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verbcooed, cooing, coos kuːku [no object]1(of a pigeon or dove) make a soft murmuring sound. （鸽子）发出咕咕声；咕咕叫 ringdoves cooed among the branches 斑鸠在树枝上咕咕叫着。 Example sentencesExamples - The doves are cooing and wooing and calling for love.
- For a long time your body lies there while the pigeons mill about, cooing to one another.
- Jet-black ravens squawked in the churchyard and storm-grey pigeons cooed in the park.
- A mourning dove cooed in the distance, accompanied by the never-ending drone of dragonflies and cicadas in the creek bed hidden behind the tall grass of the field.
- I thought I would be in the gentle surroundings of my room at home but a strange, dark room greeted me; odd noises of pigeons cooing and taxis screeching and car horns blazing wildly in my ears.
- As she walked pass the table, the dove flew up to her shoulder, cooing in her ear.
- Bluebells and ‘lords and ladies’ are poking up, and overhead early morning pigeons cooed gently in the trees or cruised the valley.
- In the park the pigeons flap and coo, and a couple of girls wearing pink headscarves rock idly backwards and forwards on the red swings beside the climbing frame.
- He cradled the pigeon in his hands, listening to it coo gently before releasing it into the air.
- You're never sure if the phone's ringing in the distance, someone is moving about in the flat upstairs or a pigeon is cooing outside the window.
- White winged doves coo, and a whiptail lizard scurries across the gravel.
- Pigeons cooed from the rooftops of buildings, and rats scurried along the floor.
- As I sat there, wistfully watching the kids run round me, I scattered some cheesy puffs and cashew nuts for pigeons which descended cooing and flapping to peck among the grit.
- I could hear the pigeons cooing overhead, a constant cacophony of noise that filtered down from the eighth floor.
- It is peaceful - quiet now except for mourning doves cooing in a nearby mesquite.
- Most days she goes to the writer's room, a calm neutral space where doves coo outside.
- Even as I tell people about our new garden, an image flashes up of friendly old men bending down over enormous cabbages, their pigeons softly cooing in the loft behind.
- Birds flew through the trees and cooed peacefully from the branches.
- I say pigeon cooing because Joseph also likes the pigeons and his pigeon won a race last weekend.
- Though there was still a haze of darkness, he could hear the starting of the pigeons cooing.
- 1.1 (of a person) speak in a soft gentle voice.
（人）柔情地说话；柔声细语 she cooed with delight as he unpacked the bags with direct speech ‘I knew I could count on you,’ she cooed “我知道我可以依靠你，"她柔声说道。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘You're very fast, the fastest I've seen,’ the lady cooed.
- ‘Miss,’ his gentle voice cooed, checking to see if she was awake.
- The frail girl cooed in a soft voice that matched her fragile figure.
- ‘Ah, good,’ the man cooed softly, his voice lowering, becoming more reassuring.
- As reporters cooed about a ‘second chance’, only a few hard-hearts were prepared to be realistic.
- Being petless, I find it hard enough when people start cooing about their cats.
- We've all seen it: a mother crouched on the floor, arms outstretched, cooing to her baby as he lopsidedly plops first one hand, then the other, on the carpet, dragging his chubby knees behind him.
- ‘My sweet baby,’ I cooed, stroking her tiny arm.
- The nurses coo over how healthy and well it looks.
- The grand lobby had my grandmother cooing - score some points for me.
- The rest of the girls grew into precious little flowers that danced across the room, parents cooed and clapped, and everyone forgot that Alicia, the seed, was curled up in the corner.
- Hopefully, I'll then turn all mushy and gooey as I start cooing, ‘Aw, look at his little hands!’
- While Colleen was cooing over his attempts at flowery language, I saw Madison lean over to him.
- I mean you should have seen all of those people cooing over me at the bridal shop.
- As I sit down in my seat, Barbara coos sadly and says to me as she looks at the detention paper in my hands, ‘Now I can't go home with you.’
- Hunter cooed to him softly, showing a softer side to his draconic steed than he did to most people.
- ‘Yes, yes, please do,’ I would coo soothingly, anxious not to disturb his flow.
- Minutes later, I was cradling my little baby boy, cooing to him as his mother had left in a huff soon after dropping by.
- ‘We can call your lawyer and work out the rest of the details this week,’ my mom cooed to the lovely wife.
- Ladies were cooing over them but he didn't acknowledge them.
nounPlural COOs, Plural coos kuːku A soft murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon. （鸽子的）咕咕声 Example sentencesExamples - Wainwright isn't just a sweet songbird; she's the black dove with the weather-beaten coo and has the ability to howl like a seasoned blues singer.
