gnat

Word family noungnatlinggnatcatchergnatgnatwren

Related topics: Insects

gnat /næt/ noun [countableC]

HBIa small flying insect that bites 叮人小虫，蠓，蚋

Examples from the Corpus

gnat• In five hours she'd be marking Miguel O'Brien - a gnat trying to curb an elephant.• And, little by little, the utterly unprecedented thought began buzzing around my cortex, like a gnat in a jar.• Vanessa could shoot the eye out of a gnat at fifty paces.• Milk, sticky and sour on her dress, attracted every small flying thing from gnats to grasshoppers.• The last two weeks had been damp and little gnats thickened the air like a living dust.• The heat and the gnats were the next burden.• As was suggested in argument, that would indeed be to swallow the elephant and strain at the gnat.

Origin gnat

Old English gnætt

单词	gnat
释义	gnat Word family noungnatlinggnatcatchergnatgnatwren Related topics: Insects gnat /næt/ noun [countableC] HBIa small flying insect that bites 叮人小虫，蠓，蚋 Examples from the Corpus gnat• In five hours she'd be marking Miguel O'Brien - a gnat trying to curb an elephant.• And, little by little, the utterly unprecedented thought began buzzing around my cortex, like a gnat in a jar.• Vanessa could shoot the eye out of a gnat at fifty paces.• Milk, sticky and sour on her dress, attracted every small flying thing from gnats to grasshoppers.• The last two weeks had been damp and little gnats thickened the air like a living dust.• The heat and the gnats were the next burden.• As was suggested in argument, that would indeed be to swallow the elephant and strain at the gnat. Origin gnat Old English gnætt
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