flaw

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /flɔː/|/floː/    美 /floː/|/flɔ/|/flɑ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A flake, fragment, or shiver. obsolete
  2. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
    — And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw
  3. A thin cake, as of ice. obsolete
  4. A storm of short duration.
  5. A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
    — There is a flaw in that knife.
  6. A sudden burst of noise and disorder
    — And deluges of armies from the town / Come pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw.
  7. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
    — Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?
  8. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.; An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
  9. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.; A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
    — a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute
动词 v.
  1. To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective. transitive
  2. To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break. intransitive

词形变化

flaws plural flaws present,singular,third-person flawing participle,present flawed participle,past flawed past flaws plural flawe alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
design flaw flawful flawless flawsome flawy Persian flaw tragic flaw

词源

词源 1
From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *plok- (“broad, flat”).
Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English flōh (“a fragment, piece”).
词源 2
From Middle English *flaugh, from Middle Dutch vlāghe or Middle Low German vlāge, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *flagā. Or, possibly of North Germanic origin, from Swedish flaga (“gust of wind”), from Old Norse flaga; all from Proto-Germanic *flagǭ (“blow, strike”). See modern Dutch vlaag (“gust of wind”).
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