Definition of tuft in English:

tuft

noun tʌfttəft

1A bunch or collection of threads, grass, hair, etc., held or growing together at the base.
（尤指线、草、头发等）一束，一簇
scrubby tufts of grass
浓密的草丛。
Example sentencesExamples
- The child's skin was a dusky brown, and tufts of darker hair were just beginning to grow.
- Most backgrounds are also well defined, with very close attention paid to detail on tufts of grass, trees, and rocks.
- The fluted trunk is sprouting tufts of grass and although still covered in bark, the sapwood underneath is mush.
- He blew out a breath of frustration, and brushed aside the tufts of blonde hair that stuck out at odd angles from under the brim of his helmet.
- His short tufts of brown hair were beginning to show signs of grey, and his forehead one or two wrinkles, but his eyes were still alive with determination as he puffed his pipe.
- Hiding places can be found in between rocks, in tufts of grass or on the branches of low-lying trees or plants.
- Small tufts of tall grass were scattered throughout the flat plain, blades waving slightly in the minuscule breeze.
- At present it looks untidy with small tufts of grey grass here and there.
- The horse was moving at a steady gallop, hooves kicking up tufts of dirt and grass.
- At fifty-nine, he was mostly bald, though a few white tufts of hair grew right behind his ears.
- He was handsome and burly in a way, bald but with white tufts of hair rimming his skull.
- There were different colors of dirt and pebble scattered in between tufts of grass.
- He had fluffy tufts of black hair and an infectious smile.
- After eight years of restorative grazing, the streambeds are bursting with emerald tufts of grass, and the water runs clear.
- The Cotton grass has tiny flowers with tufts of white silky hairs at the top of a stalk.
- Jake collapsed into a heap in the grass under the willow and started bawling, grabbing a few tufts of crinkly brown grass and tearing them out by the roots.
- He picked at the tufts of grass at his shoes, and mumbled, ‘Well, all the same, I prefer sitting here with you.’
- Around them all was silent on the approach to the rear of the station where only weeds and tufts of grass grew.
- They had clambered over a large tract of huge sand dunes littered with tufts of hardy grass, and scattered clumps of cacti, but the sand soon gave way to mountain slopes.
- She looked down at the tufts of grass peeking through the wooden slats.
Synonyms
clump, bunch, knot, cluster, tussock, tuffet
lock, wisp
crest, topknot
tassel
technical floccule, flocculus, floccus, byssus, coma, pappus, scopa
rare panache
1. 1.1Anatomy Zoology A bunch of small blood vessels, respiratory tentacles, or other small anatomical structures.
  〔剖，动〕细血管丛，呼吸腺毛丛等
  Example sentencesExamples
  A 19-year-old, healthy man visited a plastic surgeon because of a cutaneous nodule on the distal tuft of his left index finger.
  Polymorphonuclear leukocyte infiltrates were present in the glomerular tufts, and many glomeruli displayed segmental necrosis.
  Cyst walls showed epithelial tufts or papillary proliferations with delicate fibrovascular cores.
  Some of the larger dilated channels exhibit abortive fibrous tufts, which are slender and poorly cellular.
  The glomerular tufts were shrunken or necrotic and renal medullary rays were congested.

verb tʌfttəft

[with object]

