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nounɡɪlɡɪl 1The paired respiratory organ of fish and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx. 鳃（鱼和一些两栖动物的呼吸器官） Example sentencesExamples - Otherwise they have to keep swimming to force oxygenated water past their gills.
- Fish are subject to a variety of maladies, such as grubs or worms, which may be found in or on the skin, attached to gills, or embedded in the flesh.
- In fishes there is equivalent ‘ventilation’ of the gills with water.
- It takes several weeks after hatching to form and until then they are dependent on water absorbed through the gills, the same as any other fish.
- At fish-cleaning stations, cleaner fish nibble the parasites from the gills and mouths of fishes much larger than they are.
- White-tailed eagles, which inhabit the same territory, may struggle for hours merely to pry an opening around a fish's gills or front fin.
- Some others, like the Siamese fighting fish, are capable of breathing air in addition to extracting oxygen from the water with their gills.
- Barracuda often pump their jaws in order to move water past their gills.
- Fish, for example, pump water across their gills with their head muscles.
- These fish do not have gills or opercula (gill coverings) like most bony fishes.
- To make matters worse, fish have large respiratory membranes, the gills, which expose a huge amount of surface area to the watery medium.
- When you see an aquarium fish gulping water, or ‘making a gookie,’ you will also see the gill cover opening and the gills fluttering, as water is drawn over the gills and the fish breathes.
- Apparently squirting fresh water into the gills gets them off.
- In fish, the branchial apparatus forms a system of gills for exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and the water.
- Fish with torn gills die as inevitably as you would if your lungs were shredded.
- In any fish, when blood cycles through the gills to receive oxygen, it also cools to the temperature of the surrounding water.
- Cold, foamy water hushed over the rocks, and the gills of the fishes that swam in it caressed the rocks.
- In fishes and some amphibians, the slits bear gills and are used for gas exchange.
- Fish start to suffocate out of water and their gills may collapse and bleed.
- When in the water, they breathe with their gills as most fish do.
- 1.1 An organ in an invertebrate animal with a similar function to gills in fish and amphibians.
Example sentencesExamples - In addition to two eyes and a mouth, this animal has markings suggesting gills.
- In some forms the gills were able to remain moist and so allow the animal to move about on land for short periods.
- Notice the three large gills that the animal uses to ‘breathe’ in its underwater environment.
- They depend on this to acquire dissolved nutrients from the surrounding water, in much the same way that animals use the large surface area of their gills in order to obtain oxygen.
2The vertical plates arranged radially on the underside of mushrooms and many toadstools. （蘑菇和多种伞菌的）菌褶 Example sentencesExamples - Look for the white cap, stout white stem which detaches easily from the cap, and the pink gills, which turn brown as the mushroom matures.
- An agaric, such as the common field mushroom, has gills in the form of fine, radiating ‘plates’.
- He squatted next to her and ran his fingers gently along the gills of one of the large mushrooms.
- They are quite unlike the radiating ribs of ordinary mushrooms, but serve the same function, i.e. they constitute the gills on which the spores are carried.
- Agaricus indicates a mushroom with gills, and bisporus refers to this variety's self-sufficiently needing no second mushroom to make little mushrooms.
3The wattles or dewlap of a domestic fowl. （家禽）下腭垂肉
verbɡɪlɡɪl [with object]1Gut or clean (a fish). 取出（鱼的内脏）；洗（鱼） Example sentencesExamples - Immediately after this, gut and gill all fish you wish to eat.
- A small whole bass of anything up to about four pounds gets scaled when caught, gilled and gutted.
- In an attempt to sell it all, he would visit motor camps, his car towing a trailer loaded with iced, gilled and gutted fish and him shouting, ‘fresh snapper for sale!’
- Before they put fillet knives in front of American anglers, most of us gutted, gilled and scaled all of our fish.
- Invaluable for tailing, gilling and holding strange fish.
