sickle英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

— Coordinate term: scythe
Anything resembling a sickle, especially:; A sickle feather, any of the sickle-shaped rear feathers of the domestic cock.
Anything resembling a sickle, especially:; The crescent moon. poetic

— Then, ere the silver sickle of that month Became her golden shield, I stole from court With Cyril and with Florian, unperceived.

动词 v.

To cut with a sickle. rare,transitive

— Near-synonyms: reap, mow
Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape. intransitive

— Even the cells of heterozygotes will sickle if the oxygen tension is low enough.
To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape, to cause to sickle. transitive

词形变化

sickles plural sickles present,singular,third-person sickling participle,present sickled participle,past sickled past

词汇关系

衍生词

chain sickle chicken sickle hammer and sickle moonsickle sickle and hammer sicklebill sickle-billed vanga sicklebush sickle cell sickle-cell anemia sicklelike sickleman sicklemia sickle moon sicklepod sickleweed sicklewise unsickle sickler

词源

词源 1

From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, siċel, from Proto-West Germanic *sikilu, itself borrowed from Latin sēcula (“sickle”) or sīcīlis (“sickle”). Cognate with Dutch sikkel, German Sichel. Remotely related with English scythe and saw.

词源 2

From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, siċel, from Proto-West Germanic *sikilu, itself borrowed from Latin sēcula (“sickle”) or sīcīlis (“sickle”). Cognate with Dutch sikkel, German Sichel. Remotely related with English scythe and saw.