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hollow 音标拼音: [h'ɑlo] n. 洞,窟窿,山谷
a. 空的,虚伪的,空腹的,凹的
vi. 形成空洞
vt. 挖空 洞,窟窿,山谷空的,虚伪的,空腹的,凹的形成空洞挖空 hollow adj 1: not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; " a hollow wall"; " a hollow tree"; " hollow cheeks"; " his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year" [ ant: { solid}] 2: as if echoing in a hollow space; " the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom" 3: devoid of significance or point; " empty promises"; " a hollow victory"; " vacuous comments" [ synonym: { empty}, { hollow}, { vacuous}] n 1: a cavity or space in something; " hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks" 2: a small valley between mountains; " he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians" [ synonym: { hollow}, { holler}] 3: a depression hollowed out of solid matter [ synonym: { hole}, { hollow}] v 1: remove the inner part or the core of; " the mining company wants to excavate the hillside" [ synonym: { excavate}, { dig}, { hollow}] 2: remove the interior of; " hollow out a tree trunk" [ synonym: { hollow}, { hollow out}, { core out}] Hollow \ Hol" low\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Hollowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Hollowing}.] To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. " Trees rudely hollowed." -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster]
Hollow \ Hol" low\, adv. Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See { All}, adv. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster] The more civilized so- called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. -- Darwin. [ 1913 Webster]
Hollow \ Hol" low\, n. 1. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. [ 1913 Webster] Forests grew Upon the barren hollows. -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster]
Hollow \ Hol" low\, a. [ OE. holow, holgh, holf, AS. holh a hollow, hole. Cf. { Hole}.] 1. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere. [ 1913 Webster] Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. -- Ex. xxvii. 8. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. [ 1913 Webster] With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] { Hollow newel} ( Arch.), an opening in the center of a winding staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a staircase. { Hollow quoin} ( Engin.), a pier of stone or brick made behind the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or recess to receive the ends of the gates. { Hollow root}. ( Bot.) See { Moschatel}. { Hollow square}. See { Square}. { Hollow ware}, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast- iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc. Syn: Syn.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false; faithless; deceitful; treacherous. [ 1913 Webster]
Hollow \ Hol* low"\, interj. [ See { Hollo}.] Hollo. [ 1913 Webster]
Hollow \ Hol" low\, v. i. To shout; to hollo. [ 1913 Webster] Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster]
Hollow \ Hol" low\, v. t. To urge or call by shouting. [ 1913 Webster] He has hollowed the hounds. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 293 Moby Thesaurus words for " hollow": absurd, abysm, abyss, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, aperture, apparently sound, arid, armpit, artificial, bare, baritone, barren, basin, bass, blah, bland, blank, bleached, bloodless, boat- shaped, boatlike, booth, bootless, bowl, bowl- shaped, bowllike, box, broaching, casuistic, cave, cave in, cavelike, cavern, cavernous, cavity, cell, cellule, chamber, characterless, chasm, check, clear, clearing, cleft, cold, colorable, colorless, compartment, concave, concaved, concavity, contralto, costly, counterfeit, crack, crater, craterlike, crevasse, crib, crypt, cup, cup- shaped, cupped, cymbiform, cynical, dale, dead, deceitful, deceptive, deep, deep- echoing, deep- pitched, deep- toned, deepmouthed, dell, dent, dented, depressed, depression, depth, devoid, dig out, dig up, dip, disclosure, dish, dish- shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, dishonest, disingenuous, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dredge, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, empty- headed, empty- minded, empty- pated, empty- skulled, enclosed space, etiolated, excavate, excavation, fade, fallacious, false, famished, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feigned, fenestra, fistula, flat, fold, follicle, fontanel, foramen, fraudulent, fruitless, funnel chest, funnel- breasted, funnel- chested, funnel- shaped, furrow, futile, gap, gape, gat, glen, gouge, grave, gulf, heavy, hiatus, ho- hum, hold, hole, hollow out, hollow shell, hollowed, hungry, hypocritical, idle, illusive, impression, inane, incurve, incurved, incurving, incurvous, indentation, indented, ineffective, inexcitable, infundibular, infundibuliform, inlet, insincere, insipid, interval, jejune, jesuitic, lacuna, laying open, leaden, leak, lifeless, low, low- pitched, low- spirited, manger, mealymouthed, meaningless, mendacious, muffled, navicular, naviform, null, null and void, opening, opening up, orifice, otiose, outlet, overrefined, oversubtle, pale, pallid, passageway, pedestrian, pew, philosophistic, pit, plausible, plodding, pocket, pointless, poky, ponderous, pore, profitless, punch bowl, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, ravenous, retire, retiring, retreat, retreating, reverberant, sag, saucer- shaped, scaphoid, scatterbrained, scoop, scyphate, senseless, sepulchral, shaft, sham, shell, sink, sinkage, sinkhole, sinus, slot, slow, socket, solemn, sophistic, sophistical, space, specious, spiritless, split, spoonlike, spurious, stall, starved, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stoma, stuffy, sunk, sunken, superficial, tasteless, tedious, throwing open, toneless, tongue in cheek, trough, unavailing, uncandid, uncorking, unfilled, unfrank, unlively, unprofitable, unrelieved, unserious, unstopping, vacant, vacuity, vacuous, vain, valley, valueless, vapid, vault, void, vug, well, white, with nothing inside, without content, wooden, worthless, yawn, yawning abyss
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