1Provide with a tuft or tufts.
the fringe can be tasselled or tufted
Example sentencesExamples
- The magistrates heard that the company manufactured tufted and Axminster carpets and handled 365 tonnes of packaging waste last year.
- The managing director said the radical restructuring plan was necessary to protect and secure the long-term viability of the company which manufactures carpet tufting and weaving machinery.
- There was paper-making, print making, moose hair tufted jewellery, traditional beading, sketching, carving.
- Despite the obvious problems, the company has been preparing for growth and total employee numbers increased by 26 to 794 last year, mainly at the spinning and tufting factories.
- Well-known for its patterned Axminster carpets, the company's new range of plain coloured woven and tufted carpets gained an ‘outstanding reaction’ from the trade, according to a spokesman.
- He used the now common tufted layout and end-rounded bristles to help create a brush that was still tough on teeth but gentler to gums.
- After establishing his home town as an international leader in carpet tufting machinery, he hit on the idea for his ‘wonder net’ after watching potatoes being mashed.
- The most common means of putting the fibers together is tufting.
- The new products include an extended Naturally Herdwick brand, a new Simply Herdwick carpet and another tufted Herdwick carpet that has yet to be named.
- Each tufted piece is made on an upright frame, using a compressor powered air gun, which shoots the yarn into a canvas backing fabric and creates a heavy, evenly piled rug.
- He'd been dressed in an Adidas t-shirt and traditional woven vest, and carrying a spear tufted with dyed hair.
- Choose a small to medium sized toothbrush, with soft, multi tufted, nylon bristles.
- Reconstructing the shoes caused them to pay still more attention to the way they were put together, to the pattern of the thunderbird in the webbing and to the wool tufting around the rims.
- Today 95 percent of the carpets sold are tufted, not woven, but they are still known as broadloom.
2Needlework
Strengthen (upholstery) by passing a cluster of threads through the material, so making depressions at regular intervals.
Example sentencesExamples
- Furniture makers noticed that tufted upholstery furthered the chair owner's sense of luxury.
- To evoke the enfilade, two long galleries were divided into rows of rooms, the doors between them fixed open, their interiors cosseted by paneled wainscoting, velvet walls and tufted furniture.
- Some small areas the size of a dime can be tufted in with new yarns.
- This cylindrical, tufted pillow would fit in perfectly with a formal living room with heavy drapes, deep sofas, and perhaps a Bichon Frise curled up on the ottoman.
- A primary backing holds stitches in place during tufting.

Derivatives

tufty

adjectivetuftier, tuftiest

But those watchful, pale-blue eyes and the tufty chevrons that punctuate their brows are easier to spot.
Example sentencesExamples
- At the moment many of them are sporting tufty, patchwork haircuts.
- He had short brown hair that was tufty and untidy on top.
- Sure enough, there was Billy, all 5ft 7in of him, with his undeniably pixie-esque features and tufty hair.
- ‘Sorry,’ I winced, as he wandered back into the room, his hair beginning to stick up in bizarre tufty spikes.

Origin

Late Middle English: probably from Old French tofe, of unknown origin. The final -t is typical of phonetic confusion between -f and -ft at the end of words; compare with graft¹.

toff from mid 19th century:
This is perhaps an alteration of tuft, once a term for titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge, who wore a gold tassel on their caps—social climbers and toadies were called tuft-hunters from the mid 18th century. The associations of the word may have influenced toffee-nosed or ‘snobbish’, which was originally military slang. Toffee seems to have been a desirable commodity to soldiers during the First World War— not be able to do something for toffee, or be totally incompetent at it, is first recorded in 1914 in the mouth of a British ‘Tommy’. Toffee (early 19th century) is an alteration of taffy (early 19th century), now mainly used in North America for a sweet resembling toffee. The Taffy that is a name for a Welshman is quite different, representing a supposed Welsh pronunciation of the name David or Dafydd.

Rhymes

unstuffed

Definition of tuft in US English:

