| 单词 | volute |
| 释义 | volute (once / 19634 pages) nadj WORD FAMILY volute: circumvolute, involute, volutes+/circumvolute: circumvoluted USAGE EXAMPLESA long pointer, emerging from the area of no light beside the screen, rests on the volutes and helices, indicating which is which. Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye(1988) Iron bands are readily bent into volutes, or curves of various descriptions, and the parts so formed can be united by welding, screws, or bolts. Dresser, Christopher, Principles of Decorative Design—Fou...(2012) These shells were formerly blended with the Linn�an Volutes, but are now detached from them as a distinct genus. Swainson, William, Zoological Illustrations, Volume II...(2012) 1n ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center Syn|Hyper spiral decoration, ornament, ornamentation something used to beautify 2n a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops Syn|Hypo|Hyper coil, helix, spiral, whorl hank a coil of rope or wool or yarn skeincoils of worsted yarn construction, structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts 3adj in the shape of a coil Syn coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, voluted, whorled coiled curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals) |
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