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yarn

/yahrn/US // yɑrn //UK // (jɑːn) //

纱线,纱布,纱,纺纱

Related Words

fleece羊毛衫,羊毛,羊毛毡,羊毛制品wool羊毛,羊毛毡,羊毛衫,毛线thread航线,航线的问题tale故事,岈,岈语anecdote趣闻轶事,轶事,轶闻趣事,趣闻趣事twist扭转,扭曲,缠绕,扭曲了lie谎言,撒谎,骗人,谎话string绳子,弦,绳索,线绳alibi不在场证明,别名,托辞,不在场证据song歌曲fable寓言故事,寓言,寓意,寓言式的adventure冒险,探险,历险,冒险之旅narrative叙述,叙事,叙述性,叙述性的prose散文,散文集,序言,散文集锦line线,行,路线,线条fabrication制造,制作,加工,虚构potboiler煲仔饭,锅碗瓢盆,煲仔戏,锅盖头fairy tale童话故事,神话故事,童话,童话般的故事song and dance歌舞,歌舞表演,歌舞升平,歌舞团tall tale荒唐故事,荒诞故事,大话西游,荒诞的故事

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
    • : a continuous strand or thread made from glass, metal, plastic, etc.
    • : the thread, in the form of a loosely twisted aggregate of fibers, as of hemp, of which rope is made .
    • : a tale, especially a long story of adventure or incredible happenings: He spun a yarn that outdid any I had ever heard.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Informal. to spin a yarn; tell stories.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounfiber for knitting
Synonyms
fleece羊毛衫,羊毛,羊毛毡,羊毛制品thread航线,航线的问题wool羊毛,羊毛毡,羊毛衫,毛线twist扭转,扭曲,缠绕,扭曲了cotton fiber棉纤维,棉花纤维,棉质纤维,棉纱纤维flaxen thread亚麻线,亚麻纱线,亚麻色的线,亚麻色线spun wool纺纱羊毛,纺毛,纺纱毛线,纺毛线
nounstory, often long and made-up
Synonyms
anecdote趣闻轶事,轶事,轶闻趣事,趣闻趣事tale故事,岈,岈语adventure冒险,探险,历险,冒险之旅alibi不在场证明,别名,托辞,不在场证据fable寓言故事,寓言,寓意,寓言式的fabrication制造,制作,加工,虚构lie谎言,撒谎,骗人,谎话line线,行,路线,线条narrative叙述,叙事,叙述性,叙述性的potboiler煲仔饭,锅碗瓢盆,煲仔戏,锅盖头prose散文,散文集,序言,散文集锦song歌曲string绳子,弦,绳索,线绳fairy tale童话故事,神话故事,童话,童话般的故事sea story海上故事,海的故事,海洋故事,海上的故事song and dance歌舞,歌舞表演,歌舞升平,歌舞团tall story高大的故事,高大上的故事,高个子故事,高篇小说tall tale荒唐故事,荒诞故事,大话西游,荒诞的故事

Examples

  • Schlacter’s installation, titled “Darn” is crafted from yarn, paper mâché sculptures, and hand-made, wall-mounted loom structures.

  • Marikar’s is a good yarn about a company that is doing well by trying to do good.

  • They come in two versions, a liquid silicone rubber that looks a lot like Apple’s original Sport Band and a braided version made from recycled yarn that truly sparkles.

  • Christopher Plummer hopes audiences will enjoy watching a “good yarn” when his new series Departure debuts on Peacock Thursday.

  • Meanwhile, 40 miles south of Conover, in the town of Belmont, the Textile Technology Center at Gaston College specializes in what the industry refers to as “yarn.”

  • To that regard, Mulaney opens with its star spinning a longer joke-yarn based on something that had really happened to him.

  • Many of us strike a happy medium, leaving enough wiggle room with reality to spin a good yarn.

  • But at least according to its creator, it's also a meta-page-turning crime yarn—a story about storytelling.

  • Perhaps that's why Goldfarb didn't comment any further on his yarn.

  • I got a bit of flak for interviewing Kelley, though the story was widely picked up: why dive into this tabloid yarn?

  • I didn't take much stock in the yarn at the time, but I'm beginning to think he had it straight.

  • Without embarking on another endless yarn let me note the fact that there are two schools amongst our brethren afloat.

  • You can probably realize just how headquarters would take the sort of yarn we'd spin if we dashed in and told them the truth.

  • Before that time we always put rope-yarn between the lap of the boiler-plates to make the seams tight.

  • He said, 'Now you shall never make another boiler for me with rope-yarn.'

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