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单词 over the moon
释义

moon /moon/

noun
  1. (often with cap) the earth's natural satellite, illuminated to varying degrees by the sun depending on its position
  2. Its appearance to an observer on earth, in respect of its degree of illumination (full moon, half moon, etc)
  3. A natural satellite of any planet
  4. A month (literary)
  5. Anything in the shape of a moon or crescent
  6. A crescent-shaped outwork (fortification)
transitive verb

To decorate with moons or crescents

intransitive verb
  1. To wander about listlessly or gaze vacantly at anything (usu with around or about)
  2. To present one's bare buttocks to public view, esp through a vehicle window (slang)
ORIGIN: OE mōna; cf Ger Mond, L mēnsis, Gr men

mooned adjective

Marked with the figure of a moon

moonˈer noun

A person who moons or moons about

moonˈish adjective

  1. Like the moon
  2. Variable
  3. Inconstant

moonˈless adjective

  1. Without moonlight
  2. (of a planet) having no moon

moonˈlet noun

A small planetary satellite, whether natural or man-made

moonˈy adjective

  1. Of or relating to the moon
  2. Moon-like
  3. Crescent-shaped
  4. Bearing a crescent
  5. Round and shining
  6. Moonlit
  7. Inclined to moon, dreamy
  8. Fatuous
  9. Tipsy (slang)
noun

A noodle

moonˈ-ball noun (tennis)

A high arcing shot

intransitive verb

To hit such a shot

moonˈbeam noun

A ray of sunlight reflected from the moon

moonˈblind adjective

  1. Affected with mooneye
  2. Blinded by the moon
  3. Nightblind
  4. Dim-sighted, purblind (now dialect)

moon blindness noun

  1. Nyctalopia
  2. Mooneye (see below)

moon boot noun

A bulky padded boot with a quilted fabric covering, for wearing in snow, reminiscent of an astronaut's boot

moonˈbow noun

A rainbow cast by the moon

moonˈcake noun

A round cake with a lotus seed or sweet bean paste filling, orig eaten as part of the Chinese moon festival

moonˈcalf noun

  1. A false conception or fleshy mass formed in the womb
  2. A monster (obsolete)
  3. A deformed creature (obsolete)
  4. A dolt, fool

moon daisy noun

The ox-eye daisy

moonˈeye noun

  1. A disease affecting horses' eyes
  2. A N American freshwater shad-like fish of the genus Hiodon, esp H. tergisus

moonˈ-eyed adjective

  1. Affected with mooneye, moonblind
  2. Round- or wide-eyed
  3. Drunk (US sl)

moonˈface noun

A full, round face

moonˈ-faced adjective

moonˈfish noun

The opah or other silvery disc-shaped fish

moon flask noun

A type of Chinese porcelain vase with a wide, circular body and a short, narrow neck

moonˈflower noun

  1. The ox-eye daisy
  2. A night-blooming plant of the Convolvulaceae, Calonyction aculeatum, or any of several related plants

moon gate noun

A circular opening in a wall serving as a gateway, esp in Chinese architecture

moonˈ-glade noun

The track of moonlight on water

moon god or moon goddess noun

A god or goddess representing or associated with the moon

moon knife noun

A leather-worker's crescent-shaped knife

moonˈlight noun

  1. The light of the moon, sunlight reflected from the moon's surface
  2. Smuggled alcoholic spirit

adjective

  1. Lit by the moon
  2. Occurring in moonlight

intransitive verb

To work outside one's normal working hours, esp when the income from this is not declared for tax assessment

moonˈlighter noun

  1. A person who moonlights
  2. In Ireland about 1800, a person who committed violent offences against farmers and farms, in protest against the introduction of the land-tenure system (historical)
  3. A moonshiner

moonlight flit or moonlight flitting noun

A hasty removal by night, esp without paying due rent

moonˈlighting noun

moonˈlit adjective

Lit or illumined by the moon

moonˈ-loved adjective (poetic)

Loved by the moon

moonˈ-madness noun (archaic)

Lunacy, once thought to be connected with the moon's changes

moonˈphase noun

The current phase of the moon, as indicated eg on a watch or calendar

moon pool noun (oil)

The open shaft let through the hull of a deep-sea drilling vessel to accommodate the vertical pipe-line connected to the oil-well

moonˈquake noun

A tremor of the moon's surface

moonˈ-raised adjective (Walter Scott)

Excited or maddened by the moon

moonˈraker noun

  1. A moonsail
  2. A Wiltshireman

moonˈraking noun

The following of crazy fancies

moon rat noun

A ratlike nocturnal mammal of SE Asia (Echinosorex gymnurus)

moonˈrise noun

The rising of the moon, or the time when this occurs

moonˈrock noun

  1. Rock from the moon's surface
  2. A synthetic narcotic drug combining heroin and crack (slang)

moonˈroof noun

A transparent roof section on a motor vehicle, usu opening or removable, a sunroof

moonˈsail noun

A small sail, sometimes carried above the sky-scraper

moonˈscape noun

  1. The physical appearance of the surface of the moon, or a representation of it
  2. A desolate landscape resembling this (figurative)

moonˈseed noun

A plant (genus Menispermum) with lunate seeds

moonˈset noun

The setting of the moon, or the time when this occurs

moonˈshine noun

  1. Moonlight
  2. Show without reality (figurative)
  3. Nonsense (informal)
  4. A month (Shakespeare)
  5. Spirits illicitly distilled or smuggled (chiefly N American)

adjective

  1. Lit by the moon
  2. Made of moonlight, bodiless (figurative)

moonˈshiner noun (chiefly N American)

