting.· He was propped up on three pillows, which felt strange to him.· Elizabeth was propped up on the pillows, with the baby lying in the cradle by the bed.· William was propped up against pillows as Carrie and Fred walked up to his bed. ► put · She bunched up the guilty hand that had slapped Becky and put it under her pillow.· They put me on pillows and brought me up for him to hold me before I died.· At night I used to put the pillow on my head and just hold it so as I couldn't hear.· She put the pillow down, and hugged Nina.· Whenever mum was ill I used to get a little card and write a poem and put it on her pillow. ► sink · She pushed his shoulder and he sank back against the pillows and closed his eyes.· He sank back into the pillows, hooked his thumbs in his belt.· He sank into his pillow, pulled at the bedcovers and shivered.· She sank back against the pillows and threw her arm across her eyes. ► turn · Jenna turned fretfully on her pillows. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► pillow fight Is it like a pillow fight with rock-hard chestnuts? ► pillow talk It was spying, giving away secrets, pillow talk ... Luke knew how desperate she was. Maybe later he'd get the information he was after during pillow talk. 1a cloth bag filled with soft material that you put your head on when you are sleeping:  I’ll be asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. → cushion1(1)2pillow fight a game in which children hit each other with pillows3pillow talk informal conversation between lovers in bed pillow1 nounpillow2 verb pillowpillow2 verb [transitive always + adverb/preposition] literary Verb Table VERB TABLE pillow Simple Form Present I, you, we, they pillow he, she, it pillows Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they pillowed Present perfect I, you, we, they have pillowed he, she, it has pillowed Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had pillowed Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will pillow Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have pillowed Continuous Form Present I am pillowing he, she, it is pillowing you, we, they are pillowing Past I, he, she, it was pillowing you, we, they were pillowing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been pillowing he, she, it has been pillowing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been pillowing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be pillowing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been pillowing Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS I found there a rebel, covered with clotted blood, pillowing his head on the dead body of a comrade. There was a dull pain in his left biceps - Tessa's head was pillowed on it. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► feather bed/pillow etc (=a bed etc that is filled with feathers) COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► head · I found there a rebel, covered with clotted blood, pillowing his head on the dead body of a comrade. to rest your head somewhere:  His head was pillowed on his arm.
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