tucking [机] 手工造模
Tuck \Tuck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tucked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tucking}.] [OE. tukken, LG. tukken to pull up, tuck up,
entice; akin to OD. tocken to entice, G. zucken to draw with
a short and quick motion, and E. tug. See {Tug}.]
1. To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a
narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck
up one's sleeves.
2. To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress.
3. To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place;
as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's
arm, or into a pocket.
4. [Perhaps originally, to strike, beat: cf. F. toquer to
touch. Cf. {Tocsin}.] To full, as cloth. [Prov. Eng.]
- And he has trouble with basic office etiquette, such as tucking in his shirt or coming to meetings on time.
- While tucking you into bed and attaching a dripfeed, she ringingly insists that she is your 'number one fan'.
- This phantasm was tucking into a tutti frutti ice-cream opposite the Minerva temple in Assisi. I nudged my brother-in-law.
- Richard Chamberlain dresses as a "Mainland haole," tucking in a Hawaiian shirt and rolling up its long sleeves.
- There isn't even a working translation for appellation controlee. These thoughts occurred to me as I was tucking into some of the best lamb I had ever tasted.