hollow

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /ˈhɒləʊ/    美 /ˈhɑloʊ/|/ˈhɑlɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small valley between mountains.
    — He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.
  2. A sunken area on a surface.
    — He held the chick in the hollow of his hand.
  3. An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
    — a hollow in a tree trunk
  4. A feeling of emptiness. figuratively
    — a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach
动词 v.
  1. to make a hole in something; to excavate transitive
  2. To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.
    — [T]he Converſation (if it may be called ſo) was ſeldom ſuch as could entertain a Lady. It conſiſted chiefly of Hollowing, Singing, Relations of ſporting Adventures, B—d—y, and Abuſe of Women and of the Government.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having an empty space or cavity inside.
    — a hollow tree; a hollow sphere
  2. Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
    — He let out a hollow moan.
  3. Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless. figuratively
    — a hollow victory
  4. Insincere, devoid of validity; specious. figuratively
    — a hollow promise
  5. Concave; gaunt; sunken.
    — To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
  6. Pertaining to hollow body position
  7. Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
    — While most 1974s remain hard, tannic, hollow wines lacking ripeness, flesh, and character, a number of the Graves estates did produce surprisingly spicy, interesting wines.
副词 adv.
  1. Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow. colloquial,not-comparable
感叹词 intj.
  1. Alternative form of hollo. alt-of,alternative

词形变化

hollows plural hallow alternative holler alternative,Southern-US,dialectal,especially,nonstandard hollows present,singular,third-person hollowing participle,present hollowed participle,past hollowed past hallow alternative holler alternative,Southern-US,dialectal,especially,nonstandard hollower comparative hollowest superlative hallow alternative holler alternative,Southern-US,dialectal,especially,nonstandard hallow alternative holler alternative,Southern-US,dialectal,especially,nonstandard hollows present,singular,third-person hollowing participle,present hollowed participle,past hollowed past hallow alternative holler alternative,Southern-US,dialectal,especially,nonstandard hallow alternative holler alternative,Southern-US,dialectal,especially,nonstandard

词汇关系

衍生词
Black Hollow Frogs Hollow frost hollow hollow of the knee Quail Hollow Sandy Hollow Sleepy Hollow Ten Mile Hollow tree hollow all hollow hollow back hollow block hollow body hollow book hollow earther hollow-eyed hollow-faced bat hollow-fiber hollowfiber hollowfibre hollow-fibre hollow-hearted hollowhearted hollow-heartedly hollow-heartedness hollow leg hollowly hollowness hollow point hollow position hollow post mill hollow rail hollowroot hollow sprint hollow victory hollowware hollowwort jacketed hollow point nonhollow overhollow ring hollow semihollow unhollow

词源

词源 1
From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *holh, from Proto-Germanic *hulhwą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱólḱwos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Related to hole.
词源 2
From Middle English holowe, holwe, holuȝ, holgh, from the noun (see above).
词源 3
Compare holler.
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