turbanize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To adorn with a turban.
    — Lord, girl. What's happened to your hair. Nappy. Kinky. Turbanize it.
  2. To make more turban-like.
    — Soon after there arose a fashion of wearing an imitation of the turbanized hood, also called a bourrelet — a padded circlet covered with cloth, to which were attached what appeared to be the extremities of a hood.
  3. To convert to the wearing of turbans or, by extension, to increase the percentage of arabs in a population.
    — This Turkish procedure gave the Dutch and German pamphleteers a fine opportunity to raise a cry against the grand Turk of the French and turbanized France, who learned their manners from their good friends the miscreants.
  4. To improve efficiency by scraping off scale from steel alloy pipes.
    — The showing made by this swift water bug so impressed the Admiralty that they took steps to turbanize the British navy.

词形变化

turbanizes present,singular,third-person turbanizing participle,present turbanized participle,past turbanized past

词源

Etymology tree
English turban
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English turbanize
From turban + -ize.
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