| 单词 | claw |
| 释义 | claw (once / 523 pages) nv The word claw is all about grabbing. It could be a lobster claw or even an ambitious worker clawing his way up the corporate ladder. As a noun, a claw is the pointy finger-like grabbers that birds, insects, and some lizards and mammals have. Machines can have claws too, and maybe you’ve seen the game at an arcade where you make a metal claw pick up a toy. Claw can be a verb as well, meaning to grab, scratch, or pull in a painful and jolting way. Should someone bury you up to your neck in a hole, you’ll have to claw your way out. And you can accidentally claw your date if you grab her arm during a scary movie. WORD FAMILYclaw: clawed, clawing, clawlike, claws, declaw+/declaw: declawed, declawing USAGE EXAMPLESStocks are opening slightly higher on Wall Street as the market claws back some of the ground it lost a day earlier. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) “Natural selection is heinously immoral,” he said, invoking Tennyson’s view that nature is “red in tooth and claw.” The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) The new year will yield more such clawing. Los Angeles Times(Dec 24, 2016) 1n sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles Hypo|Hyper bear claw claw of a bear; often used in jewelry talona sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey horny structure, unguis any rigid body structure composed primarily of keratin 2n a bird's foot Hyper bird's foot the foot of a bird 3n a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods Syn|Hyper chela, nipper, pincer appendage, extremity, member an external body part that projects from the body 4n a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something Syn|Hypo|Hyper hook anchor, ground tackle a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving pothookan S-shaped hook to suspend a pot over a fire tenterhookone of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter grapnel, grapnel anchora light anchor for small boats mooring anchoran anchor used to hold a mooring buoy or a channel marker in place mushroom anchoran anchor used for semipermanent moorings; has a bowl-shaped head that will dig in however it falls sheet anchor, waist anchorspare anchor for use in emergency trammelan adjustable pothook set in a fireplace mechanical device mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles 5v scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails Hypo|Hyper clapperclaw claw with the nails scrape, scratch, scratch up cut the surface of; wear away the surface of 6v attack as if with claws The politician clawed his rival Hyper assail, assault, attack, lash out, round, snipe attack in speech or writing 7v move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging They clawed their way to the top of the mountain Hyper make, work proceed along a path 8v clutch as if in panic She clawed the doorknob Hyper clutch, prehend, seize take hold of; grab |
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