2Catch (a fish) in a gill net. 用刺网捕（鱼）
Phrasesgreen about (or around or at) the gills (of a person) looking or feeling ill or nauseous. Example sentencesExamples - And with her has come the group of Hull youngsters who enjoyed the adventure of a lifetime on the authentic tall ship - green around the gills but smiling broadly.
- I will come out probably green about the gills and may even be sick.
- Indeed when Alex got back from the morgue he was looking distinctly pale and green around the gills.
- He bumbled around working out what he needed, so green around the gills, that one had to laugh.
- Now I don't particularly remember the end result of this smoking session, but looking back on it now, I can't help thinking they must have felt slightly green around the gills.
- Everyone was a bit green around the gills by the end.
- A couple of the lads were looking decidedly green around the gills, some didn't complete the challenge and scored minus points.
- Debbie turned green around the gills when she was mucking out the pigs.
- I was quite lucky in that I was timetabled to do my driving test first, whereas other applicants - all looking decidedly green at the gills - had to wait all morning.
- You've been looking a bit green around the gills lately.
Synonyms pale, pasty-faced, pasty, wan, drained, washed out, drawn, pallid, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, whey-faced, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, grey, pinched, sickly, sallow, as white as a ghost, as white as a sheet, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, ill-looking, sickly-looking
Example sentencesExamples - At half past one on a weekday the restaurant was less than half full, and still staffed to the gills.
- The room was stuffed to the gills with trophies and plaques and mementos of the greatest baseball team that ever existed.
- The town is full to the gills, but we're coping and everybody's having a great time.
- But they are stuffed to the gills with dollars.
- The city is packed to the gills during this period, so if you would prefer to see Edinburgh under more normal circumstances, avoid this three-week period.
- Bigger and better than ever before, the programme is packed to the gills with theatre, music and various street entertainment events.
- The second advert was stuffed to the gills with jargon sentences.
- The place is packed to the gills; standing room only.
- This shop is only 10 or 15 feet wide and packed to the gills with old & new clothes, mostly geared to the retired crowd.
- Usually those shelters would be packed to the gills.
Derivativesadjective in combination a six-gilled shark
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse. noundʒɪldʒɪl A unit of liquid measure, equal to a quarter of a pint. 吉耳（液量单位，等于1/4品脱） Example sentencesExamples - The sets of weights were once the work tools of the county's pound police where they were used to measure the pounds, ounces, quarters and gills of an untold number of items.
- A tot is a sixth, a fifth, a quarter or a third of a gill of whisky.
- Rustic enough that the notice over the bar still claimed to serve spirits in measures of 1/6 gill.
- At school we had a free gill of milk each morning break as part of the government's plan to build a nation of healthy young things.
- Her cheese pudding has an ounce and a half of breadcrumbs, an ounce of cheese, one gill of milk and half an egg.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French gille 'measure or container for wine', from late Latin gillo 'water pot'. nounɡɪlɡɪl Northern English 1A deep ravine, especially a wooded one. （尤指森林茂密的）峡谷 Example sentencesExamples - From the early 10th cent. there was considerable Norse settlement, from Ireland and the Isle of Man, leaving evidence in words like fell, ghyll, tarn, and how.
- A man who failed to return home from a walk in the Helvellyn area spent the night under a bush in a ghyll as 32 rescuers from three areas searched the entire range for him.
- After sampling the cheese, walk to the neighbouring village of Hardraw, which is Old English for ‘shepherd's dwelling ’, and view Hardraw Force where Hearne Beck plunges nearly 100 ft into the deep ghyll below.
2A narrow mountain stream. 涧流 Example sentencesExamples - It's lovely, you sort of follow a gill that has alders like the River Cover, but almost different trees, small and gnarled and ancient looking.
