semi-trailing

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having stems thick enough to stand somewhat erect, but eventually drooping like a vine. not-comparable
    — The latter method must be used for some varieties that are semi-trailing and for the frankly trailing sorts, such as the dewberry and youngberry.
  2. Having a movement that pivots on an access which is at an angle between longitudinal and transverse. not-comparable
    — semi-trailing arm suspension
  3. Having an opening syllable that is the continuation of a preceding line and including a syntactic break such as a comma or full stop somewhere after that but before the end. not-comparable
    — I have already pointed out a tendency in the semi-trailing and trailing types for attention to be drawn subtly to the switched pair of syllables; this illusory trochaic framework serves at least in the trailing type to focus attention still more on that pair, as a switch. In the few examples we have of the semi-trailing type, the same effect is not always as clear.
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