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Definition of sprite in English: spritenounsprʌɪtspraɪt 1An elf or fairy. 鬼怪；小妖精 Example sentencesExamples - Oberon tells Puck, a mischievous sprite, to fetch him a certain magic flower, the juice of which he will press on the eyes of Titania while she sleeps, so that she may fall in love with what she first sees when she wakes.
- The idea came to him during a storm, as he swam in the moat of his Suffolk farmhouse and watched the raindrops dancing on the surface like tiny water sprites.
- In England the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie and was also known as Robin Goodfellow or Puck.
- They were once the ancient guardians of the forests, along with dryads and sprites.
- At first, he thought he had finally lost his mind, and was seeing faeries and sprites.
Synonyms fairy, elf, pixie, imp, brownie, puck, peri, goblin, hobgoblin, kelpie, leprechaun nymph, dryad, sylph, naiad literary faerie, fay rare hob, nix, nixie, elfin 2A computer graphic which may be moved on-screen and otherwise manipulated as a single entity. 电脑子画面，电脑子图形；单色画面 Example sentencesExamples - The computer sprites can't yet convey enough emotion for you to care about them.
- The graphics are 2D sprites and tiled backgrounds instead of a 3D engine that most modern games use.
- The graphics are very impressive indeed: large, detailed sprites with very fluid animations, a bursting colour palette and some of the most lush backgrounds I've ever seen make this game quite a visual treat.
- It was a CD for kids, which used cartoon sprites to teach basic computing skills.
- The graphics have improved, with nice big, colorful sprites for the enemies, and they're varied enough to be interesting.
3A faint flash, typically red, sometimes emitted in the upper atmosphere over a thunderstorm owing to the collision of high-energy electrons with air molecules. （由于高能电子与空气分子相撞而在雷暴上方大气层中形成的多为红色的）黯淡闪电 Example sentencesExamples - While the primary goal was to study severe thunderstorms and their link to heavy rain and hail, scientists also gathered important data on lightning's role in triggering events above thunderclouds, like sprites.
- Space controllers are aware of unusual atmospheric phenomena called sprites, a form of lightning that flashes into space above thunder clouds.
- Some scientists believe that if Columbia was hit by a sprite, heat-shield tiles could have been blasted off, exposing the vulnerable airframe.
- TGFs have been correlated with lightning strikes and may be related to visible phenomena that occur in the upper atmosphere over thunderstorms, such as red sprites and blue jets.
- Occurring in the middle of the atmosphere, red sprites look like the stems of carrots, while blue jets are small streaks of light with flared ends like the horn of trumpet.
OriginMiddle English: alteration of sprit, a contraction of spirit. spirit from Middle English: Our word spirit is based on Latin spiritus ‘breath or spirit’, from spirare ‘to breathe’—the ancient Romans believed that the human soul had been ‘breathed’ into the body—the image is the same as ‘the breath of life’. The sense ‘strong distilled alcoholic drink’ comes from the use in alchemy of spirit to mean ‘a liquid essence extracted from some substance’. People sometimes say the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak when they have good intentions but yield to temptation and fail to live up to them. The source is the New Testament, where Jesus uses the phrase after finding his disciples asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane despite telling them that they should stay awake. Spirare forms the basis of numerous English words including aspire (mid 16th century) from adspirare ‘to breath upon, seek to reach’; conspire (Late Middle English) from conspirare ‘to breath together, agree’; expire (late 16th century) ‘to breath out’; inspire (Late Middle English) ‘breath into’ from the idea that a divine or outside power has inspired you; and perspire (mid 17th century) ‘to breath through’; and transpire (Late Middle English) ‘breath across. In English spirit was shortened to sprite (Middle English) which in turn developed sprightly (late 16th century).
Rhymesaffright, alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, white, wight, wright, write Definition of sprite in US English: spritenounspraɪtsprīt 1An elf or fairy. 鬼怪；小妖精 Example sentencesExamples - In England the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie and was also known as Robin Goodfellow or Puck.
- The idea came to him during a storm, as he swam in the moat of his Suffolk farmhouse and watched the raindrops dancing on the surface like tiny water sprites.
- At first, he thought he had finally lost his mind, and was seeing faeries and sprites.
- They were once the ancient guardians of the forests, along with dryads and sprites.
- Oberon tells Puck, a mischievous sprite, to fetch him a certain magic flower, the juice of which he will press on the eyes of Titania while she sleeps, so that she may fall in love with what she first sees when she wakes.
Synonyms fairy, elf, pixie, imp, brownie, puck, peri, goblin, hobgoblin, kelpie, leprechaun 2A computer graphic which may be moved on-screen and otherwise manipulated as a single entity. 电脑子画面，电脑子图形；单色画面 Example sentencesExamples - The computer sprites can't yet convey enough emotion for you to care about them.
- The graphics are very impressive indeed: large, detailed sprites with very fluid animations, a bursting colour palette and some of the most lush backgrounds I've ever seen make this game quite a visual treat.
- The graphics have improved, with nice big, colorful sprites for the enemies, and they're varied enough to be interesting.
- The graphics are 2D sprites and tiled backgrounds instead of a 3D engine that most modern games use.
- It was a CD for kids, which used cartoon sprites to teach basic computing skills.
3A faint flash, typically red, sometimes emitted in the upper atmosphere over a thunderstorm owing to the collision of high-energy electrons with air molecules. （由于高能电子与空气分子相撞而在雷暴上方大气层中形成的多为红色的）黯淡闪电 Example sentencesExamples - TGFs have been correlated with lightning strikes and may be related to visible phenomena that occur in the upper atmosphere over thunderstorms, such as red sprites and blue jets.
- Space controllers are aware of unusual atmospheric phenomena called sprites, a form of lightning that flashes into space above thunder clouds.
- While the primary goal was to study severe thunderstorms and their link to heavy rain and hail, scientists also gathered important data on lightning's role in triggering events above thunderclouds, like sprites.
- Occurring in the middle of the atmosphere, red sprites look like the stems of carrots, while blue jets are small streaks of light with flared ends like the horn of trumpet.
- Some scientists believe that if Columbia was hit by a sprite, heat-shield tiles could have been blasted off, exposing the vulnerable airframe.
OriginMiddle English: alteration of sprit, a contraction of spirit. |