backwing

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of backwinging.
    — With a disgusted backwing, I let myself down, hard.
  2. One of the posterior pair of wings on an insect.
    — The white band on the under side of the backwings is often reduced.
  3. The back portion of a bird's wing.
    — I require a rigid skeletal shape and vent bones, nothing soft of spongy, excellent musculature, soft feathering and a good backwing and tail
  4. A wing-like projection on the upper back of some a Wayang puppets.
    — The colours of the backwing are the following: the gubahan motif must be gilded, the tendrils of the gubahan motife are preferably made blue or or orange, the leaf work must be red and green.
  5. The flap of a dust jacket that folds around the back cover of a book.
    — Mr Roger Opie, a Cornish farmer whose military knowledge would make him a formidable adversary if ever the Duchy declared itself independent, was the reader for whom I first imagined myself to be writing; to his encouragement, his wife Sue added the photographic expertise which contrived the flattering portrait that adorns the backwing of the jacket.
  6. A wing at the rear of a building.
    — We are rather stifled by the Administration, however, until the second and third floors of the backwings are completed and we can kick the Applied Mechanics Department and Mineral Industries Department out, when they can move in the new Academic Science Building when that is completed, at which time then we will have space for a lounge.
动词 v.
  1. To flap the wings in such a way as to push air forward, thereby slowing forward momentum.
    — As he got out, a raven backwinged to a landing in a nearby tree and was scolded by a squirrel who had thought that it was his spruce.

词形变化

backwings present,singular,third-person backwinging participle,present backwinged participle,past backwinged past backwings plural
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