单词 | striation |
释义 | striation (once / 64942 pages) n If the rock you found on the beach has a deep striation, it means there's an engraved stripe or groove running across it. If the word stripes seems too fun and informal for your descriptive needs, you might want to try striations, which is tech talk for the same thing. Striation likes to keep company with other technical words like longitudinal and transverse, more commonly known as lengthwise and across. The Latin root of striation, stria, means "furrow, channel, or flute of a column." WORD FAMILYstriation: striations+/stria: striae, striate/striate: striated, striates, striating, striation USAGE EXAMPLESTo the west, orange and peach striations yielded to a deep blue that mellowed the full sky. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) He pointed to one and noted the striations within his biceps. New York Times(Oct 28, 2016) The rotation was evident through the striations and twisting updraft referred to as a barber's pole. BBC(Aug 09, 2016) 1n any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue Syn|Hyper stria channel, groove a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) 2n a stripe or stripes of contrasting color Syn|Hypo|Hyper band, banding, stria collar (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal stretch marka narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy) bar, streak, stripe a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background |
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