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 elbow ['elbәu]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 手肘, 弯头, 扶手

vt. 用手肘推开, 推挤

vi. 用手肘推开, 推挤

[化] 弯头; 弯管

[医] 肘


  1. He elbowed his way through the crowd.
    他在人群中挤出一条路。
  2. You jogged my elbow and spoiled what I was drawing.
    你撞到了我的手肘,弄坏了我正在画的图画。
  3. He barked his elbow on the wall.
    他碰到墙上,肘部擦破了皮。


elbow
[ noun ]
  1. hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped

  2. <noun.body>
  3. a sharp bend in a road or river

  4. <noun.artifact>
  5. a length of pipe with a sharp bend in it

  6. <noun.artifact>
  7. the part of a sleeve that covers the elbow joint

  8. <noun.artifact>
    his coat had patches over the elbows
  9. the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow

  10. <noun.animal>
[ verb ]
  1. push one's way with the elbows

  2. <verb.motion>
  3. shove one's elbow into another person's ribs

  4. <verb.contact>


Elbow \El"bow\, n. [AS. elboga, elnboga (akin to D. elleboga,
OHG. elinbogo, G. ellbogen, ellenbogen, Icel. ?lnbogi; prop.;
arm-bend); eln ell (orig., forearm) + boga a bending. See 1st
{Ell}, and 4th {Bow}.]
1. The joint or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the
middle of the arm when bent.

Her arms to the elbows naked. --R. of
Gloucester.

2. Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall,
building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast
or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of
any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a
short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.

3. (Arch.) A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or
other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled
work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an
elbow with the window back. --Gwilt.

Note: Elbow is used adjectively or as part of a compound, to
denote something shaped like, or acting like, an elbow;
as, elbow joint; elbow tongs or elbow-tongs; elbowroom,
elbow-room, or elbow room.

{At the elbow}, very near; at hand.

{Elbow grease}, energetic application of force in manual
labor. [Low]

{Elbow in the hawse} (Naut.), the twisting together of two
cables by which a vessel rides at anchor, caused by
swinging completely round once. --Totten.

{Elbow scissors} (Surg.), scissors bent in the blade or shank
for convenience in cutting. --Knight.

{Out at elbow}, with coat worn through at the elbows; shabby;
in needy circumstances.


Elbow \El"bow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elbowed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Elbowing}.]
To push or hit with the elbow, as when one pushes by another.

They [the Dutch] would elbow our own aldermen off the
Royal Exchange. --Macaulay.

{To elbow one's way}, to force one's way by pushing with the
elbows; as, to elbow one's way through a crowd.


Elbow \El"bow\, v. i.
1. To jut into an angle; to project or to bend after the
manner of an elbow.

2. To push rudely along; to elbow one's way. ``Purseproud,
elbowing Insolence.'' --Grainger.

Crossette \Cros*sette"\ (kr?s-s?t`), n. [F., dim. of crosse. See
{Crosier}.] (Arch.)
(a) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a
door or window; -- called also {ancon}, {ear}, {elbow}.
(b) The shoulder of a joggled keystone.

  1. One of the men opened fire with a sawed-off shotgun, hitting Kashim in the elbow and abdomen.
  2. "We are fish people," says the veteran on the line as she recalls how she and her mother worked together "elbow to elbow, side by side."
  3. "We are fish people," says the veteran on the line as she recalls how she and her mother worked together "elbow to elbow, side by side."
  4. The record company said Farriss had been suffering from arthritis in his elbow for several months.
  5. Hill later said that he'd been hampered by a hyperextended right elbow suffered in the third round.
  6. Wearing thick knee and elbow pads, they pick bugs by the hundreds off weeds.
  7. One of the church members told him to clean up and put on a tie. He was taken by the elbow and escorted out of the church.
  8. And most important of all, the Americans, just because they upheld that wide-ranging decentralization of power, gave free scope and elbow room to free decision making and creativity.
  9. One officer, Chief Deputy Charles Lawson, suffered a gunshot wound above the elbow, and the shot broke his arm.
  10. Yule Flogged At shopping malls we elbow through, Which tends to make me surly; I want to bop those smirking guys Who did their shopping early.
  11. "I had no choice but to let go," ending up with a bruised elbow, black and blue hip and a `little finger that blew up like a balloon." Two children surveyed by the doctors had teeth knocked out by wayward ropes.
  12. Constable Andre Blanchette, a provincial police spokesman, said the two women reported that one of the convicts was shot in the elbow and another in the shoulder.
  13. He props himself up on an elbow.
  14. Harasek, who was hospitalized in fair condition with a fractured left elbow, has refused to answer investigators' questions on the advice of his attorney, Doneske said.
  15. This would give the parties time to reorganise, and permit Mr Ciampi sufficient elbow room to get privatisation on course and ensure the public sector deficit is being tackled in earnest.
  16. Harasek, 59, was hospitalized in fair condition with a fractured elbow.
  17. But it shrinks in the privacy and unlimited elbow room of a race track on which a handful of cars are all going the same way.
  18. Laclair, 36 and a 10-year veteran, was shot in the face and left elbow as he approached a car on a busy county highway shortly after midnight Thursday, Bell said.
  19. Marks will make eight or 10 kinds of cookies this year, including ginger pecan slices, chocolate orange chunk cookies and lemon drops, carrying on a tradition learned at the elbow of her mother and other relatives.
  20. Wunderlich told authorities he ejected a Pistons player for throwing an elbow at another player and was hit by a teammate from behind.
  21. Republicans say he can, although they concede it will take a lot of elbow grease.
  22. One bullet pierced Earnestine Shirley's elbow and another struck Bridgett.
  23. I don't know if it was the belt or my elbow," Ms. Esker said.
  24. Ann Landers' column published a letter Tuesday from a reader complaining about video camera enthusiasts who elbow their way to the best seats at public events.
  25. At Tripoli's "souk," or traditional outdoor market, they elbow for space to hawk their wares in streets that were virtually empty of shoppers a year ago.
  26. Later, addressing a Republican National Committee luncheon, Bush said he was giving his wife Barbara "a little elbow room" as she was in the throes of moving out of the residence.
  27. Her 70-year-old son carried her to the ballot box, but on the way he slipped and Mrs. Davi fell to the ground, skinning her elbow.
  28. After a string of assignments at Texaco, Mr. Boies has become the ultimate $300-an-hour insider, constantly at the elbow of Chief Executive James Kinnear.
  29. The fourth passenger, a 64-year-old woman, was in good condition today at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, suffering from trauma and knee and elbow injuries, said hospital spokeswoman Carol Jonson.
  30. Shaw, 44, who lost his sight to degenerative eye disease several years ago, fell from a subway platform into a train's path on Feb. 27. Surgeons were unable to reattach his left arm, which was nearly severed at the elbow.
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