Yarn
[jɑːn] or [jɑn]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
(n.) One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.
(n.) A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.
巴纳比手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Woollen thread.[2]. [Colloquial.] Story, tale.
塞西莉整理
解釋/意思:
n. spun thread: one of the threads of a rope: a sailor's story (spun out to some length) a story generally.—v.i. to tell stories.
辛迪校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of yarn, denotes success in your business and an industrious companion in your home. For a young woman to dream that she works with yarn, foretells that she will be proudly recognized by a worthy man as his wife.
整理:洛蒂
娱乐性解釋/意思：
An essential in fabrication—either woven or narrated. Mill yarns are highly colored; those spun at sea much more so.
整理:泰勒
例句/造句/用法:
- When yarn is dyed, the coloring matter penetrates to every part of the fiber, and hence the patterns formed by the weaving together of well-dyed yarns are very fast to light and water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It was this that gave his yarn the name of water-twist. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- In spinning fine numbers of yarn, a workman in a self-acting mule will do the work of 3,000 hand-spinners with the distaff and spindle. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of rope-yarn, lies perishing upon the hearth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The coarse yarn obtained from it is called coir, and it is also used for cordage. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Fancy stockings, with numerous colours blended, are so knit, and if the yarn holds out a mile of stockings may be thus knit, without a break and without an attendant. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Two men, Wyatt and Paul, of Birmingham, had earlier built a machine to spin stronger yarn than that usually used, but their machine had shown many defects, and they had abandoned its use. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Foreign materials are, upon this account, sometimes allowed to be imported duty-free; spanish wool, for example, flax, and raw linen yarn. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- When the thread yarn was drawn out sufficiently it was wound upon the spindles by a reverse movement of the wheel. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The country people about Cromford came to see Arkwright’s machines, and wonder at them, and sometimes to buy a dozen pairs of stockings that had been made of Arkwright’s yarn. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- But, though they needed his yarn, the manufacturers would not buy it from him, and he was forced to find some way of using his large output himself. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- They were then covered with hempen yarn, to protect the gutta percha from attrition, and they were thus introduced into the hollow cable, of which they formed the core. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Maybe you think I am just slinging you a yarn. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- After the yarn is finally spooled it is found that its surface is still rough and covered with fuzz. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Flying as fast as it does, when the shuttle becomes exhausted of yarn a late invention presents a new bobbin and a new supply of yarn to the shuttle without stopping the machine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- This improvement put weaving ahead of spinning, and the weavers were continually calling on the spindlers for more weft yarns. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- When yarn is dyed, the coloring matter penetrates to every part of the fiber, and hence the patterns formed by the weaving together of well-dyed yarns are very fast to light and water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The warp was made by the cloth and linen manufacturers, and the weft yarns furnished by the woman spinsters throughout the country. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Prior to the invention of the _spinning-jenny_, the loose fibre was spun into yarns and thread by hand on the old-fashioned spinning wheel, each thread requiring the attention of one person. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Formerly the bobbins on which the yarns were wound increased in speed as they were filled, thus endangering and often breaking the thread, and at all times increasing the tension. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Fellows used to try to frighten me with their yarns at sea, said Legree. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Color designs of the greatest durability are produced by the weaving together of colored yarns. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In forming a small rope, two of the yarns thus formed were twisted together in a direction opposite to that of the first twist. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The long travel of the carriage back and forth, and the simultaneous twisting and drawing of the yarns, produced threads of great fineness and regularity. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The yarns, which are wound around bobbins, are drawn from them through perforated plates, these so placed that the yarns converge together and pass into a tube. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Thus finally were means provided to supply the demand for the weft yarns. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- These are now used alike in making fine threads and yarns and in large ropes. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He was studying hard how to get up a machine to meet the weavers' demands for cotton yarns. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- As the yarns still need to be twisted, they are passed through a roving frame similar to a drawing frame. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- An ingenious device connected with the winding of the roving yarns upon bobbins may be here noted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
錄入:默多克