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单词 grenadier
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Definition of grenadier in English:

grenadier

noun ˌɡrɛnəˈdɪəˌɡrɛnəˈdɪr
  • 1historical A soldier armed with grenades.

    〈史〉掷弹兵

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the old photos the cemetery hill is bare, but now it is wooded over, and the Hussars, Cossacks, infantrymen, grenadiers and all the rest are lying in the shade of the trees.
    • By this time though, the grenade itself had been largely dropped from the infantryman's armoury and grenadiers were simply soldiers selected for their appearance and height.
    • At dusk on 14 October, two 400-man columns, one French grenadiers and chasseurs, the other American light infantry under Alexander Hamilton, attacked two redoubts in advance of the main British line.
    • The grenade may also have gone off prematurely as fuses were temperamental and several grenadiers in that era lost hands because of this.
    • By the time of the Napoleonic wars grenadiers had been reformed into new units as new warfare techniques simply outdated them.
    1. 1.1 (in the UK) the first regiment of the royal household infantry.
      (英国)第一皇家近卫步兵团
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He volunteered for the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1938 and was seconded to the Grenadier Guards, seeing action at Dunkirk and D Day.
      • After Sandhurst, Gort joined the Grenadier Guards.
      • British Grenadiers were a proud and highly-trained British fighting force.
      • I served in the Grenadier Guards and was on duty at Windsor many times and saw her on several occasions.
      • In early 1942 she was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards, at sixteen she carried out her first public engagement, when she inspected the regiment.
  • 2A common bottom-dwelling fish with a large head, a long tapering tail, and typically a luminous gland on the belly.

    长尾鳕。亦称RAT-TAIL

    Family Macrouridae: numerous genera and species

    Also called rat-tail
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bottom-dwelling grenadiers, hakes, cods, and their relatives use their chin barbels to find bottom-dwelling prey, or animals hunted and killed for food.
    • When some of the water is removed from the grenadier, its flesh becomes firm, and the meat flaky, says Crapo.
    • The grenadiers are characterized externally by having large heads, projecting snouts, and slender bodies that taper to whiplike tails, with no definitely demarked caudal fin.
    • Bailey, the lead author of the study, points out that grenadiers are not the only fish population that seems to be increasing.
    • Fleets of mainly Spanish and Panamanian trawlers fish for deep-sea species such as the orange roughy and the round-nosed grenadier which are popular among consumers on the continent.
  • 3A reddish-brown African waxbill with a red bill and a bright blue rump.

    蓝饰雀

    Genus Uraeginthus, family Estrildidae: the common grenadier (U. granatina), with violet cheeks, and the purple grenadier (U. lanthinogaster), with a blue belly

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Again in the morning we were up early - to explore this lodge's grounds and find black-backed puffback, golden-breasted bunting, brown parisoma, purple grenadier, brimstone canary, scarlet-chested and amethyst sunbirds.
    • Bird lovers will enjoy the barbets, boubous, chatterers, weavers and brightly-attired purple grenadiers who are resident here.
    • I don't know about plants, and the only birds I have seen around the orphanage are crows, purple grenadiers, and the scrawny chickens that will eventually end up on the supper table.

Origin

Late 17th century: from French, from grenade (see grenade).

Rhymes

adhere, Agadir, Anglosphere, appear, arrear, auctioneer, austere, balladeer, bandolier, Bashkir, beer, besmear, bier, blear, bombardier, brigadier, buccaneer, cameleer, career, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, charioteer, cheer, chevalier, chiffonier, clavier, clear, Coetzee, cohere, commandeer, conventioneer, Cordelier, corsetière, Crimea, dear, deer, diarrhoea (US diarrhea), domineer, Dorothea, drear, ear, electioneer, emir, endear, engineer, fear, fleer, Freer, fusilier, gadgeteer, Galatea, gazetteer, gear, gondolier, gonorrhoea (US gonorrhea), Greer, hand-rear, hear, here, Hosea, idea, interfere, Izmir, jeer, Judaea, Kashmir, Keir, kir, Korea, Lear, leer, Maria, marketeer, Medea, Meir, Melilla, mere, Mia, Mir, mishear, mountaineer, muleteer, musketeer, mutineer, near, orienteer, pamphleteer, panacea, paneer, peer, persevere, pier, Pierre, pioneer, pistoleer, privateer, profiteer, puppeteer, racketeer, ratafia, rear, revere, rhea, rocketeer, Sapir, scrutineer, sear, seer, sere, severe, Shamir, shear, sheer, sincere, smear, sneer, sonneteer, souvenir, spear, sphere, steer, stere, summiteer, Tangier, tear, tier, Trier, Tyr, veer, veneer, Vere, Vermeer, vizier, volunteer, Wear, weir, we're, year, Zaïre

Definition of grenadier in US English:

grenadier

nounˌɡrenəˈdirˌɡrɛnəˈdɪr
  • 1historical A soldier armed with grenades or a grenade launcher.

    〈史〉掷弹兵

    Example sentencesExamples
    • By the time of the Napoleonic wars grenadiers had been reformed into new units as new warfare techniques simply outdated them.
    • The grenade may also have gone off prematurely as fuses were temperamental and several grenadiers in that era lost hands because of this.
    • In the old photos the cemetery hill is bare, but now it is wooded over, and the Hussars, Cossacks, infantrymen, grenadiers and all the rest are lying in the shade of the trees.
    • By this time though, the grenade itself had been largely dropped from the infantryman's armoury and grenadiers were simply soldiers selected for their appearance and height.
    • At dusk on 14 October, two 400-man columns, one French grenadiers and chasseurs, the other American light infantry under Alexander Hamilton, attacked two redoubts in advance of the main British line.
    1. 1.1 (in the UK) the first regiment of the royal household infantry.
      (英国)第一皇家近卫步兵团
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He volunteered for the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1938 and was seconded to the Grenadier Guards, seeing action at Dunkirk and D Day.
      • After Sandhurst, Gort joined the Grenadier Guards.
      • I served in the Grenadier Guards and was on duty at Windsor many times and saw her on several occasions.
      • In early 1942 she was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards, at sixteen she carried out her first public engagement, when she inspected the regiment.
      • British Grenadiers were a proud and highly-trained British fighting force.
  • 2A common bottom-dwelling fish with a large head, a long tapering tail, and typically a luminous gland on the belly.

    长尾鳕。亦称RAT-TAIL

    Family Macrouridae: numerous genera and species

    Also called rat-tail
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The grenadiers are characterized externally by having large heads, projecting snouts, and slender bodies that taper to whiplike tails, with no definitely demarked caudal fin.
    • Fleets of mainly Spanish and Panamanian trawlers fish for deep-sea species such as the orange roughy and the round-nosed grenadier which are popular among consumers on the continent.
    • Bailey, the lead author of the study, points out that grenadiers are not the only fish population that seems to be increasing.
    • Bottom-dwelling grenadiers, hakes, cods, and their relatives use their chin barbels to find bottom-dwelling prey, or animals hunted and killed for food.
    • When some of the water is removed from the grenadier, its flesh becomes firm, and the meat flaky, says Crapo.

Origin

Late 17th century: from French, from grenade (see grenade).

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