tuft

nountəfttəft

1A bunch or collection of threads, grass, hair, etc., held or growing together at the base.
（尤指线、草、头发等）一束，一簇
scrubby tufts of grass
浓密的草丛。
Example sentencesExamples
- Most backgrounds are also well defined, with very close attention paid to detail on tufts of grass, trees, and rocks.
- Around them all was silent on the approach to the rear of the station where only weeds and tufts of grass grew.
- He was handsome and burly in a way, bald but with white tufts of hair rimming his skull.
- The fluted trunk is sprouting tufts of grass and although still covered in bark, the sapwood underneath is mush.
- The horse was moving at a steady gallop, hooves kicking up tufts of dirt and grass.
- There were different colors of dirt and pebble scattered in between tufts of grass.
- Jake collapsed into a heap in the grass under the willow and started bawling, grabbing a few tufts of crinkly brown grass and tearing them out by the roots.
- They had clambered over a large tract of huge sand dunes littered with tufts of hardy grass, and scattered clumps of cacti, but the sand soon gave way to mountain slopes.
- After eight years of restorative grazing, the streambeds are bursting with emerald tufts of grass, and the water runs clear.
- He picked at the tufts of grass at his shoes, and mumbled, ‘Well, all the same, I prefer sitting here with you.’
- He blew out a breath of frustration, and brushed aside the tufts of blonde hair that stuck out at odd angles from under the brim of his helmet.
- He had fluffy tufts of black hair and an infectious smile.
- At fifty-nine, he was mostly bald, though a few white tufts of hair grew right behind his ears.
- At present it looks untidy with small tufts of grey grass here and there.
- His short tufts of brown hair were beginning to show signs of grey, and his forehead one or two wrinkles, but his eyes were still alive with determination as he puffed his pipe.
- The Cotton grass has tiny flowers with tufts of white silky hairs at the top of a stalk.
- She looked down at the tufts of grass peeking through the wooden slats.
- Hiding places can be found in between rocks, in tufts of grass or on the branches of low-lying trees or plants.
- Small tufts of tall grass were scattered throughout the flat plain, blades waving slightly in the minuscule breeze.
- The child's skin was a dusky brown, and tufts of darker hair were just beginning to grow.
Synonyms
clump, bunch, knot, cluster, tussock, tuffet
1. 1.1Anatomy Zoology A bunch of small blood vessels, respiratory tentacles, or other small anatomical structures.
  〔剖，动〕细血管丛，呼吸腺毛丛等
  Example sentencesExamples
  Cyst walls showed epithelial tufts or papillary proliferations with delicate fibrovascular cores.
  Some of the larger dilated channels exhibit abortive fibrous tufts, which are slender and poorly cellular.
  The glomerular tufts were shrunken or necrotic and renal medullary rays were congested.
  Polymorphonuclear leukocyte infiltrates were present in the glomerular tufts, and many glomeruli displayed segmental necrosis.
  A 19-year-old, healthy man visited a plastic surgeon because of a cutaneous nodule on the distal tuft of his left index finger.

verbtəfttəft

[with object]

1usually be tuftedProvide (something) with a tuft or tufts.
使（某物）分成束（或簇）
Example sentencesExamples
- Reconstructing the shoes caused them to pay still more attention to the way they were put together, to the pattern of the thunderbird in the webbing and to the wool tufting around the rims.
- Despite the obvious problems, the company has been preparing for growth and total employee numbers increased by 26 to 794 last year, mainly at the spinning and tufting factories.
- The managing director said the radical restructuring plan was necessary to protect and secure the long-term viability of the company which manufactures carpet tufting and weaving machinery.
- Today 95 percent of the carpets sold are tufted, not woven, but they are still known as broadloom.
- After establishing his home town as an international leader in carpet tufting machinery, he hit on the idea for his ‘wonder net’ after watching potatoes being mashed.
- The magistrates heard that the company manufactured tufted and Axminster carpets and handled 365 tonnes of packaging waste last year.
- He'd been dressed in an Adidas t-shirt and traditional woven vest, and carrying a spear tufted with dyed hair.
- Each tufted piece is made on an upright frame, using a compressor powered air gun, which shoots the yarn into a canvas backing fabric and creates a heavy, evenly piled rug.
- The new products include an extended Naturally Herdwick brand, a new Simply Herdwick carpet and another tufted Herdwick carpet that has yet to be named.
- Choose a small to medium sized toothbrush, with soft, multi tufted, nylon bristles.
- The most common means of putting the fibers together is tufting.
- Well-known for its patterned Axminster carpets, the company's new range of plain coloured woven and tufted carpets gained an ‘outstanding reaction’ from the trade, according to a spokesman.
- He used the now common tufted layout and end-rounded bristles to help create a brush that was still tough on teeth but gentler to gums.
- There was paper-making, print making, moose hair tufted jewellery, traditional beading, sketching, carving.
2Needlework
Make depressions at regular intervals in (a mattress or cushion) by passing a thread through it.
〔缝纫〕（每隔一定距离）用线束钉住（褥，垫）
Example sentencesExamples
- A primary backing holds stitches in place during tufting.
- This cylindrical, tufted pillow would fit in perfectly with a formal living room with heavy drapes, deep sofas, and perhaps a Bichon Frise curled up on the ottoman.
- Furniture makers noticed that tufted upholstery furthered the chair owner's sense of luxury.
- To evoke the enfilade, two long galleries were divided into rows of rooms, the doors between them fixed open, their interiors cosseted by paneled wainscoting, velvet walls and tufted furniture.
- Some small areas the size of a dime can be tufted in with new yarns.