- The small, pigeon-like birds that feed on the ground are called mourning doves because of the sad sound of their coos.
- Next time you're out, pay attention to the sound of the doves; you should be able to easily identify the coos of different species.
- When I hear a soft coo, I look back and see him step out the window.
- There is a dove who occasionally sits and coos mournfully on the roof, but I don't think he's fixed up.
- It was a mellow sneeze from a nose at peace with itself, contented as the coo of a pigeon.
- In the eaves, doves' coos beat the intro over and over.
- Dogs darted among the crowd with the children, their barks mingling with the yowls of cats in alleys and on rooftops and the coos and flutter of pigeons taking flight.
- Deep within a nest cavity near the top of the tree, the pair's two chicks uttered hoarse coos, begging for food.
- When compared with the pre-playback period, significant differences were observed in flight numbers for AM coos and for flight latency in nonmodulated coos.
- Deer run here, but nature was subdued - the soft coo of a pigeon, the tracks of a rabbit, the thinnest of the branches bent low and coated thick.
OriginMid 17th century: imitative. Rhymesaccrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo exclamation kuːku British informal Used to express surprise. 〈英，非正式〉（表示惊讶）哇，呣 ‘Coo, ain't it high!’ Mary squeaked 玛丽尖叫道：“哇，真高啊！”
OriginEarly 20th century: imitative. nounPlural COOs, Plural coossiːəʊˈəʊˌsiˌoʊˈoʊ A chief operations (or operating) officer, a senior executive responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of a company or other institution. Example sentencesExamples - The current COO of BBC Worldwide will be tasked with further establishing the business as a destination for content creators outside the U.S.
- He also spent almost a decade at Toys"R"Us Inc. as its COO.
- For some time there had been rumors that he would be stepping down from his position as COO.
- She became COO of the organization three years later and inherited the responsibility of managing several branches throughout the region.
- I've been an administrative assistant for many Presidents, CFOs, and COOs.
- I was COO of a successful organic food company.
- He is a government affairs consultant, and a past president and COO of a banking software consulting firm.
- He took on the role of CFO in 2005 and also became COO in 2008.
- All good CEOs and COOs excel at 10 core leadership competencies, but truly great executives outperform their peers in different ways.
- Freer first joined Fox in 1997 and has served as president and before that COO of FOX Sports Networks.
verbko͞oku [no object]1(of a pigeon or dove) make a soft murmuring sound. （鸽子）发出咕咕声；咕咕叫 ringdoves cooed among the branches 斑鸠在树枝上咕咕叫着。 Example sentencesExamples - I could hear the pigeons cooing overhead, a constant cacophony of noise that filtered down from the eighth floor.
- He cradled the pigeon in his hands, listening to it coo gently before releasing it into the air.
- The doves are cooing and wooing and calling for love.
- I thought I would be in the gentle surroundings of my room at home but a strange, dark room greeted me; odd noises of pigeons cooing and taxis screeching and car horns blazing wildly in my ears.
- Jet-black ravens squawked in the churchyard and storm-grey pigeons cooed in the park.
- Bluebells and ‘lords and ladies’ are poking up, and overhead early morning pigeons cooed gently in the trees or cruised the valley.
- Though there was still a haze of darkness, he could hear the starting of the pigeons cooing.
- A mourning dove cooed in the distance, accompanied by the never-ending drone of dragonflies and cicadas in the creek bed hidden behind the tall grass of the field.
- Most days she goes to the writer's room, a calm neutral space where doves coo outside.
- I say pigeon cooing because Joseph also likes the pigeons and his pigeon won a race last weekend.
- It is peaceful - quiet now except for mourning doves cooing in a nearby mesquite.
- In the park the pigeons flap and coo, and a couple of girls wearing pink headscarves rock idly backwards and forwards on the red swings beside the climbing frame.
- For a long time your body lies there while the pigeons mill about, cooing to one another.
- White winged doves coo, and a whiptail lizard scurries across the gravel.
- As I sat there, wistfully watching the kids run round me, I scattered some cheesy puffs and cashew nuts for pigeons which descended cooing and flapping to peck among the grit.
- Birds flew through the trees and cooed peacefully from the branches.
- Even as I tell people about our new garden, an image flashes up of friendly old men bending down over enormous cabbages, their pigeons softly cooing in the loft behind.
- Pigeons cooed from the rooftops of buildings, and rats scurried along the floor.
- As she walked pass the table, the dove flew up to her shoulder, cooing in her ear.
- You're never sure if the phone's ringing in the distance, someone is moving about in the flat upstairs or a pigeon is cooing outside the window.
