cowl
/koul/US // kaʊl //UK // (kaʊl) //
罩罩,引擎盖,头罩,罩子
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a hooded garment worn by monks.
- : the hood of this garment.
- : part of a garment that is draped to resemble a cowl or hood.
- : the forward part of the body of a motor vehicle supporting the rear of the hood and the windshield and housing the pedals and instrument panel.
- : a cowling.
- : a hoodlike covering for increasing the draft of a chimney or ventilator.
- : a wire netting fastened to the top of the smokestack of a locomotive to prevent large sparks from being discharged; a spark arrester.
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to cover with or as if with a cowl.
- : to put a monk's cowl on.
- : to make a monk of.
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Examples
The man without fear of signing any role might struggle with the cowl-induced gravitas of Batman.
There was some sort of a phonograph device under the cowl of that get-away car, and this was hooked up to the radio switch.
His cowl was thrown back, revealing his pale, ascetic countenance and shaven head.
A sharp eye was kept on all arrivals from abroad, and a friar, fresh from Portugal, was hanged in his cowl at Limerick.
His cowl had half-fallen back, and made a strange excrescence on either side of his bull-neck.
Yes—here he was slain—but it was because he refused to take the cowl, and finish his days in a monastery.
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