Synonyms stream, small river, streamlet, rivulet, rill, brooklet, runnel, runlet, freshet
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse gil 'deep glen'. The spelling ghyll was introduced by Wordsworth. noundʒɪlɡɪl 1A female ferret. 母雪貂。比较 HOB2 （义项1） Compare with hob (sense 1) Example sentencesExamples - A female ferret is called a jill while a male is called a hob.
2derogatory A young woman. 〈贬〉年轻女子
OriginLate Middle English: abbreviation of the given name Gillian. nounɡilɡɪl 1The paired respiratory organ of fishes and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx. 鳃（鱼和一些两栖动物的呼吸器官） Example sentencesExamples - In fishes there is equivalent ‘ventilation’ of the gills with water.
- Some others, like the Siamese fighting fish, are capable of breathing air in addition to extracting oxygen from the water with their gills.
- It takes several weeks after hatching to form and until then they are dependent on water absorbed through the gills, the same as any other fish.
- Fish are subject to a variety of maladies, such as grubs or worms, which may be found in or on the skin, attached to gills, or embedded in the flesh.
- Fish start to suffocate out of water and their gills may collapse and bleed.
- Cold, foamy water hushed over the rocks, and the gills of the fishes that swam in it caressed the rocks.
- When in the water, they breathe with their gills as most fish do.
- Barracuda often pump their jaws in order to move water past their gills.
- These fish do not have gills or opercula (gill coverings) like most bony fishes.
- Otherwise they have to keep swimming to force oxygenated water past their gills.
- Fish with torn gills die as inevitably as you would if your lungs were shredded.
- At fish-cleaning stations, cleaner fish nibble the parasites from the gills and mouths of fishes much larger than they are.
- To make matters worse, fish have large respiratory membranes, the gills, which expose a huge amount of surface area to the watery medium.
- In any fish, when blood cycles through the gills to receive oxygen, it also cools to the temperature of the surrounding water.
- White-tailed eagles, which inhabit the same territory, may struggle for hours merely to pry an opening around a fish's gills or front fin.
- In fish, the branchial apparatus forms a system of gills for exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and the water.
- Apparently squirting fresh water into the gills gets them off.
- In fishes and some amphibians, the slits bear gills and are used for gas exchange.
- When you see an aquarium fish gulping water, or ‘making a gookie,’ you will also see the gill cover opening and the gills fluttering, as water is drawn over the gills and the fish breathes.
- Fish, for example, pump water across their gills with their head muscles.
- 1.1 An organ similar to a gill in an invertebrate animal.
（无脊椎动物）鳃状呼吸器官 Example sentencesExamples - In addition to two eyes and a mouth, this animal has markings suggesting gills.
- Notice the three large gills that the animal uses to ‘breathe’ in its underwater environment.
- In some forms the gills were able to remain moist and so allow the animal to move about on land for short periods.
- They depend on this to acquire dissolved nutrients from the surrounding water, in much the same way that animals use the large surface area of their gills in order to obtain oxygen.
2The vertical plates arranged radially on the underside of mushrooms and many toadstools. （蘑菇和多种伞菌的）菌褶 Example sentencesExamples - Agaricus indicates a mushroom with gills, and bisporus refers to this variety's self-sufficiently needing no second mushroom to make little mushrooms.
- He squatted next to her and ran his fingers gently along the gills of one of the large mushrooms.
- An agaric, such as the common field mushroom, has gills in the form of fine, radiating ‘plates’.
- Look for the white cap, stout white stem which detaches easily from the cap, and the pink gills, which turn brown as the mushroom matures.
- They are quite unlike the radiating ribs of ordinary mushrooms, but serve the same function, i.e. they constitute the gills on which the spores are carried.
3The wattles or dewlap of a fowl. （家禽）下腭垂肉 - 3.1gills The flesh below a person's jaws and ears.
