| 单词 | segment |
| 释义 | segment (once / 870 pages) nv A segment is one of several pieces that together create a whole. You could offer a segment of your orange to your girlfriend as a Valentine's Day gift. She’ll probably enjoy the orange, but she may break up with you. Lots of things can have segments. You can talk about a segment of a talk show, a segment of a sphere, or the segment of students in your high school who want to join the Drama Club — the ones singing and dancing in the cafeteria every day. You can also use segment as a verb: when you chop down that oak tree in your front yard, you have to segment the trunk into smaller pieces for firewood. WORD FAMILYsegment: segmental, segmentation, segmented, segmenting, segments+/segmental: nonsegmental, segmentally/segmentation: segmentations/segmented: unsegmented USAGE EXAMPLESAn earlier episode placed Paper Boi on a fictional news panel show with parody commercials to break up the show’s segments. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) It’s an outdoor stage in the middle of a city; it’s one segment of a long show, not a concert production controlled by the star. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Another push begins to build a Second Avenue line, though a smaller segment is proposed from 63rd Street to 96th Street. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object finished the final segment of the road Syn|Hypo|Hyper section bend, curve curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) dadothe section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase leafhinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door) lengtha section of something that is long and narrow straight, straightawaya straight segment of a roadway or racecourse subdivision, subsectiona section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided blind bend, blind curvea curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving drop-leafa hinged leaf on a table that can be raised and supported by a bracket elbowa sharp bend in a road or river hairpin benda U-shaped bend in a road stretcha straightaway section of a racetrack part, portion something less than the whole of a human artifact 2n one of the parts into which something naturally divides a segment of an orange Hypo|Hyper metamere, somite one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally sarcomereone of the segments into which a myofibril is divided sectiona segment of a citrus fruit internodea segment of a stem between two nodes part, piece a portion of a natural object 3v divide into segments segment an orange segment a compound word Syn|Hypo|Hyper section syllabicate, syllabify, syllabise, syllabize divide into syllables quarterdivide into quarters divide, part, separate come apart 4v divide or split up The cells segmented Syn|Hyper section divide into segments divide, part, separate come apart |
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