| 释义 |
Definition of appendage in English: appendagenoun əˈpɛndɪdʒəˈpɛndɪdʒ 1A thing that is added or attached to something larger or more important. 附加物，附属物（常有否定或贬义的内涵） they treat Scotland as a mere appendage of England 他们仅视苏格兰为英格兰的一个属地。 Example sentencesExamples - The claim of self-sufficiency cannot be contingent upon an appendage to another human being considered superior.
- Instead, she presented herself as an appendage to her husband and talked about her role as consort.
- She had no administrative power and was added as an administrative appendage to the college's organizational chart.
- I was astonished that she'd found any boy to marry, thinking anyone so foolish would be like her, a flawed appendage to a decent family.
- For Scott, the school became an indispensable appendage to the mosque.
- Are individualism and stardom necessary to the dramatic work, or are they supplemental, a mere appendage of modernity?
- He deeply dislikes the implicit idea that a wife is a lesser appendage to her husband.
- The High Court, he said, was not an inessential appendage to the new constitutional structure.
- They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs.
- The damage to the car itself is settled between insurers, apart from the excess on the motorist's policy, which he may not trouble to pursue except as an appendage to a larger claim.
- He pushed away tall grass and went into a new clearing that was an appendage to the lake.
- One of the ways that management continues to be defined, then, is as an appendage to a technical specialism, or as a technical specialism in its own right.
- In modern large-scale industrial production humans become mere appendages of machines.
- Last but not least he predicted that New South Wales would lose its supremacy and probably become a provincial appendage to South Australia.
- Some critics regard the didactic second part as an appendage to an earlier secular poem; others see the whole as an allegorical representation of human exile from God on the sea of life.
- The college-distance 3-pointer always has seemed an illogical and unnecessary appendage to a wonderful game.
- Once she entered the stage, dressed in red, the rest of the actors and actresses turned into mere appendages or devices to carry on the continuity of the story.
- Consequently, feathering will not be able to produce the asymmetry necessary for the rowing appendage to generate net thrust.
- The word compromise had no place in her vocabulary - she lived on her terms and when she could no longer do so, she preferred to die rather than become an appendage to someone else's life.
- The tiny structure was an appendage to a larger house Matt had bought, intending to use the lesser quarters as a rental property.
Synonyms addition, attachment, adjunct, addendum, appurtenance, accessory, accompaniment, affix, extra, add-on, supplement, accretion, peripheral 2Biology
A projecting part of an invertebrate or other living organism, with a distinct appearance or function. 〔生〕附器，附属物 a pair of feathery appendages through which oxygen is absorbed Example sentencesExamples - Bipedality freed the forelimbs and allowed development of the hands as highly specialized appendages with great dexterity.
- Not all appendages in rotifers function by directly interfering with predatory attack.
- The feather is a skin appendage, like hair, that grows as a unique hollow tube from a follicle by the controlled proliferation of cells in a ring.
- The second pair of appendages, the pedipalps, resemble walking legs.
- These differences in number of segments and function of appendages are used to distinguish between crustacean groups.
Synonyms protuberance, projection, extremity, limb, organ tail, tailpiece, arm, leg technical process archaic member
Definition of appendage in US English: appendagenounəˈpɛndɪdʒəˈpendij 1(often with negative or pejorative connotations) a thing that is added or attached to something larger or more important. they treat Scotland as a mere appendage of England 他们仅视苏格兰为英格兰的一个属地。 Example sentencesExamples - The High Court, he said, was not an inessential appendage to the new constitutional structure.
- The claim of self-sufficiency cannot be contingent upon an appendage to another human being considered superior.
- Last but not least he predicted that New South Wales would lose its supremacy and probably become a provincial appendage to South Australia.
- Instead, she presented herself as an appendage to her husband and talked about her role as consort.
- The college-distance 3-pointer always has seemed an illogical and unnecessary appendage to a wonderful game.
- Some critics regard the didactic second part as an appendage to an earlier secular poem; others see the whole as an allegorical representation of human exile from God on the sea of life.
- The word compromise had no place in her vocabulary - she lived on her terms and when she could no longer do so, she preferred to die rather than become an appendage to someone else's life.
- He deeply dislikes the implicit idea that a wife is a lesser appendage to her husband.
- He pushed away tall grass and went into a new clearing that was an appendage to the lake.
- For Scott, the school became an indispensable appendage to the mosque.
- The damage to the car itself is settled between insurers, apart from the excess on the motorist's policy, which he may not trouble to pursue except as an appendage to a larger claim.
- Consequently, feathering will not be able to produce the asymmetry necessary for the rowing appendage to generate net thrust.
- Are individualism and stardom necessary to the dramatic work, or are they supplemental, a mere appendage of modernity?
- The tiny structure was an appendage to a larger house Matt had bought, intending to use the lesser quarters as a rental property.
- In modern large-scale industrial production humans become mere appendages of machines.
- One of the ways that management continues to be defined, then, is as an appendage to a technical specialism, or as a technical specialism in its own right.
- I was astonished that she'd found any boy to marry, thinking anyone so foolish would be like her, a flawed appendage to a decent family.
- They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs.
- She had no administrative power and was added as an administrative appendage to the college's organizational chart.
- Once she entered the stage, dressed in red, the rest of the actors and actresses turned into mere appendages or devices to carry on the continuity of the story.
Synonyms addition, attachment, adjunct, addendum, appurtenance, accessory, accompaniment, affix, extra, add-on, supplement, accretion, peripheral - 1.1Biology A projecting part of an invertebrate or other living organism, with a distinct appearance or function.
〔生〕附器，附属物 many species have specialized clutching appendages 许多物种都有它们专用的抓附用的附器。 Example sentencesExamples - Bipedality freed the forelimbs and allowed development of the hands as highly specialized appendages with great dexterity.
- The second pair of appendages, the pedipalps, resemble walking legs.
- Not all appendages in rotifers function by directly interfering with predatory attack.
- These differences in number of segments and function of appendages are used to distinguish between crustacean groups.
- The feather is a skin appendage, like hair, that grows as a unique hollow tube from a follicle by the controlled proliferation of cells in a ring.
Synonyms protuberance, projection, extremity, limb, organ
|