waft 的 3 个定义
- to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water: The gentle breeze wafted the sound of music to our ears.
- to send or convey lightly, as if in flight: The actress wafted kisses to her admirers in the audience.
- Obsolete. to signal to, summon, or direct by waving.
- to float or be carried, especially through the air: The sound wafted on the breeze. The music wafted across the lake.
- a sound, odor, etc., faintly perceived: a waft of perfume.
- a wafting movement; light current or gust: a waft of air.
- the act of wafting.
- Also waif. Nautical. a signal given by waving a flag.
waft 近义词
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更多waft例句
- He caught a waft of methane and spotted a pile of corroded metal surrounding a hole that had once been an active well.
- “At least it keeps the mosquitoes away,” one of my table-mates said, as we watched the swooshes of smoke waft into the Havana sky.
- The smells waft through the shantytown of tents and tires known as the Maidan, the main square in Kiev.
- The film is an amiable but formless waft through a 1950s British film set.
- Bewitching scents waft from a stone vessel holding multicolored powders, herbs and seeds.
- It needed only an exertion of will for the soul to hurl the body ashore as wind drives paper; to waft it kite-fashion to the bank.
- It sufficed, however, to waft them into a little cove making into one of these islands at about two hours before noon.
- She had a vague feeling that the boat should have been ready to waft them miraculously over star-lit seas.
- A puff of wind brought them a waft of fainter odour from the wild violets which carpeted the woods.
- But we link our wishes with whatsoever would gently waft us over.