shroud

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/    美 /ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
    — swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
  2. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
    — Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes.
  3. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
    — O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […]
  4. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
    — Jura answers through her misty shroud.
  5. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
    — The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
  6. One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
    — Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale.
  7. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  8. A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
动词 v.
  1. To cover with a shroud.
    — The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
  2. To lop the branches from (a tree). UK,dialectal,transitive
  3. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
    — The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
  4. To take shelter or harbour.
    — [T]hough this my vvorke, ovvne not vvorth enough to deſerve your patronage, yet ſuch is your benigne humanity, that I am confident you vvill daigne it your protection, under vvhich it vvillingly ſhrovvdes it ſelfe.
    Comus

词形变化

shrouds plural shrouds present,singular,third-person shrouding participle,present shrouded participle,past shrouded past shrouds plural shrouds present,singular,third-person shrouding participle,present shrouded participle,past shrouded past

词汇关系

近义词
sindon cloak cover mantle veil
衍生词
barrel shroud beshroud futtock shroud shroudie shroud knot shroud-laid shroudless shroudlike shroud-waving shroudy unshroud enshroud overshroud reshroud shrouder

词源

词源 1
From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).
词源 2
From Middle English schrouden (> Anglo-Latin scrudāre), from Middle English schroud (“shroud”) (see above).
词源 3
Variant of shred.
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