Origin

Late Middle English: probably from Old French tofe, of unknown origin. The final -t is typical of phonetic confusion between -f and -ft at the end of words; compare with graft.

词汇	tuft
释义	Definition of tuft in English: tuft noun tʌfttəft 1A bunch or collection of threads, grass, hair, etc., held or growing together at the base. （尤指线、草、头发等）一束，一簇 scrubby tufts of grass 浓密的草丛。 Example sentencesExamples The child's skin was a dusky brown, and tufts of darker hair were just beginning to grow. Most backgrounds are also well defined, with very close attention paid to detail on tufts of grass, trees, and rocks. The fluted trunk is sprouting tufts of grass and although still covered in bark, the sapwood underneath is mush. He blew out a breath of frustration, and brushed aside the tufts of blonde hair that stuck out at odd angles from under the brim of his helmet. His short tufts of brown hair were beginning to show signs of grey, and his forehead one or two wrinkles, but his eyes were still alive with determination as he puffed his pipe. Hiding places can be found in between rocks, in tufts of grass or on the branches of low-lying trees or plants. Small tufts of tall grass were scattered throughout the flat plain, blades waving slightly in the minuscule breeze. At present it looks untidy with small tufts of grey grass here and there. The horse was moving at a steady gallop, hooves kicking up tufts of dirt and grass. At fifty-nine, he was mostly bald, though a few white tufts of hair grew right behind his ears. He was handsome and burly in a way, bald but with white tufts of hair rimming his skull. There were different colors of dirt and pebble scattered in between tufts of grass. He had fluffy tufts of black hair and an infectious smile. After eight years of restorative grazing, the streambeds are bursting with emerald tufts of grass, and the water runs clear. The Cotton grass has tiny flowers with tufts of white silky hairs at the top of a stalk. Jake collapsed into a heap in the grass under the willow and started bawling, grabbing a few tufts of crinkly brown grass and tearing them out by the roots. He picked at the tufts of grass at his shoes, and mumbled, ‘Well, all the same, I prefer sitting here with you.’ Around them all was silent on the approach to the rear of the station where only weeds and tufts of grass grew. They had clambered over a large tract of huge sand dunes littered with tufts of hardy grass, and scattered clumps of cacti, but the sand soon gave way to mountain slopes. She looked down at the tufts of grass peeking through the wooden slats. Synonyms clump, bunch, knot, cluster, tussock, tuffet lock, wisp crest, topknot tassel technical floccule, flocculus, floccus, byssus, coma, pappus, scopa rare panache 1.1Anatomy Zoology A bunch of small blood vessels, respiratory tentacles, or other small anatomical structures. 〔剖，动〕细血管丛，呼吸腺毛丛等 Example sentencesExamples A 19-year-old, healthy man visited a plastic surgeon because of a cutaneous nodule on the distal tuft of his left index finger. Polymorphonuclear leukocyte infiltrates were present in the glomerular tufts, and many glomeruli displayed segmental necrosis. Cyst walls showed epithelial tufts or papillary proliferations with delicate fibrovascular cores. Some of the larger dilated channels exhibit abortive fibrous tufts, which are slender and poorly cellular. The glomerular tufts were shrunken or necrotic and renal medullary rays were congested. verb tʌfttəft [with object] 1Provide with a tuft or tufts. the fringe can be tasselled or tufted Example sentencesExamples The magistrates heard that the company manufactured tufted and Axminster carpets and handled 365 tonnes of packaging waste last year. The managing director said the radical restructuring plan was necessary to protect and secure the long-term viability of the company which manufactures carpet tufting and weaving machinery. There was paper-making, print making, moose hair tufted jewellery, traditional beading, sketching, carving. Despite the obvious problems, the company has been preparing for growth and total employee numbers increased by 26 to 794 last year, mainly at the spinning and tufting factories. Well-known for its patterned Axminster carpets, the company's new range of plain coloured woven and tufted carpets gained an ‘outstanding reaction’ from the trade, according to a spokesman. He used the now common tufted layout and end-rounded bristles to help create a brush that was still tough on teeth but gentler to gums. After establishing his home town as an international leader in carpet tufting machinery, he hit on the idea for his ‘wonder net’ after watching potatoes being mashed. The most common