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peephole

/peep-hohl/US // ˈpipˌhoʊl //UK // (ˈpiːpˌhəʊl) //

窥视孔,监视孔,窥视镜,窥视眼

Related Words

slot槽,插槽,档期,槽位opening开场,开幕,开放,开幕式crevice缝隙,裂缝,隙缝,裂隙slit裂缝,狭缝,切口,缝隙eyehole眼孔,眼洞,眼孔中,眼孔中的eyelet眼线,眼罩,眼孔,眼球

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small hole or opening through which to peep or look, as in a door.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounhole to look through
Synonyms
crevice缝隙,裂缝,隙缝,裂隙eyehole眼孔,眼洞,眼孔中,眼孔中的eyelet眼线,眼罩,眼孔,眼球opening开场,开幕,开放,开幕式slit裂缝,狭缝,切口,缝隙slot槽,插槽,档期,槽位

Examples

  • The officers covered the peephole so that their faces would be obscured, and Taravati opened the door.

  • What you get at the end is a peephole for a private moment that rapidly becomes very voyeuristic.

  • Jess peered through the peephole in the curtain and saw that the hall was crowded.

  • The long war-arrow, weighted with a blazing mass of pitch-smeared 211 moss, stuck in a log a few inches below my peephole.

  • I watched him, gentlemen, watched him through a peephole cut in the wall of his cabin, which is next the pantry.

  • Through that peephole he saw something that almost turned him livid, rooted him to the spot, and for a moment held him helpless.

  • The curtain was cracked through in places and had a peephole in the middle, with black smudges round it like a bruised eye.

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