腮下肉 we stuffed ourselves to the gills with scrambled eggs and toast 摊鸡蛋加吐司吃得我们腮帮子鼓鼓的。
verbɡilɡɪl [with object]1Gut or clean (a fish). 取出（鱼的内脏）；洗（鱼） Example sentencesExamples - In an attempt to sell it all, he would visit motor camps, his car towing a trailer loaded with iced, gilled and gutted fish and him shouting, ‘fresh snapper for sale!’
- A small whole bass of anything up to about four pounds gets scaled when caught, gilled and gutted.
- Before they put fillet knives in front of American anglers, most of us gutted, gilled and scaled all of our fish.
- Invaluable for tailing, gilling and holding strange fish.
- Immediately after this, gut and gill all fish you wish to eat.
2Catch (a fish) in a gill net. 用刺网捕（鱼）
Phrasesgreen around (or at) the gills (of a person) sickly-looking. （人）满脸病容的，病恹恹的 Example sentencesExamples - That's good because several of my traveling mates appear a bit green around the gills and white in the face this morning.
- After spending a few hours at the boardwalk, we headed for home, all of us tired, a few a bit green around the gills.
- ‘You're looking a little green around the gills!’
- They do great cocktails and shooters, and if you're feeling a little green around the gills you might want to pop to the loo - where the toilet seats are lime coloured too.
- Wall Street is no place for the squeamish, but nowadays, even many long-term, die-hard blue chippers are looking green around the gills.
- The pies keep coming, and some of the contestants are starting to look a little green around the gills.
- He was a little green around the gills but he was grinning from ear to ear through sleepy eyes.
- The very sight makes some men grow green around the gills, hair standing up on their manes like an alley cat meeting a bulldog in a dark alley.
- He was swaying on his feet, a bit green around the gills.
Synonyms pale, pasty-faced, pasty, wan, drained, washed out, drawn, pallid, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, whey-faced, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, grey, pinched, sickly, sallow, as white as a ghost, as white as a sheet, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, ill-looking, sickly-looking
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse. noundʒɪljil A unit of liquid measure, equal to a quarter of a pint. 吉耳（液量单位，等于1/4品脱） Example sentencesExamples - At school we had a free gill of milk each morning break as part of the government's plan to build a nation of healthy young things.
- A tot is a sixth, a fifth, a quarter or a third of a gill of whisky.
- Her cheese pudding has an ounce and a half of breadcrumbs, an ounce of cheese, one gill of milk and half an egg.
- Rustic enough that the notice over the bar still claimed to serve spirits in measures of 1/6 gill.
- The sets of weights were once the work tools of the county's pound police where they were used to measure the pounds, ounces, quarters and gills of an untold number of items.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French gille ‘measure or container for wine’, from late Latin gillo ‘water pot’. nounɡɪlɡil British 1A deep ravine, especially a wooded one. （尤指森林茂密的）峡谷 Example sentencesExamples - After sampling the cheese, walk to the neighbouring village of Hardraw, which is Old English for ‘shepherd's dwelling ’, and view Hardraw Force where Hearne Beck plunges nearly 100 ft into the deep ghyll below.
- A man who failed to return home from a walk in the Helvellyn area spent the night under a bush in a ghyll as 32 rescuers from three areas searched the entire range for him.
- From the early 10th cent. there was considerable Norse settlement, from Ireland and the Isle of Man, leaving evidence in words like fell, ghyll, tarn, and how.
- 1.1 A narrow mountain stream.
涧流 Example sentencesExamples - It's lovely, you sort of follow a gill that has alders like the River Cover, but almost different trees, small and gnarled and ancient looking.
Synonyms stream, small river, streamlet, rivulet, rill, brooklet, runnel, runlet, freshet
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse gil ‘deep glen’. The spelling ghyll was introduced by Wordsworth. nounɡilɡɪl 1A female ferret. 母雪貂。比较 HOB2 （义项1） Compare with hob (sense 1) Example sentencesExamples - A female ferret is called a jill while a male is called a hob.
2derogatory A young woman; a sweetheart.
OriginLate Middle English: abbreviation of the given name Gillian. |