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单词 recumbent
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Definition of recumbent in English:

recumbent

adjective rɪˈkʌmb(ə)ntrəˈkəmbənt
  • 1(especially of a person or effigy) lying down.

    (尤指人或雕像)躺着的,卧姿的

    recumbent statues

    卧像。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At top center is a woman in a camisole with a thought balloon above her head depicting a recumbent figure.
    • Where there was an effigy, a recumbent figure showing the deceased dead or sleeping was most common.
    • Her snapping grey eyes softened, and she stood beside the couch silently, looking at the recumbent girl with compassion.
    • The elderly couple stared up at the towering weathered granite, a huge monolith that lay across the desert country like a recumbent lion.
    • He laughed aloud in wonder, and smiled benevolently down at the recumbent figure in his lap.
    • Confined within the window frame, this complex amalgam becomes an image of worldly flux contrasting sharply with the quiet immobility of the recumbent figure.
    • Variable quantities of gastric content normally reflux into the esophagus from time to time, more so when the stomach is filled and when the person is recumbent.
    • While the figure represented recumbent as in death was frequently used on medieval tombs, the figure propped on an elbow as in life was frequently adopted by Renaissance and Baroque artists.
    • I say this sentence to myself over and over, I visualize it, and I realize that the attraction of the image lies in the life implied by the recumbent reader.
    • Cecil walked into the clinic, where he saw Herman sitting next to a recumbent Diana.
    • The recumbent effigies of souls at rest gave way to an upright statuary of men and women reflecting on their moral duties.
    • When the patient is recumbent you should raise his head to about 45 degrees, if that is possible.
    • Most noticeably, a pair of frankly erotic paintings of recumbent female nudes crown the centre of the rooms.
    • He leans over the recumbent form of his bandmate.
    • The question was no sooner spoken than a groan came from the other side of the coffee table, echoed by the recumbent figure on the couch.
    • Rectal temperatures were obtained in recumbent patients; temperatures were recorded every two minutes until there had been no change for two minutes.
    • And then, somehow, I ended up recumbent on the bed with Rafe on top of me, my arms around his neck.
    • The recumbent figure, whose sexual ambiguity is iconographically unique, is one of several figural types conveying the myth of Hermaphroditus.
    • Neither the Greeks nor the Romans memorialized their dead in the form of full-scale recumbent effigies.
    • In several, the blonde-helmeted, recumbent figure turns as though to meet the viewer's gaze.
    Synonyms
    lying, flat, horizontal, stretched out, sprawled, spreadeagled, reclining, resting, lounging, prone, prostrate, supine
    lying down, lying flat, (flat) on one's back, on one's stomach/front, (flat) on one's face
    rare procumbent
    1. 1.1 (of a plant) growing close to the ground.
      (植物)贴地生长的,平卧的
      recumbent shrubs

      卧像。

noun rɪˈkʌmb(ə)ntrəˈkəmbənt
  • A type of bicycle designed to be ridden lying almost flat on one's back.

