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straw 音标拼音: [str'ɔ] n. 稻草,麦管,吸管,一文不值的东西,草帽
a. 稻草的,稻草色的,琐碎的 稻草,麦管,吸管,一文不值的东西,草帽稻草的,稻草色的,琐碎的 straw adj 1: of a pale yellow color like straw; straw- colored n 1: plant fiber used e. g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder 2: material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds [ synonym: { chaff}, { husk}, { shuck}, { stalk}, { straw}, { stubble}] 3: a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white [ synonym: { pale yellow}, { straw}, { wheat}] 4: a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth [ synonym: { straw}, { drinking straw}] v 1: cover or provide with or as if with straw; " cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm" 2: spread by scattering (" straw" is archaic); " strew toys all over the carpet" [ synonym: { strew}, { straw}] Straw \ Straw\, v. t. To spread or scatter. See { Strew}, and { Strow}. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster]
Straw \ Straw\, n. [ OE. straw, stre, stree, AS. stre[' a] w, from the root of E. strew; akin to OFries. str[= e], D. stroo, G. stroh, OHG. str[= o], Icel. str[= a], Dan. straa, Sw. str[* a]. [ root] 166. See { Strew}.] 1. A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle. [ 1913 Webster] I set not a straw by thy dreamings. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Straw is often used in the formation of self- explaining compounds; as, straw- built, straw- crowned, straw- roofed, straw- stuffed, and the like. [ 1913 Webster] { Man of straw}, an effigy formed by stuffing the garments of a man with straw; hence, a fictitious person; an irresponsible person; a puppet. [ 1913 Webster] 261 Moby Thesaurus words for " straw": a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, adjutage, afterglow, afterimage, air, anthrophore, aureate, auric, axis, bagatelle, balance, barley, bauble, bean, beige, bestrew, bibelot, bird seed, bit, bole, bran, brass farthing, broadcast, bubble, buff, buff- yellow, butt, butt end, button, canary, canary- yellow, candle ends, cane, carpophore, cat food, catheter, caudex, caulicle, caulis, cent, chaff, chicken feed, chip, chop, citron, citron- yellow, cobweb, cork, corn, cream, creamy, culm, curio, debris, detritus, disseminate, dog food, down, drainpipe, dust, eatage, ecru, efflux tube, end, ensilage, ether, fag end, fairy, fallow, farce, farthing, feather, feed, fig, filings, fire hose, flaxen, fleabite, flue, flue pipe, fluff, foam, fodder, folderol, footstalk, forage, fossil, fribble, frippery, froth, funicule, funiculus, funnel, fuzz, garden hose, gas pipe, gaud, gewgaw, gilded, gilt, gimcrack, gold, gold- colored, golden, gossamer, grain, hair, halfpenny, haulm, hay, hill of beans, holdover, hose, hosepipe, husks, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, leafstalk, leavings, leftovers, lemon, lemon- yellow, luteolous, lutescent, mash, meal, minikin, mockery, molehill, mote, nipple, oats, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, odds and ends, offscourings, or, organ pipe, orts, parings, pasturage, pasture, pedicel, peduncle, peppercorn, pet food, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, primrose, primrose- colored, primrose- yellow, provender, rags, rap, red cent, reed, reed pipe, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, row of pins, rubbish, ruins, rump, rush, saffron, saffron- colored, saffron- yellow, sallow, sand- colored, sandy, sawdust, scatter, scourings, scraps, scratch, scratch feed, seedstalk, shadow, shavings, shit, siamese, siamese connection, silage, siphon, slops, snap, sneeshing, snorkel, soil pipe, sou, sow, spear, spire, sponge, spume, stalk, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, stipe, stock, straw- colored, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, swill, tap, thistledown, tigella, toy, trace, trifle, trinket, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, tuppence, two cents, twopence, vestige, waste, waste pipe, water pipe, wheat, whim- wham, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish |
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