| 单词 | fox |
| 释义 | fox (once / 661 pages) 1n 2nv 3v A fox is a small, dog-like wild animal with pointed ears and nose, and a thick tail. A red fox has dark front legs that look like little opera gloves. They’re sneaky, so a fox can also be a tricky person. There are different kinds of foxes, but they all have a reputation for sneaking around and stealing stuff. Because they’re known for being wily and smart, you can use the word fox to describe someone who's sly: "That old fox always manages to get other people to buy his lunch." Colloquially, a fox is also an attractive person. They say don’t let a fox guard the henhouse, even if the fox is really good looking. WORD FAMILYfox: foxed, foxes, foxing, foxy+/foxy: foxier, foxiest, foxily, foxiness USAGE EXAMPLES“You don’t want to put the fox in charge of the hen house,” said Robert Ambrogi, of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) They say they intervened to save the fox and were attacked by a hunt employee. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) Who’s very good at finding foxes, killing them and then ripping them apart? Salon(Dec 27, 2016) 1 1n alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs Hypo|Hyper vixen a female fox Reynarda conventional name for a fox used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox' Vulpes vulpes, red foxthe common Old World fox; having reddish-brown fur; commonly considered a single circumpolar species Vulpes fulva, red foxNew World fox; often considered the same species as the Old World fox Vulpes velox, kit fox, prairie foxsmall grey fox of the plains of western North America Vulpes macrotis, kit foxsmall grey fox of southwestern United States; may be a subspecies of Vulpes velox Alopex lagopus, Arctic fox, white foxthickly-furred fox of Arctic regions; brownish in summer and white in winter Urocyon cinereoargenteus, gray fox, grey foxdark grey American fox; from Central America through southern United States black foxred fox in the color phase when its pelt is mostly black silver foxred fox in the color phase when its pelt is tipped with white blue foxa variety of Arctic fox having a pale grey winter coat canid, canine any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles 2n the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox 2Hyper fur, pelt the dressed hairy coat of a mammal 1n a shifty deceptive person Syn|Hyper dodger, slyboots beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster someone who leads you to believe something that is not true 2v deceive somebody Syn|Hypo|Hyper flim-flam, fob, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick snooker fool or dupe cozen, deceive, delude, lead on be false to; be dishonest with 3v be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fuddle, throw confuse, disconcert, flurry, put off cause to feel embarrassment demoralize confuse or put into disorder amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vexbe a mystery or bewildering to disorient, disorientatecause to be lost or disoriented mix up, stumpcause to be perplexed or confounded riddleset a difficult problem or riddle elude, escapebe incomprehensible to; escape understanding by be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) v become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots Hyper spot become spotted Fox (once / 496 pages) 1n 2n 3n WORD FAMILY Fox: Foxes USAGE EXAMPLESShe is an actress on Fox’s TV series “Scream Queens,” which just finished airing its second season. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) The current Fox News deal was set to expire at midnight Dec. 31. Wall Street Journal(Jan 01, 2017) “You start something, you want to finish it,” Fox said. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River Hyper Algonquian, Algonquin a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast 2n the Algonquian language of the Fox 2Hyper Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains n English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806) 3Syn|Exp Charles James Fox national leader, solon, statesman a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs n English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691) Syn|Exp George Fox religious person a person who manifests devotion to a deity |
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