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billow 音标拼音: [b'ɪlo] n. 巨浪
vi. 象巨浪般汹涌,象巨浪般波动
vt. 使翻腾 巨浪象巨浪般汹涌,象巨浪般波动使翻腾 billow n 1: a large sea wave [ synonym: { billow}, { surge}] v 1: rise up as if in waves; " smoke billowed up into the sky" [ synonym: { billow}, { wallow}] 2: move with great difficulty; " The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed" 3: rise and move, as in waves or billows; " The army surged forward" [ synonym: { billow}, { surge}, { heave}] 4: become inflated; " The sails ballooned" [ synonym: { balloon}, { inflate}, { billow}] Billow \ Bil" low\, n. [ Cf. Icel. bylgja billow, Dan. b[" o] lge, Sw. b[" o] lja; akin to MHG. bulge billow, bag, and to E. bulge. See { Bulge}.] 1. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind. [ 1913 Webster] Whom the winds waft where' er the billows roll. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A great wave or flood of anything. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
Billow \ Bil" low\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Billowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Billowing}.] To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. " The billowing snow." -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] 67 Moby Thesaurus words for " billow": bag, balloon, be poised, belly, belly out, bilge, bore, bouge, break, breakers, bug, bulge, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, comb, comber, crash, dash, dilate, dirty water, distend, eagre, ebb and flow, goggle, gravity wave, ground swell, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, lift, lop, peak, pooch, pop, popple, pouch, pout, riffle, ripple, rise, rise and fall, roll, roller, rough water, round out, scend, sea, send, smash, surf, surge, swell, swell out, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, toss, trough, tsunami, undulate, undulation, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses, whitecaps
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