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ell

/el/US // ɛl //UK // (ɛl) //

椭圆形,椭圆,省略,省略号

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
    • : elbow.
    • : something that is L-shaped.

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Examples

  • I got halfway across the street and realized: "Effin'ell, I didn't pay!"

  • An end of the old house had been burned several years before, but the kitchen ell was still standing, with chimney complete.

  • Lamb saw an ashen-face bespectacled man peering around the corner of an ell.

  • A long ell ran out behind, evidently containing the kitchen and then the sheds and outhouses.

  • The side door, on a grape-shadowed porch, was in this ell, facing the barn across the way.

  • C(urrer) B(ell) was a thin disguise for C(harlotte) B(ront), but it did not deceive the relatives.