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grunts

/gruhnt/US // grʌnt //UK // (ɡrʌnt) //

咕哝声,咕噜声,哼哼唧唧,呼噜声

Related Words

groan呻吟声,呻吟,呻吟一声,哼哼squeak吱吱声,吱吱叫,尖叫声,吱吱squawk喊叫声,呐喊声,尖叫声,呐喊cry哭,哭泣,哭声,呼叫

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to utter the deep, guttural sound characteristic of a hog.
    • : to utter a similar sound.
    • : to grumble, as in discontent.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to express with a grunt.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sound of grunting.
    • : New England Cooking. a dessert, typically of cherries, peaches, or apples sweetened and spiced, and topped with biscuit dough.See also pandowdy.
    • : any food fish of the family Pomadasyidae, found chiefly in tropical and subtropical seas, that emits grunting sounds.
    • : Slang. a soldier, especially an infantryman.
    • : Slang. a common or unskilled worker; laborer.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Forms: grunted
Synonyms
groan呻吟声,呻吟,呻吟一声,哼哼cry哭,哭泣,哭声,呼叫squawk喊叫声,呐喊声,尖叫声,呐喊squeak吱吱声,吱吱叫,尖叫声,吱吱

Examples

  • During this time, bull elk vie for the attention of cows, piercing the mountain air with their signature bugles, grunts, chuckles, and screams.

  • As Amanda Stent, an NLP expert for financial news and information service Bloomberg, explained, technologies like BERT are important because they remove a lot of the grunt work required to train a language model from scratch.

  • That’s when they saw there was an opportunity here to build a tool to track all of this information in one place and connect it to Salesforce to automate a lot of this grunt work.

  • The good news is that developing a successful digital marketing strategy is possible, and it doesn’t have to take grunt work or cost you more than a cup of coffee a day.

  • When Palantir built a new software platform, Foundry, in 2016, the company cut costs by automating much of the grunt work and said it reduced time to set up customers from months to days.

  • The grunt takes a hard look at our interpreter, rotates his M16 and opens the vehicle door, motioning for us to get out.

  • The grunt asks us where we are going and we respond, “to the Korengal.”

  • As a grunt, he lectured a high-ranking officer in protest of Marines who attacked a Vietnamese child.

  • Fortunately, the Food Sense App for the iPhone does the grunt work for you.

  • Piggy, saying nothing, with no time for even a grunt, traveled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went.

  • The noise of his slumbers culminated in a sudden, choking grunt, and abruptly ceased.

  • You must imagine this sound as something between a grunt and a groan, that the estimable lady gave vent to whenever put out.

  • His next line—'To grunt and sweat under a weary life'—resembles ll.

  • Up went the monster with a grunt, and a peculiar rigidity of body, which evidently betokened horror at his situation.

  • After they had passed, a lull fell on the scene, which was soon broken by the grunt and snort of a rhinoceros.

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