| 单词 | crenelle |
| 释义 | crenelle (once / 23975 pages) n WORD FAMILY crenelle: crenelate, crenellate, crenelles+/crenelate: crenelated, crenelation/crenelation: crenelations/crenellate: crenellated, crenellation/crenellation: crenellations USAGE EXAMPLESCorrupted from crenelle; the holes in a battlement made for the purpose of shooting arrows and small shot. Belcher, Edward, Sir, The Sailor's Word-Book—An Alphabet...(2010) A line, formed like the battlements on a wall or tower, is said to be embattled or crenelle. Anonymous, The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Editi...(2010) Notch -- N. notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation; dimple. embrasure, battlement, machicolation†; saw, tooth, crenelle†, scallop, scollop†, vandyke; depression; jag. Roget, Peter Mark, Roget's Thesaurus of English Words...(2010) 1n a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement Syn|Hyper crenel space an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things) 2n one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) Syn|Hyper crenation, crenature, crenel, scallop curve, curved shape the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes |
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