    背倚式自行车

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The room contains six elliptical cross-trainers, three treadmills, two recumbent bikes, two stair-steppers, a flat incline bench, rubber dumb bells, a two-tier rack and three cable televisions.
    • It includes two-wheel, three-wheel and four-wheel recumbents - bikes with reclining seats and shoulder-height handlebars - plus examples of racing machines dating through from the 1920s to the 1960s.
    • To protect yourself, look for bikes with wider, flatter seats - or use a recumbent bike.
    • I am no recumbent rider, but this is no ordinary recumbent.
    • I tried both two-wheeled and three-wheeled recumbents, and vastly preferred the trikes.
    • The ‘F-Range’ as the company calls it consists of five pieces: stepper, upright cycle, recumbent cycle, treadmill and elliptical trainer.
    • For instance, use a recumbent bike with low resistance but high RPMs rather than trying to dash miles and miles through city streets.
    • On a recumbent bike, you've got a nice comfy seat with back support, and you're pushing horizontally.
    • Whether it's a recreational, road, mountain, tandem or recumbent bike you're after, you'll find a stellar product that won't require a roof rack.
    • The extensive array of cardio equipment includes treadmills, total-body elliptical cross-trainers, upright and recumbent Lifecycle exercise bikes and stairclimbers.
    • I wish to speak briefly about the provision for licensing small motorised personal transport devices - namely, mopeds, scooters, skateboards, recumbents, etc.
    • His only options are to sit on the rear rack, as if he were on a recumbent, or to pedal standing up.
    • It's a recumbent bike, the kind you sit on like you sit on a lounge chair, and as I'm riding I'm listening to music through my headphones.
    • As long as you get your heart rate into the aerobic zone, you'll burn plenty of calories and boost your cardio fitness on the recumbent.
    • The couple, who are travelling on a tandem recumbent tricycle worth almost $10,000, are at the half-way mark of their journey which started at Queensland's Big Pineapple.
    • First, I spend more time at the YMCA pedalling a stationery recumbent bike and watching the television breakfast news.
    • Most don't even realize the recumbent bike was invented in the early 1900s.
    • ‘The whole point of the recumbent bike is to make you feel comfortable,’ Seabourne says, ‘so hopefully you can last longer and push harder.’
    • Treadmills, stationary bikes, recumbent bikes, stair steppers and elliptical machines: With all the choices of modern cardio equipment, you have to wonder which is the best fat burner.
    • Cross-train with the elliptical trainer and recumbent bike, both of which get a thumbs-up for working the entire leg musculature.
    • Models ranged from fold-up commuter bikes to electrically assisted bikes, from the family-sized four-seater ZEM bike to the Radius recumbent bike, where the cyclist lies back to pedal.
    • The best thing you could do for yourself would be to find a gym with the recumbent cycle machines.
    • In addition, she changed the exercise equipment in the club bringing in treadmills, recumbent bikes and ellipticals that were more comfortable for the women, most of whom were new to exercising.
    • Our bikes put us in a prime position to fall on our shoulders (as recumbent riders never tire of pointing out).
    • Gamboa recommends the recumbent bike for absolute beginners, while more seasoned athletes can use the machine of their choice.
    • Paul Abel, who tried out a recumbent tandem tricycle with one of his sons, said: ‘It's been great fun to try out the bikes.’

Derivatives

  • recumbency

  • noun rɪˈkʌmb(ə)nsirəˈkəmb(ə)nsi
    • The pain is exacerbated by inspiration or recumbency and relieved to some extent by leaning forward.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A period of post-procedure recumbency is needed to avoid disruption of the arterial puncture site.
      • Spells are brief in duration with prompt recovery on recumbency.
      • These symptoms may be exacerbated by recumbency or bending, and relieved by antacids.
      • The main clinical signs were depression, inappetence, huddling together, ataxia and recumbency.
  • recumbently

  • adverb

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin recumbent- 'reclining', from the verb recumbere, from re- 'back' + a verb related to cubare 'to lie'.

Rhymes

incumbent

Definition of recumbent in US English:

recumbent

adjectiverəˈkəmbəntrəˈkəmbənt
  • 1(especially of a person or human figure) lying down.

