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单词 parings
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Definition of parings in English:

parings

plural nounˈpɛːrɪŋzˈpɛrɪŋz
  • Thin strips that have been pared off from something.

    削下的皮;削下物

    fingernail parings

    剪下的指甲。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These books don't draw much of a crowd; their readers, like avid collectors of concert bootlegs or celebrity nail parings, are mainly sworn devotees.
    • Mrs. Burns-Cooper, spurred by her mother-in-law, escalates the attack by criticizing Maud Martha's potato parings as too thick.
    • When she was young, her mother had told her to save her nail parings, otherwise she would have no means of clinging on when her time came to ‘climb the steep slopes of Mount Zion.’
    • They were accused of the most amazing offences: one woman was said to have turned her daughter into a pony, another of having made a minister ill by swinging a bag of boiled toads and nail parings over his bed.
    • In fact, I have been seriously thinking about putting out a Randi doll, complete with fingernail parings and a scrap of my beard - so that it will really work, of course!
    Synonyms
    peelings, clippings, peel, rind, cuttings, trimmings, shavings, strips, pieces, slivers, fragments, shreds

Definition of parings in US English:

parings

plural nounˈperiNGzˈpɛrɪŋz
  • Thin strips that have been pared off from something.

    削下的皮;削下物

    fingernail parings

    剪下的指甲。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They were accused of the most amazing offences: one woman was said to have turned her daughter into a pony, another of having made a minister ill by swinging a bag of boiled toads and nail parings over his bed.
    • In fact, I have been seriously thinking about putting out a Randi doll, complete with fingernail parings and a scrap of my beard - so that it will really work, of course!
    • When she was young, her mother had told her to save her nail parings, otherwise she would have no means of clinging on when her time came to ‘climb the steep slopes of Mount Zion.’
    • Mrs. Burns-Cooper, spurred by her mother-in-law, escalates the attack by criticizing Maud Martha's potato parings as too thick.
    • These books don't draw much of a crowd; their readers, like avid collectors of concert bootlegs or celebrity nail parings, are mainly sworn devotees.
    Synonyms
    peelings, clippings, peel, rind, cuttings, trimmings, shavings, strips, pieces, slivers, fragments, shreds
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