spire

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /spaɪə/|/ˈspaɪ.ə/    美 /ˈspaɪ.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The stalk or stem of a plant. archaic
  2. One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
    — A dragon's fiery form bely'd the god: Sublime on radiant spires he rode.
  3. A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
    — Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire, and was breaking it to get the seeds.
  4. A spiral.
  5. Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
  6. The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
  7. A sharp or tapering point.
    — A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
  8. A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
    — The spire of the church rose high above the town.
  9. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
    — the spire and top of praises
  10. A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
动词 v.
  1. to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
    — In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race / Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre, / And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre.
  2. To breathe. intransitive,obsolete
  3. To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
  4. To furnish with a spire. transitive

词形变化

spires plural spires present,singular,third-person spiring participle,present spired participle,past spired past spires present,singular,third-person spiring participle,present spired participle,past spired past spires plural

词汇关系

衍生词
acrospire broached spire spireless spirelet spirelike spireward spirewise spiry

词源

词源 1
From Middle English spire, spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr, from Proto-Germanic *spīrō, *spīrǭ (“peak; point; tip; stalk”). Cognate with Dutch spier, German Low German Spier, German Spier, Spiere, Danish spir, Norwegian spir and spire, Swedish spira, Icelandic spíra.
词源 2
From Old French spirer, and its source, Latin spīrō (“to breathe”).
词源 3
From Middle French spire.
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