tattoo

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 [tʰæˈtʰuː]|[tʰæˈtʰʊw]|[tʰaˈtʰʉw]|[tʰaʔʉw]    美 [tʰæˈtʰʉw]|[tʰæˈtʰuː]|[tʰæˈɾʉw]|[tʰæˈtʰʉw]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.
    — His shirt sleeves were turned up, so upon his brawny arms his tattooes were visible.
  2. A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out). countable,uncountable
    — Study goes on until tattoo, which, when Pops was at the Point, was sounded at 9.30, followed by taps at 10.
  3. A pony of a certain breed from India.
  4. A method of decorating a body part, usually the skin, by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
  5. A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters. countable,uncountable
    — The bumblebee's mane glowed in the morning light—each hair sharp and distinct to Eragon—and its blurred wings generated a gentle bombilation, like a tattoo played on a drum.
  6. A military display or pageant. countable,uncountable
  7. A rhythmic tapping. countable,uncountable
    — the right hand became restless and began to beat out a silent tattoo upon the tabletop
动词 v.
  1. To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
    — She made Silas tattoo an anchor on her arm like his
  2. To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
    — He had looked at the clock many scores of times; and at the street, where the rain was pattering down, and the people as they clinked by in pattens, left long reflections on the shining stone: he tattooed at the table: he bit his nails most completely […]
  3. To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
    — Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.

词形变化

tattoos plural tattooes plural,uncommon tattoos present,singular,third-person tattooing participle,present tattooed participle,past tattooed past tattoos plural tattoos present,singular,third-person tattooing participle,present tattooed participle,past tattooed past tattoos plural tattu alternative

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
From earlier tattaow, tattow, a borrowing from a Polynesian language, e.g. Samoan tatau (“tattoo; to tap, to strike”).
词源 2
From earlier tap-to, borrowed from Dutch taptoe, from tap (“tap; faucet on a cask”) + toe (“to; shut”). More at tap, to.
词源 3
From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū).
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