chine

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The top of a ridge.
  2. A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea. Southern-England,Vancouver
    — The cottage in a chine, we were not to behold it.
  3. The spine of an animal.
    — And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
  4. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  5. A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
  6. A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
  7. A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
  8. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
  9. The back of the blade on a scythe.
动词 v.
  1. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces. transitive
  2. To crack, split, fissure, break. obsolete
    — The wayward son did chine his father's heart.
  3. To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

词形变化

chines plural chimb alternative chime alternative chines present,singular,third-person chining participle,present chined participle,past chined past chimb alternative chime alternative chines plural chines present,singular,third-person chining participle,present chined participle,past chined past

词汇关系

衍生词
multichine

词源

词源 1
From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Doublet of shin.
词源 2
From Middle English chyne, chynne (“crack, fissure, chasm”), from Old English ċine, ċinu, from Proto-West Germanic *kinu, from Proto-Germanic *kinō.
词源 3
From Middle English chynen (“to crack, fissure, split”), from Old English ċīnan (“to break into pieces, burst, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīnan, from Proto-Germanic *kīnaną (“to split; crack; germinate; sprout”).
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