tuft
丛生,丛书,丛丛,簇拥
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Definitions
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- : a bunch or cluster of small, usually soft and flexible parts, as feathers or hairs, attached or fixed closely together at the base and loose at the upper ends.
- : a cluster of short, fluffy threads, used to decorate cloth, as for a bedspread, robe, bath mat, or window curtain.
- : a cluster of cut threads, used as a decorative finish attached to the tying or holding threads of mattresses, quilts, upholstery, etc.
- : a covered or finished button designed for similar use.
- : a cluster of short-stalked flowers, leaves, etc., growing from a common point.
- : a small clump of bushes, trees, etc.
- : a gold tassel on the cap formerly worn at English universities by titled undergraduates.
- : a titled undergraduate at an English university.
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- : to furnish or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
- : to arrange in a tuft or tufts.
- : Upholstery. to draw together by passing a thread through at regular intervals, the depressions thus produced being usually ornamented with tufts or buttons.
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- : to form into or grow in a tuft or tufts.
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Examples
The violence in Levenson’s tidy glass pieces, which also contain razor blades and tufts of sharp wire, is latent.
Walking with snowshoes on tufts of powder subtly alters your gait while adding new weight to each step, which makes for a grueling lower body workout.
Grab a tuft of green needles, rip or chop them into small pieces, and drop them into some very hot water.
Al Pacino comes dressed in black and gray, wearing multiple bracelets and an unkempt tuft of hair poking up from his scalp.
He thrust his tiny tuft of beard between his teeth—a trick he had when perplexed or thoughtful.
She has a grey body, plump as a sack of meal, with little white speckles, a funny neck and such a small head with a tuft on top.
In this way it could be made to smoke, and finally set fire to a tuft of dried moss, from which he might get a flame for cooking.
With the soft tuft of camel hair he blurred against the peak pale, luminous vapor of new cloud.
The tail is on a level with the back, and gracefully tapers like a drum-stick, to the tuft on the end.