- 1.1 (of a person) speak in a soft gentle voice.
（人）柔情地说话；柔声细语 “I knew I could count on you,” she cooed “我知道我可以依靠你，"她柔声说道。 I cruised the room, cooing at toddlers Example sentencesExamples - Minutes later, I was cradling my little baby boy, cooing to him as his mother had left in a huff soon after dropping by.
- The rest of the girls grew into precious little flowers that danced across the room, parents cooed and clapped, and everyone forgot that Alicia, the seed, was curled up in the corner.
- Ladies were cooing over them but he didn't acknowledge them.
- While Colleen was cooing over his attempts at flowery language, I saw Madison lean over to him.
- The grand lobby had my grandmother cooing - score some points for me.
- ‘Miss,’ his gentle voice cooed, checking to see if she was awake.
- ‘Ah, good,’ the man cooed softly, his voice lowering, becoming more reassuring.
- We've all seen it: a mother crouched on the floor, arms outstretched, cooing to her baby as he lopsidedly plops first one hand, then the other, on the carpet, dragging his chubby knees behind him.
- As I sit down in my seat, Barbara coos sadly and says to me as she looks at the detention paper in my hands, ‘Now I can't go home with you.’
- Hunter cooed to him softly, showing a softer side to his draconic steed than he did to most people.
- As reporters cooed about a ‘second chance’, only a few hard-hearts were prepared to be realistic.
- Being petless, I find it hard enough when people start cooing about their cats.
- The frail girl cooed in a soft voice that matched her fragile figure.
- I mean you should have seen all of those people cooing over me at the bridal shop.
- ‘You're very fast, the fastest I've seen,’ the lady cooed.
- ‘My sweet baby,’ I cooed, stroking her tiny arm.
- ‘We can call your lawyer and work out the rest of the details this week,’ my mom cooed to the lovely wife.
- The nurses coo over how healthy and well it looks.
- ‘Yes, yes, please do,’ I would coo soothingly, anxious not to disturb his flow.
- Hopefully, I'll then turn all mushy and gooey as I start cooing, ‘Aw, look at his little hands!’
nounko͞oku A soft murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon. （鸽子的）咕咕声 Example sentencesExamples - Deep within a nest cavity near the top of the tree, the pair's two chicks uttered hoarse coos, begging for food.
- There is a dove who occasionally sits and coos mournfully on the roof, but I don't think he's fixed up.
- The small, pigeon-like birds that feed on the ground are called mourning doves because of the sad sound of their coos.
- When compared with the pre-playback period, significant differences were observed in flight numbers for AM coos and for flight latency in nonmodulated coos.
- Deer run here, but nature was subdued - the soft coo of a pigeon, the tracks of a rabbit, the thinnest of the branches bent low and coated thick.
- Dogs darted among the crowd with the children, their barks mingling with the yowls of cats in alleys and on rooftops and the coos and flutter of pigeons taking flight.
- In the eaves, doves' coos beat the intro over and over.
- Wainwright isn't just a sweet songbird; she's the black dove with the weather-beaten coo and has the ability to howl like a seasoned blues singer.
- When I hear a soft coo, I look back and see him step out the window.
- It was a mellow sneeze from a nose at peace with itself, contented as the coo of a pigeon.
- Next time you're out, pay attention to the sound of the doves; you should be able to easily identify the coos of different species.
OriginMid 17th century: imitative. exclamationkuko͞o British informal Used to express surprise. 〈英，非正式〉（表示惊讶）哇，呣 “Coo, ain't it high!” Mary squeaked 玛丽尖叫道：“哇，真高啊！”
OriginEarly 20th century: imitative. nounˌsiˌoʊˈoʊˌsēˌōˈō A chief operations (or operating) officer, a senior executive responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of a company or other institution. Example sentencesExamples - All good CEOs and COOs excel at 10 core leadership competencies, but truly great executives outperform their peers in different ways.
- The current COO of BBC Worldwide will be tasked with further establishing the business as a destination for content creators outside the U.S.
- He also spent almost a decade at Toys"R"Us Inc. as its COO.
- For some time there had been rumors that he would be stepping down from his position as COO.
- He took on the role of CFO in 2005 and also became COO in 2008.
- I was COO of a successful organic food company.
- Freer first joined Fox in 1997 and has served as president and before that COO of FOX Sports Networks.
- I've been an administrative assistant for many Presidents, CFOs, and COOs.
- She became COO of the organization three years later and inherited the responsibility of managing several branches throughout the region.
- He is a government affairs consultant, and a past president and COO of a banking software consulting firm.
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