frill

frill

F0329200 (frĭl)n.1. A ruffled, gathered, or pleated border or projection, such as a fabric edge used to trim clothing.2. A projection as of hair, feathers, bone, or cartilage, about the neck of an animal.3. A wrinkling of the edge of a photographic film.4. Informal Something that is desirable but not a necessity; a luxury. See Synonyms at luxury.v. frilled, frill·ing, frills v.tr.1. To make into a ruffle or frill.2. To add a ruffle or frill to.v.intr. To become wrinkled along the edge.

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fril′li·ness n.frill′y adj.

frill

(frɪl) n1. (Clothing & Fashion) a gathered, ruched, or pleated strip of cloth sewn on at one edge only, as on garments, as ornament, or to give extra body2. (Zoology) a ruff of hair or feathers around the neck of a dog or bird or a fold of skin around the neck of a reptile or amphibian3. (Breeds) (often capital) a variety of domestic fancy pigeon having a ruff of curled feathers on the chest and crop. Full name: oriental frill 4. (Photography) photog a wrinkling or loosening of the emulsion at the edges of a negative or print5. (often plural) informal a superfluous or pretentious thing or manner; affectation: he made a plain speech with no frills. vb6. (tr) to adorn or fit with a frill or frills7. to form into a frill or frills8. (Photography) (intr) photog (of an emulsion) to develop a frill[C14: perhaps of Flemish origin] ˈfrilliness n ˈfrilly adj

frill

(frɪl)

n. 1. a trimming, as a strip of cloth or lace, gathered at one edge and left loose at the other; ruffle. 2. something resembling such a trimming, as the fringe of hair on the chest of some dogs. 3. affectation of manner, style, etc. 4. something superfluous; luxury. v.t. 5. to trim or ornament with a frill or frills. 6. to form into a frill. [1585–95] frill′er, n. frill′i•ness, n. frill′y, adj. frill•i•er, frill•i•est.

frill

Past participle: frilled
Gerund: frilling

Imperative
frill
frill

Present
I frill
you frill
he/she/it frills
we frill
you frill
they frill

Preterite
I frilled
you frilled
he/she/it frilled
we frilled
you frilled
they frilled

Present Continuous
I am frilling
you are frilling
he/she/it is frilling
we are frilling
you are frilling
they are frilling

Present Perfect
I have frilled
you have frilled
he/she/it has frilled
we have frilled
you have frilled
they have frilled

Past Continuous
I was frilling
you were frilling
he/she/it was frilling
we were frilling
you were frilling
they were frilling

Past Perfect
I had frilled
you had frilled
he/she/it had frilled
we had frilled
you had frilled
they had frilled

Future
I will frill
you will frill
he/she/it will frill
we will frill
you will frill
they will frill

Future Perfect
I will have frilled
you will have frilled
he/she/it will have frilled
we will have frilled
you will have frilled
they will have frilled

Future Continuous
I will be frilling
you will be frilling
he/she/it will be frilling
we will be frilling
you will be frilling
they will be frilling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been frilling
you have been frilling
he/she/it has been frilling
we have been frilling
you have been frilling
they have been frilling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been frilling
you will have been frilling
he/she/it will have been frilling
we will have been frilling
you will have been frilling
they will have been frilling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been frilling
you had been frilling
he/she/it had been frilling
we had been frilling
you had been frilling
they had been frilling

Conditional
I would frill
you would frill
he/she/it would frill
we would frill
you would frill
they would frill

Past Conditional
I would have frilled
you would have frilled
he/she/it would have frilled
we would have frilled
you would have frilled
they would have frilled

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	frill - (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaursplate - any flat platelike body structure or partfossilology, palaeontology, paleontology - the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains
	2.	frill - an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animalruffexternal body part - any body part visible externally
	3.	frill - a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trimflounce, furbelow, ruffleadornment - a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainnessgauffer, goffer - an ornamental frill made by pressing pleatsjabot - a ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirtpeplum - a flared ruffle attached to the waistline of a dress or jacket or blouse
	4.	frill - ornamental objects of no great valuefalderol, folderal, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumperydecoration, ornament, ornamentation - something used to beautify

frill

noun1. ruffle, gathering, tuck, ruff, flounce, ruche, ruching, furbelow, purfle net curtains with frillsplural noun1. trimmings, extras, additions, fuss, jazz (slang), dressing up, decoration(s), bits and pieces, icing on the cake, finery, embellishments, affectation(s), ornamentation, ostentation, frippery, bells and whistles, tomfoolery, gewgaws, superfluities, fanciness, frilliness, fandangles The booklet restricts itself to facts without frills.no frills plain, ordinary, modest, unpretentious, without extras, unostentatious, without trimmings, with no fancy bits, without bells and whistles plain, simple cooking in no-frills surroundings

frill

nounSomething costly and unnecessary:extravagance, extravagancy, luxury.

Translations

不必要的装饰虚饰褶边饰边

frill

(fril) noun1. a decorative edging to a piece of cloth, made of a strip of cloth gathered along one side and sewn on. She sewed a frill along the bottom of the skirt. 褶邊，飾邊 褶边，饰边 2. (often in plural) something unnecessary added as decoration. the frills of business (= having expensive dinners etc). 不必要的揮霍，贅飾 不必要的装饰，虚饰 frilled, ˈfrilly adjective decorated with frills. a frilled curtain; a frilly dress. 有荷葉邊的 有饰边的