英语词汇“anvil”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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An anvil is a heavy block of iron or steel that blacksmiths use to shape metal. It's durable enough to withstand red hot metals and repeated hammer blows, but you don't want your foot to be under if it falls off the table.

We most often associate anvils with metalworking (or cartoon coyotes standing in the wrong place at the wrong time), but did you know that there is also a tiny bone in the middle ear called the anvil? It works with other small bones to transmit vibrations that allow us to hear noises. Scientists also call this bone the incus, but it got the name anvil because of its similarity to the blacksmith’s tool. They may be the same shape, but the bone weighs a few milligrams, while the tool can weigh hundreds of pounds.

WORD FAMILY

anvil: anvils

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One of the more popular races is the Quintuple Anvil, which grew to 16 competitors this year from seven in 2013, its inaugural year.

New York Times(Nov 01, 2016)

It was as if a blacksmith had an anvil in my head.

Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy S...(2007)

Club also covered the episode by saying its writers were “about as subtle as an anvil.”

Washington Times(Oct 25, 2016)

n a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering

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block

a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)

n the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes

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incus

auditory ossicle

ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear

单词	anvil
释义	anvil (once / 2714 pages) 1n 2n An anvil is a heavy block of iron or steel that blacksmiths use to shape metal. It's durable enough to withstand red hot metals and repeated hammer blows, but you don't want your foot to be under if it falls off the table. We most often associate anvils with metalworking (or cartoon coyotes standing in the wrong place at the wrong time), but did you know that there is also a tiny bone in the middle ear called the anvil? It works with other small bones to transmit vibrations that allow us to hear noises. Scientists also call this bone the incus, but it got the name anvil because of its similarity to the blacksmith’s tool. They may be the same shape, but the bone weighs a few milligrams, while the tool can weigh hundreds of pounds. WORD FAMILY anvil: anvils USAGE EXAMPLES One of the more popular races is the Quintuple Anvil, which grew to 16 competitors this year from seven in 2013, its inaugural year. New York Times(Nov 01, 2016) It was as if a blacksmith had an anvil in my head. Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy S...(2007) Club also covered the episode by saying its writers were “about as subtle as an anvil.” Washington Times(Oct 25, 2016) 1 n a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering Hyper block a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) 2 n the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes Syn\|Hyper incus auditory ossicle ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear
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