reef

reef¹[ri:f]

• n.
  • 礁；暗礁；[比喻]危险的障碍
  • 【采矿】矿脉
• 近义词:

  shoal

reef²[ri:f]

• n.
  • 【航海学】
  • 帆的可卷叠部分
  • 收帆，缩帆
• vt.
  • 收帆，缩帆
  • 降低桅杆(或帆桁等)
  • 把(伞)收拢(常与in连用)：

    to reef in one's umbrella

    把撑开的雨伞收拢

  • [俚语](为行窃)掏(口袋)
• 短语:
  • let out a reef
    • 【航海学】展帆，解开卷帆带
    • [俚语](饭后)放松腰带(或解开纽扣)
  • reef it off in lumps [俚语]敲诈大笔钱财
  • take in a reef
    • 收帆，收缩帆篷
    • 谨慎小心行事

• signalling rate
• lean as a rake
• damfool
• work to grade
• puzzle one's brain wits
• air raid
• canonicities
• JWV
• within prospect
• Okeechobee Lake
• positive supercoiling
• atlantic oceans
• urostyle
• tiresiass
• cut sth↔off
• underwhelms
• Talbot,William Henry Fox
• slivovitz
• dribbers
• order sb about/around
• Cayuga Lake
• on the chance of
• rural radio service
• dibutyl tartrate
• false colours
• sinful
• santana
• double-figure
• negative equity
• butyrophenone
• confiscation
• tanbark oak
• Puebla
• subrounded
• Arapaho
• garden cities
• netkeepers
• in parvo
• pyromagnetic
• fistiana
• Lepsius, Karl Richard
• organic lattice
• victimologist
• Faraday cages
• Keller, Gottfried
• saxifragaceous
• shikimic acid
• Mexican brown
• ultraviolet spectrometer
• triangulation
• respellings
• glucose
• venture capitalist
• dorsaanterior
• wall paintings
• visible bearing
• express appointment
• working model
• sympathy strikes
• Aspidocotylea
• mark something with a white stone
• proton-electron-proton reaction
• swiftlet
• develop by
• waistbelts
• through the length and breadth of
• zugzwang
• deities
• elsies
• salvors
• scratch about
• tattooed
• syntonizing
• demythify
• rodomontader
• acetyl number
• have the world at one’s feet
• diamine oxidase
• libertyman
• factory price
• choral service
• descending colons
• in spite of oneself
• deadman's brake
• rechargeable
• perditions
• passion weeks
• deliberateness
• one and the same
• cloud cover
• hornful
• handclaps
• do sb good
• square deal
• ingemination
• plate glasses
• Annandale
• lookdowns
• teething
• damp down