sheath

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ʃiːθ/    美 /ʃiθ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A holster for a sword; a scabbard.
  2. Anything that has a similar shape to a scabbard that is used to hold an object that is longer than it is wide. broadly
  3. The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a branch or stem, as in grasses.
  4. The insulating outer cover of an electrical cable.
  5. One of the elytra of an insect.
  6. A tight-fitting dress.
  7. The foreskin of certain animals (for example, dogs and horses).
  8. A condom. UK,informal
动词 v.
  1. Obsolete spelling of sheathe. alt-of,obsolete
    — Nay, neuer beare me hence, diſpatch me heere: / Here ſheath thy Sword, Ile pardon thee my death: [...]

词形变化

sheaths plural sheaths present,singular,third-person sheathing participle,present sheathed participle,past sheathed past

词汇关系

衍生词
astrosheath desheath exsheath exsheathment femoral sheath leaf sheath magnetosheath medullary sheath myelin sheath penile sheath penis sheath presheath rhizosheath rice sheath mite root sheath Schwann's sheath sheathbill sheath cake sheath dress sheather sheathfish sheath knife sheathless sheathlike sheathotomy sheath-tail bat sheath-tailed bat sheath-tailed mouse sheathy sub
相关词
sheathe heliosheath resheath resheathe unsheath unsheathe

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sheth, shethe (“holder for a sword, knife, etc., scabbard, sheath”) [and other forms], from Old English sċēaþ (“sheath”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz (“sheath; covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”) (possibly from the notion of a split stick with a sword inserted).
The English word is cognate with Danish skede, Dutch schede, Icelandic skeið, German Scheide, Low German scheed, Norwegian skjede.
词源 2
A variant of sheathe.
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