keel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kiːl/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
    — I hear the noise about thy keel; ⁠I hear the bell struck in the night: ⁠I see the cabin-window bright; I see the sailor at the wheel.
  2. Red chalk; ruddle. Scotland
  3. A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
  4. A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
  5. In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
  6. The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg. broadly
    — The most important ice features are the frequency and extent of downward projections (bummocks and ice keels) from the underside of the ice canopy (pack ice and enclosed water areas from the point of view of the submariner)[…]
  7. A type of flat-bottomed boat.
    — The ladies remained at the house, while the men walked to the staith on the [River] Wear, and were shown the process of unloading the wagons into the keels by means of the coal-drop.
  8. The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
    — Metanotum shining, indistinctly punctured at the base in the centre, the sides closely punctured; the areola large, obliquely narrowed at the base, its apex open, there are 2 lateral areas, both widely open at the base on the outerside; the posterior median area bears about 10 stout, transverse keels; on its apical outerside is a triangular area; the spiracular is bounded on the outerside by a distinct keel.
  9. The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
    — Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]
动词 v.
  1. Pronunciation spelling of kill. alt-of,humorous,nonstandard,pronunciation-spelling
  2. To mark with ruddle. Scotland,transitive
  3. To cool; make cool; to cool by stirring or skimming in order to keep from boiling over. obsolete,transitive
    — A merrie note, / While greaſie Ione doth keele the pot.
  4. To collapse, to fall. intransitive
    — He keeled over after having a stroke.
  5. To moderate the ardour or intensity of; assuage; to appease, pacify, or lessen. obsolete,transitive
  6. To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
  7. To become cool; cool down. intransitive,obsolete
  8. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
bilge keel caudal keel even keel false keel fin keel keelage keel arch keelback keelboat keelful keelhaul keel-jawed needlefish keelless keelman keely off keel on keel sliding keel keel over keeler

词源

词源 1
From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr, itself from Proto-Germanic *keluz, of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English ċēol from a related root. Distantly related to kile.
词源 2
From Middle English kelen, from Old English cēlan (“to cool, to make or become cool”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōlijaną (“to cool”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian käile, köile (“to cool”), Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German Low German köhlen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Danish køle (“to cool”), Icelandic kæla (“to cool”).
词源 3
Probably from Scottish Gaelic cìl (“ruddle”).
词源 4
Compare Scots kele, keil, keill (“to put to death, kill”).
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