means of putting the fibers together is tufting. The new products include an extended Naturally Herdwick brand, a new Simply Herdwick carpet and another tufted Herdwick carpet that has yet to be named. Each tufted piece is made on an upright frame, using a compressor powered air gun, which shoots the yarn into a canvas backing fabric and creates a heavy, evenly piled rug. He'd been dressed in an Adidas t-shirt and traditional woven vest, and carrying a spear tufted with dyed hair. Choose a small to medium sized toothbrush, with soft, multi tufted, nylon bristles. Reconstructing the shoes caused them to pay still more attention to the way they were put together, to the pattern of the thunderbird in the webbing and to the wool tufting around the rims. Today 95 percent of the carpets sold are tufted, not woven, but they are still known as broadloom. 2Needlework Strengthen (upholstery) by passing a cluster of threads through the material, so making depressions at regular intervals. Example sentencesExamples Furniture makers noticed that tufted upholstery furthered the chair owner's sense of luxury. To evoke the enfilade, two long galleries were divided into rows of rooms, the doors between them fixed open, their interiors cosseted by paneled wainscoting, velvet walls and tufted furniture. Some small areas the size of a dime can be tufted in with new yarns. This cylindrical, tufted pillow would fit in perfectly with a formal living room with heavy drapes, deep sofas, and perhaps a Bichon Frise curled up on the ottoman. A primary backing holds stitches in place during tufting. Derivatives tufty adjectivetuftier, tuftiest But those watchful, pale-blue eyes and the tufty chevrons that punctuate their brows are easier to spot. Example sentencesExamples At the moment many of them are sporting tufty, patchwork haircuts. He had short brown hair that was tufty and untidy on top. Sure enough, there was Billy, all 5ft 7in of him, with his undeniably pixie-esque features and tufty hair. ‘Sorry,’ I winced, as he wandered back into the room, his hair beginning to stick up in bizarre tufty spikes. Origin Late Middle English: probably from Old French tofe, of unknown origin. The final -t is typical of phonetic confusion between -f and -ft at the end of words; compare with graft¹. toff from mid 19th century: This is perhaps an alteration of tuft, once a term for titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge, who wore a gold tassel on their caps—social climbers and toadies were called tuft-hunters from the mid 18th century. The associations of the word may have influenced toffee-nosed or ‘snobbish’, which was originally military slang. Toffee seems to have been a desirable commodity to soldiers during the First World War— not be able to do something for toffee, or be totally incompetent at it, is first recorded in 1914 in the mouth of a British ‘Tommy’. Toffee (early 19th century) is an alteration of taffy (early 19th century), now mainly used in North America for a sweet resembling toffee. The Taffy that is a name for a Welshman is quite different, representing a supposed Welsh pronunciation of the name David or Dafydd. Rhymes unstuffed Definition of tuft in US English: tuft nountəfttəft 1A bunch or collection of threads, grass, hair, etc., held or growing together at the base. （尤指线、草、头发等）一束，一簇 scrubby tufts of grass 浓密的草丛。 Example sentencesExamples Most backgrounds are also well defined, with very close attention paid to detail on tufts of grass, trees, and rocks. Around them all was silent on the approach to the rear of the station where only weeds and tufts of grass grew. He was handsome and burly in a way, bald but with white tufts of hair rimming his skull. The fluted trunk is sprouting tufts of grass and although still covered in bark, the sapwood underneath is mush. The horse was moving at a steady gallop, hooves kicking up tufts of dirt and grass. There were different colors of dirt and pebble scattered in between tufts of grass. Jake collapsed into a heap in the grass under the willow and started bawling, grabbing a few tufts of crinkly brown grass and tearing them out by the roots. They had clambered over a large tract of huge sand dunes littered with tufts of hardy grass, and scattered clumps of cacti, but the sand soon gave way to mountain slopes. After eight years of restorative grazing, the streambeds are bursting with emerald tufts of grass, and the water runs clear. He picked at the tufts of grass at his shoes, and mumbled, ‘Well, all the same, I prefer sitting here with you.’ He blew out a breath of frustration, and brushed aside the tufts of blonde hair that stuck out at odd angles from under the brim of his helmet. He had fluffy tufts of black hair and an infectious smile. At fifty-nine, he was mostly bald, though a few white tufts of hair grew right behind his ears. At present it looks untidy with small tufts of grey grass here and there. His short tufts of brown hair were beginning to show signs of grey, and his forehead one or two wrinkles, but his eyes were still alive with determination as he puffed his pipe. The Cotton grass has tiny flowers with tufts of white silky hairs at the top of a stalk. She looked down at the tufts of grass peeking through the wooden slats. Hiding places can be found in between rocks, in tufts of grass or on the branches of low-lying trees or plants. Small tufts of tall grass were scattered throughout the flat plain, blades waving slightly in the minuscule breeze. The child's skin was a dusky brown, and tufts of darker hair were just beginning to grow. Synonyms clump, bunch, knot, cluster, tussock, tuffet 1.1Anatomy Zoology A bunch of small blood vessels, respiratory tentacles, or other small anatomical structures. 〔剖，动〕细血管丛，呼吸腺毛丛等 Example sentencesExamples Cyst walls showed epithelial tufts or papillary proliferations with delicate fibrovascular cores. Some of the larger dilated channels exhibit abortive fibrous tufts, which are slender and poorly cellular. The glomerular tufts were shrunken or necrotic and renal medullary rays were congested. Polymorphonuclear leukocyte infiltrates were present in the glomerular tufts, and many glomeruli displayed segmental necrosis. A 19-year-old, healthy man visited a plastic surgeon because of a cutaneous nodule on the distal tuft of his left index finger. verbtəfttəft [with object] 1usually be tuftedProvide (something) with a tuft or tufts. 使（某物）分成束（或簇） Example sentencesExamples Reconstructing the shoes caused them to pay still more attention to the way they were put together, to the pattern of the thunderbird in the webbing and to the wool tufting around the rims. Despite the obvious problems, the company has been preparing for growth and total employee numbers increased by 26 to 794 last year, mainly at the spinning and tufting factories. The managing director said the radical restructuring plan was necessary to protect and secure the long-term viability of the company which manufactures carpet tufting and weaving machinery. Today 95 percent of the carpets sold are tufted, not woven, but they are still known as broadloom. After establishing his home town as an international leader in carpet tufting machinery, he hit on the idea for his ‘wonder net’ after watching potatoes being mashed. The magistrates heard that the company manufactured tufted and Axminster carpets and handled 365 tonnes of packaging waste last year. He'd been dressed in an Adidas t-shirt and traditional woven vest, and carrying a spear tufted with dyed hair. Each tufted piece is made on an upright frame, using a compressor powered air gun, which shoots the yarn into a canvas backing fabric and creates a heavy, evenly piled rug. The new products include an extended Naturally Herdwick brand, a new Simply Herdwick carpet and another tufted Herdwick carpet that has yet to be named. Choose a small to medium sized toothbrush, with soft, multi tufted, nylon bristles. The most common means of putting the fibers together is tufting. Well-known for its patterned Axminster carpets, the company's new range of plain coloured woven and tufted carpets gained an ‘outstanding reaction’ from the trade, according to a spokesman. He used the now common tufted layout and end-rounded bristles to help create a brush that was still tough on teeth but gentler to gums. There was paper-making, print making, moose hair tufted jewellery, traditional beading, sketching, carving. 2Needlework Make depressions at regular intervals in (a mattress or cushion) by passing a thread through it. 〔缝纫〕（每隔一定距离）用线束钉住（褥，垫） Example sentencesExamples A primary backing holds stitches in place during tufting. This cylindrical, tufted pillow would fit in perfectly with a formal living room with heavy drapes, deep sofas, and perhaps a Bichon Frise curled up on the ottoman. Furniture makers noticed that tufted upholstery furthered the chair owner's sense of luxury. To evoke the enfilade, two long galleries were divided into rows of rooms, the doors between them fixed open, their interiors cosseted by paneled wainscoting, velvet walls and tufted furniture. Some small areas the size of a dime can be tufted in with new yarns. Origin Late Middle English: probably from Old French tofe, of unknown origin. The final -t is typical of phonetic confusion between -f and -ft at the end of words; compare with graft.
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