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inverness

/in-ver-nes, in-ver-nes/US // ˌɪn vərˈnɛs, ˈɪn vərˌnɛs //UK // (ˌɪnvəˈnɛs) //

倒置,倒立,倒位,倒挂

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called In·ver·ness·shire [in-ver-nes-sheer, -sher]. /ˌɪn vərˈnɛs ʃɪər, -ʃər/. a historic county in NW Scotland.
    • : a seaport and administrative district in the Highland region, in N Scotland. 1,080 sq. mi..
    • : an overcoat with a removable cape.
    • : Also called Inverness cape . the cape of this coat or one resembling it, especially a loose, full, wool or worsted cape in a plaid pattern.

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Examples

  • The Macbeths know this; the audience knows this; but the unsuspecting Scots who wake at Inverness the morning after do not.

  • Manka's Inverness Lodge, which, sadly, burned down in 2006, was owned by chef Margaret Grade.

  • In “Inverness,” a botanist finds something like faith through an encounter with an obsessed Loch Ness Monster hunter.

  • As a center for tourists, Inverness is increasingly popular and motor cars are very common.

  • From Inverness an unsurpassed highway leads to Aberdeen, a distance of a little over one hundred miles.

  • Inverness Wood, which had been hotly disputed for the six previous weeks, was taken by the London troops.

  • His own county is not Argyleshire, but Inverness, and we did not deal much in local myth.

  • In a few minutes he overtook her, wrapped in a long Inverness cape from head to foot, and they walked on side by side.