| 单词 | filament |
| 释义 | filament (once / 2629 pages) 1n 2n The stamen of a flower — the part that produces pollen — consists of a slender stalk, called a filament and an anther. The filament supports the anther, which is where pollen develops. The word filament is from the Latin word filum, which means "thread." Filament, in fact, can be a synonym for thread. In an incandescent light bulb, a fine wire called a filament is heated to high temperatures in a bulb that lacks oxygen to prevent the filament from catching fire as it is heated. The filament begins to glow and gives off light. The first filaments were made from carbon, now they are usually made from tungsten because of its high melting point. WORD FAMILYfilament: filamentlike, filamentous, filaments USAGE EXAMPLESOne recent fad has been for manta ray gill raker plates — the thin filaments these majestic creatures use to filter food from seawater. Time(Nov 21, 2016) In this case the filament contains 45-65% by volume of magnetic granules. Economist(Nov 17, 2016) Inside the elegantly austere, brick-walled space filament bulbs glow like novas, and spices perfume the air. Seattle Times(Nov 17, 2016) 1 1n a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current Hyper conducting wire, wire a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance 2n a very slender natural or synthetic fiber Syn|Hypo|Hyper fibril, strand barb one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather cobweb, gossamerfilaments from a web that was spun by a spider chromatidone of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis myofibril, myofibrilla, sarcostyleone of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber rhizoidany of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc hyphaany of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus paraphysisa sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia; may be pointed or clubbed conidiophorea specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia Rhizopus stolonifer, leak fungus, ring rot fungusfungus causing soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables and rings of dry rot around roots of sweet potatoes rhizomorpha dense mass of hyphae forming a root-like structure characteristic of many fungi fiber, fibre a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn 3n a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper filum hair, pilus any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal ingrown haira hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation) anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing n the stalk of a stamen Hyper stalk, stem a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ |
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