A smuggler or illicit distiller of spirits

moonˈshiny adjective

  1. Lit by the moon
  2. Visionary, unreal

moonˈshot noun

An act, or the process, of launching an object or vehicle to orbit, or land on, the moon

moonˈstone noun

An opalescent orthoclase feldspar, perh sometimes selenite (its appearance once thought to change with the waxing and waning of the moon)

moonˈstrike noun

The act or process of landing a spacecraft on the surface of the moon

moonˈstruck adjective

(also moonˈ-stricken) behaving as if mentally affected by the moon, lunatic, crazed

moonˈwalk noun

  1. An astronaut's walk on the surface of the moon
  2. A style of dancing resembling weightless movement

intransitive verb

To perform a moonwalk

moonˈwalker noun

moonˈwort noun

  1. A eusporangiate fern (Botrychium lunaria) with lunate pinnae
  2. Any other plant of the genus Botrychium
  3. The plant honesty (from its silvery septum)

eggs in moonshine

An old dish, fried eggs with onions and various flavourings

many moons ago (informal)

A very long time ago

over the moon (informal)

Delighted

over /ōˈvər/

preposition
  1. Above in place, rank, power, authority, contention, preference, value, quantity, number, etc
  2. In excess of
  3. Above and from one side of to the other
  4. Down from or beyond the edge of
  5. From side to side or end to end of
  6. Along
  7. Throughout the extent of
  8. During
  9. Until after
  10. Across
  11. On or to the other side of
  12. On, onto, about, or across the surface of
  13. In discussion, contemplation, study of or occupation with
  14. Concerning
  15. On account of
  16. Recovered from the effects of
  17. In a sunk, submerged, or buried state beyond the level of, as in over head and ears
adverb
  1. On the top
  2. Above
  3. Across
  4. To or on the other side
  5. From one person, party, condition, etc, to another
  6. Into a sleep
  7. Outwards so as to overhang or to fall from
  8. Down, away from an upright position
  9. Through, from beginning to end, esp in a cursory or exploratory way
  10. Throughout
  11. Into a reversed position
  12. Across the margin
  13. Again, in repetition
  14. Too much
  15. In excess
  16. Left remaining
  17. At an end
interjection (radio)

Indicating that the speaker now expects a reply

adjective
  1. (usu as pfx) upper or superior
  2. Surplus
  3. Excessive
noun
  1. A series of (usu six) balls after which play changes from one end to the other (cricket)
  2. Anything that is over
  3. A surplus copy, etc
  4. An excess, overplus
transitive verb

To go, leap or vault over

—Also, only as adv and prep o'er (now usu poetic), ore (obs), o're (obs), all pronounced /ōr or ör/, and in Scots ower, owre or o'er, pronounced /owr or ōr/

ORIGIN: OE ofer; Ger über, L super, Gr hyper; cf up

overage /ōˈvə-rij/ noun

Surplus, excess (see also over-age under over-)

oˈverly adverb (informal, orig US)

  1. Excessively, too
  2. Casually (Scot)
  3. Superciliously (obsolete)
adjective
  1. Casual (Scot)
  2. Supercilious, superior (obsolete)

oˈver-and-unˈder noun

A double-barrelled gun having the barrels one on top of the other rather than side by side (also under-and-oˈver)

overbyˈ adverb

A little way over, esp in Scots forms owerby, o'erby /owr-bīˈ/

over rate noun (cricket)

The rate at which overs are bowled

over-the-counˈter adjective

  1. (of securities, etc) not listed on or traded through a stock exchange, but traded directly between buyers and sellers
  2. (of drugs, etc) able to be bought or sold without prescription or licence

over-the-topˈ adjective

Excessive, extreme, too much

all over

  1. At an end
  2. Everywhere
  3. At his, her or its most characteristic (informal)
  4. Covered with, besmeared or bespattered with (informal)

all over again

Again from the beginning, anew

be all over (someone)

To make a fuss of, fawn on (someone)

over again

All over again

over against

Opposite

over and above

  1. In addition to
  2. Besides

over and out (radio)

An expression used to announce the end of one's transmission

over and over (again)

  1. Many times
  2. Repeatedly

over head and ears

Completely submerged

over seas

To foreign lands

over the hill see under hill

over the moon see under moon

over to you!

Used to transfer the initiative in speaking, etc, to another person

put one over on (informal)

  1. To gain an advantage over someone
  2. To deceive someone
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