| 单词 | tentacle |
| 释义 | tentacle (once / 2948 pages) n A tentacle is long, ropey thing that sticks out of an animal’s face. You probably think they’re gross. Octopuses probably think they’re cute. You can use the word tentacle when referring to all kinds of things that grasp and hold, not just slithery creatures like octopi and jellyfish. But the word does have creepy associations, which is why “the tentacles of organized crime” is a more common expression than, say, the “tentacles of friendship.” WORD FAMILYtentacle: tentacles, tentacular USAGE EXAMPLESWestern Europe rose at the expense of the East - and it was not long before its tentacles sprawled around the world. BBC(Dec 22, 2016) PiS’s tentacles are spreading from the government and media to civil society. Economist(Dec 20, 2016) The wells feed thick, black hoses that stretch like tentacles for miles across the salt crust. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) 1n any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion Hypo|Hyper antenna, feeler one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste barbel, feelerslender tactile process on the jaws of a fish appendage, outgrowth, process a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant 2n something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold caught in the tentacles of organized crime Hyper grasp, grip an intellectual hold or understanding |
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