    (尤指人或雕像)躺着的,卧姿的

    recumbent statues

    卧像。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When the patient is recumbent you should raise his head to about 45 degrees, if that is possible.
    • Confined within the window frame, this complex amalgam becomes an image of worldly flux contrasting sharply with the quiet immobility of the recumbent figure.
    • Rectal temperatures were obtained in recumbent patients; temperatures were recorded every two minutes until there had been no change for two minutes.
    • Neither the Greeks nor the Romans memorialized their dead in the form of full-scale recumbent effigies.
    • He laughed aloud in wonder, and smiled benevolently down at the recumbent figure in his lap.
    • Most noticeably, a pair of frankly erotic paintings of recumbent female nudes crown the centre of the rooms.
    • Her snapping grey eyes softened, and she stood beside the couch silently, looking at the recumbent girl with compassion.
    • At top center is a woman in a camisole with a thought balloon above her head depicting a recumbent figure.
    • And then, somehow, I ended up recumbent on the bed with Rafe on top of me, my arms around his neck.
    • The recumbent figure, whose sexual ambiguity is iconographically unique, is one of several figural types conveying the myth of Hermaphroditus.
    • The recumbent effigies of souls at rest gave way to an upright statuary of men and women reflecting on their moral duties.
    • While the figure represented recumbent as in death was frequently used on medieval tombs, the figure propped on an elbow as in life was frequently adopted by Renaissance and Baroque artists.
    • The question was no sooner spoken than a groan came from the other side of the coffee table, echoed by the recumbent figure on the couch.
    • Variable quantities of gastric content normally reflux into the esophagus from time to time, more so when the stomach is filled and when the person is recumbent.
    • He leans over the recumbent form of his bandmate.
    • In several, the blonde-helmeted, recumbent figure turns as though to meet the viewer's gaze.
    • The elderly couple stared up at the towering weathered granite, a huge monolith that lay across the desert country like a recumbent lion.
    • Cecil walked into the clinic, where he saw Herman sitting next to a recumbent Diana.
    • Where there was an effigy, a recumbent figure showing the deceased dead or sleeping was most common.
    • I say this sentence to myself over and over, I visualize it, and I realize that the attraction of the image lies in the life implied by the recumbent reader.
    Synonyms
    lying, flat, horizontal, stretched out, sprawled, spreadeagled, reclining, resting, lounging, prone, prostrate, supine
    1. 1.1 (of a bicycle) designed to be ridden lying almost flat on one's back or sitting up with the legs stretched out in front.
      背倚式自行车
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The best thing you could do for yourself would be to find a gym with the recumbent cycle machines.
      • Models ranged from fold-up commuter bikes to electrically assisted bikes, from the family-sized four-seater ZEM bike to the Radius recumbent bike, where the cyclist lies back to pedal.
      • Treadmills, stationary bikes, recumbent bikes, stair steppers and elliptical machines: With all the choices of modern cardio equipment, you have to wonder which is the best fat burner.
      • First, I spend more time at the YMCA pedalling a stationery recumbent bike and watching the television breakfast news.
      • Paul Abel, who tried out a recumbent tandem tricycle with one of his sons, said: ‘It's been great fun to try out the bikes.’
      • The couple, who are travelling on a tandem recumbent tricycle worth almost $10,000, are at the half-way mark of their journey which started at Queensland's Big Pineapple.
      • On a recumbent bike, you've got a nice comfy seat with back support, and you're pushing horizontally.
      • Cross-train with the elliptical trainer and recumbent bike, both of which get a thumbs-up for working the entire leg musculature.
      • Gamboa recommends the recumbent bike for absolute beginners, while more seasoned athletes can use the machine of their choice.
      • It's a recumbent bike, the kind you sit on like you sit on a lounge chair, and as I'm riding I'm listening to music through my headphones.
      • To protect yourself, look for bikes with wider, flatter seats - or use a recumbent bike.
      • The extensive array of cardio equipment includes treadmills, total-body elliptical cross-trainers, upright and recumbent Lifecycle exercise bikes and stairclimbers.
      • The room contains six elliptical cross-trainers, three treadmills, two recumbent bikes, two stair-steppers, a flat incline bench, rubber dumb bells, a two-tier rack and three cable televisions.
      • For instance, use a recumbent bike with low resistance but high RPMs rather than trying to dash miles and miles through city streets.
      • Most don't even realize the recumbent bike was invented in the early 1900s.
      • Whether it's a recreational, road, mountain, tandem or recumbent bike you're after, you'll find a stellar product that won't require a roof rack.
      • The ‘F-Range’ as the company calls it consists of five pieces: stepper, upright cycle, recumbent cycle, treadmill and elliptical trainer.
      • Our bikes put us in a prime position to fall on our shoulders (as recumbent riders never tire of pointing out).
      • ‘The whole point of the recumbent bike is to make you feel comfortable,’ Seabourne says, ‘so hopefully you can last longer and push harder.’
      • In addition, she changed the exercise equipment in the club bringing in treadmills, recumbent bikes and ellipticals that were more comfortable for the women, most of whom were new to exercising.
    2. 1.2 (of a plant) growing close to the ground.
      (植物)贴地生长的,平卧的
      recumbent shrubs

