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单词 Adam's apples
释义

Adam /adˈəm/

noun
  1. The first man, according to the Book of Genesis
  2. Unregenerate human nature
  3. A gaoler (perh as wearing buff) (Shakespeare)
adjective

Applied to an 18c style of architecture, interior decoration and furniture designed by Robert and James Adam

ORIGIN: Heb Adām

Adamic or Adamical /ə-damˈik, -əl/ adjective

  1. Of or like Adam
  2. Naked

Adˈamite noun

  1. A descendant of Adam
  2. A person who goes about naked, esp a member of a 2c sect in N Africa

Adamitˈic or Adamitˈical adjective

Adˈamitism noun

Adam's ale or Adam's wine noun

Water

Adam's apple noun

  1. The projection of the thyroid cartilage in front of the throat, traditionally supposed to be part of the forbidden fruit stuck in Adam's throat
  2. Forbidden fruit (see forbid)

Adam's flannel noun

Mullein

Adam's needle noun

A species of Yucca

Adam and Eve (Cockney rhyming sl)

To believe

not know someone from Adam (informal)

Not to know someone, or who someone is

forbid /fər- or för-bidˈ/

transitive verb (pat forbade /-badˈ or sometimes -bādˈ/ or forbadˈ; pap forbiddˈen)
  1. To prohibit
  2. To command not to
  3. To deny access
ORIGIN: OE forbēodan, pat forbēad, pap forboden; see for- (1a) and bid1,2; cf Ger verbieten

forbiddˈal or forbiddˈance noun (obsolete)

  1. Prohibition
  2. Command or edict against a thing

forbiddˈen adjective

  1. Prohibited
  2. Unlawful
  3. Not permitted, esp in certain scientific rules
  4. (of a combination of symbols) not in an operating code, ie revealing a fault (computing)

forbiddˈenly adverb (Shakespeare)

In a forbidden or unlawful manner

forbiddˈer noun

forbiddˈing noun

The action of the verb forbid

adjective
  1. Uninviting
  2. Sinister
  3. Unprepossessing
  4. Threatening or formidable in appearance

forbiddˈingly adverb

forbiddˈingness noun

forbode /för-bōdˈ/ noun (archaic)

Prohibition

forbidden degrees see under degree

forbidden fruit noun

  1. The fruit forbidden to Adam in the Bible (Genesis 2.17)
  2. Anything tempting and prohibited
  3. (also Adam's apple) a name fancifully given to the fruit of various species of Citrus, esp to one having tooth-marks on its rind

over God's forbode (archaic)

God forbid

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