单词 | hairweaving |
释义 | hairweaving in British English (ˈhɛəˌwiːvɪŋ) noun the interweaving of false hair with the hair on a balding person's head hairweaving in American English (ˈhɛərˌwivɪŋ) noun the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's remaining hair, to cover a bald area Also: hair-weaving Derived forms hairweaver noun Word origin [1965–70; hair + weave + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1965–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Finlandization, overdub, red-eye, stun gun, wraparound-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”Examples of 'hairweaving' in a sentence |
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