      卧像。

nounrəˈkəmbəntrəˈkəmbənt
  • A recumbent bicycle.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In addition, she changed the exercise equipment in the club bringing in treadmills, recumbent bikes and ellipticals that were more comfortable for the women, most of whom were new to exercising.
    • The ‘F-Range’ as the company calls it consists of five pieces: stepper, upright cycle, recumbent cycle, treadmill and elliptical trainer.
    • Whether it's a recreational, road, mountain, tandem or recumbent bike you're after, you'll find a stellar product that won't require a roof rack.
    • Our bikes put us in a prime position to fall on our shoulders (as recumbent riders never tire of pointing out).
    • As long as you get your heart rate into the aerobic zone, you'll burn plenty of calories and boost your cardio fitness on the recumbent.
    • The room contains six elliptical cross-trainers, three treadmills, two recumbent bikes, two stair-steppers, a flat incline bench, rubber dumb bells, a two-tier rack and three cable televisions.
    • Gamboa recommends the recumbent bike for absolute beginners, while more seasoned athletes can use the machine of their choice.
    • ‘The whole point of the recumbent bike is to make you feel comfortable,’ Seabourne says, ‘so hopefully you can last longer and push harder.’
    • For instance, use a recumbent bike with low resistance but high RPMs rather than trying to dash miles and miles through city streets.
    • To protect yourself, look for bikes with wider, flatter seats - or use a recumbent bike.
    • I am no recumbent rider, but this is no ordinary recumbent.
    • On a recumbent bike, you've got a nice comfy seat with back support, and you're pushing horizontally.
    • The couple, who are travelling on a tandem recumbent tricycle worth almost $10,000, are at the half-way mark of their journey which started at Queensland's Big Pineapple.
    • Treadmills, stationary bikes, recumbent bikes, stair steppers and elliptical machines: With all the choices of modern cardio equipment, you have to wonder which is the best fat burner.
    • I wish to speak briefly about the provision for licensing small motorised personal transport devices - namely, mopeds, scooters, skateboards, recumbents, etc.
    • It includes two-wheel, three-wheel and four-wheel recumbents - bikes with reclining seats and shoulder-height handlebars - plus examples of racing machines dating through from the 1920s to the 1960s.
    • It's a recumbent bike, the kind you sit on like you sit on a lounge chair, and as I'm riding I'm listening to music through my headphones.
    • The best thing you could do for yourself would be to find a gym with the recumbent cycle machines.
    • His only options are to sit on the rear rack, as if he were on a recumbent, or to pedal standing up.
    • Cross-train with the elliptical trainer and recumbent bike, both of which get a thumbs-up for working the entire leg musculature.
    • Models ranged from fold-up commuter bikes to electrically assisted bikes, from the family-sized four-seater ZEM bike to the Radius recumbent bike, where the cyclist lies back to pedal.
    • I tried both two-wheeled and three-wheeled recumbents, and vastly preferred the trikes.
    • Most don't even realize the recumbent bike was invented in the early 1900s.
    • First, I spend more time at the YMCA pedalling a stationery recumbent bike and watching the television breakfast news.
    • Paul Abel, who tried out a recumbent tandem tricycle with one of his sons, said: ‘It's been great fun to try out the bikes.’
    • The extensive array of cardio equipment includes treadmills, total-body elliptical cross-trainers, upright and recumbent Lifecycle exercise bikes and stairclimbers.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin recumbent- ‘reclining’, from the verb recumbere, from re- ‘back’ + a verb related to cubare ‘to lie’.

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