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

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单词	fringe
释义	fringe I. \ˈfrinj\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English frenge, from Middle French frenge, frange, fringe, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin frimbia, from Latin fimbria 1. : an ornamental border (as for clothing, upholstery, curtains) consisting of short lengths of straight or twisted thread, cord, or leather hanging from cut or raveled edges of garments or from a separate band and often grouped or knotted in various designs 2. : something resembling a fringe : border, edging, margin, periphery < the … people who lived just outside the fringe of the drought area — R.W.Murray > < a narrow fringe of continental coast — Encyc. Americana > as a. : a growth like a fringe (as of hair or bristles) < hair forming a fringe around his bald head — Frances H. Eliot > b. : bang V c. : a fimbriate border (as that of certain petals); specifically : the peristome of a moss d. : the confused double outline produced by lack of registration between two or more component pictures of a color photograph e. : one of various light or dark bands produced by the interference or diffraction of light f. : vague images and feelings attending a definite idea or sometimes present when the idea cannot be recalled 3. a. : something that is marginal, borderline, or introductory in relation to some activity, process, or subject matter : something that is secondary or supplementary to what is basic or central in importance or value < this is an enormous field of which I can here touch only the fringe — G.G.Coulton > < education for an age in which leisure is the center rather than the fringe — John Diebold > b. : a group of persons occupying a marginal, extremist, or markedly deviant position (as economically, socially, politically, or culturally) < an unwashed child from the criminal fringe of town — Frances G. Patton > < the fringes of Salem society were superstitious — Van Wyck Brooks > < this attack has been well organized by fringe groups — New Republic > < that is what they talk about in the fringe sects, not in proper congregations — Time > < the fringe types — the pathological and near pathological — John McPartland > — see lunatic fringe c. : fringe benefit < most unions want higher pensions, health and welfare, other fringes — Kiplinger Washington Letter > II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) *transitive verb* 1. : to furnish or adorn with or as if with a fringe < the cloth over the tea table is fringed with blue elephants — New Yorker > < fringe a rug > 2. : to serve as a fringe for < grass fringed the stream > *intransitive verb* : to spread out like a fringe < in that medieval time the cathedral fringed out into the university — Francis Hackett >
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