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noun ˈbiːt(ə)lˈbidl 1An insect of a large order distinguished by having forewings that are typically modified into hard wing cases (elytra), which cover and protect the hindwings and abdomen. 甲虫 Order Coleoptera: see Coleoptera Example sentencesExamples - They can easily slice right though a beetle's hard armour.
- It turns out that only some male horned scarab beetles grow long horns and battle for mates.
- Among all the insects only beetles have these specialized fore-wings.
- Green June beetles also emerge in July and they also feed on ripe fruit.
- The beetles' backs are covered with bumps - under a microscope, they resemble a landscape of peaks and valleys.
- Although most of the beetles were dead, a number were still quite active and one beetle climbed onto a film vial in the pan and took flight.
- I see cucumber beetles in the garden all summer long.
- Ants, beetles, and termites turn over soil and wood.
- Insects, especially beetles and ants, are the main food of Downy Woodpeckers.
- Rare forms of beetle and fly have been known to live there, and it offers a breeding ground for otters.
- Only a few insects feed on lichens - some moths and beetles among them.
- In ancient Egypt they worshipped all kinds of creatures even insects and bugs like a scarab beetle.
- Mark's passion for peculiar pets started when he collected caterpillars, beetles and scorpions as a child.
- Over 1,000 species of beetle and spider have been found, many of which are dependent on the trees for their survival.
- The hard sheath over the beetle's wings has a waxy surface dotted with tiny nonwaxy bumps.
- This tiny black female beetle, the size of a poppy seed, is already spreading in the Great Smoky Mountains.
- This beetle's black antennae are nearly as long as its body.
- A variety of insects, including some beetles and moths, mimic bees and wasps.
- He takes out a glass case containing the beautiful beetle, with a golden shell, black spots, and antennae, just as he had originally said.
- Adult beetles hide in soil during the day and fly to trees to feed at night.
Synonyms winged insect technical coleopteran 2British mass noun A dice game in which a picture of a beetle is drawn or assembled. 〈英〉画甲虫，拼甲虫（一种掷骰子游戏） Example sentencesExamples - Ending the evening with a beetle drive which was enjoyed by all.
- The race meeting is one of the few engagements, outside of the Windsor Wives' beetle drive, which the Queen actively enjoys.
- There were beetle drives, ginger beer and iced biscuits for the choir in the big house, and seaside outings to Walton-on-the-Naze.
- Winnie said she remembered shows being suspended during the Second World Ward and members held a number of whist and beetle drives to keep the group together - and also put together packages for the boys on the front line.
- Two months before, the players raised £400 for the appeal by holding a beetle drive.
- In the old days, we used to meet weekly and ran bingo and beetle drives to raise money.
- They played football, took part in a beetle drive and sang French songs for their English friends.
- Take turns to roll the dice and gradually build your beetle (you must start with the body).
- Saturday, April 9, beetle drive in aid of church funds, 7pm.
verb ˈbiːt(ə)lˈbidl informal no object, with adverbial of direction Make one's way hurriedly. 游客匆忙离去。 Example sentencesExamples - Between us, we put everything away, the Engineer and his missus beetled off amid cheery cries of ‘No problem’, and I staggered off, cat securely clutched in arms, in search of gin.
- And off he beetled to the back room he set up a couple of days ago, with a clean workbench and a worklight just right for the assembly of electronic components.
- And, besides, it gave Graham a place to hide while I beetled over to the display of windchimes and began to put them through their paces.
- Oh, I pop down in the car frequently enough, park by the Spardis, grab some provisions and beetle off back home.
- Today being a working day, a couple of utility trucks came beetling down the lane to meet and pass me, driven by a drowsy farm-worker off to start work.
- Among the panelled walls, stained glass skylights and beetling, tuxedoed waiters you will see tributes to famous literary and political regulars.
Synonyms scurry, scamper, scuttle, bustle, hurry, hasten, rush, race, dash informal scoot, tear, pelt, zip, belt
OriginOld English bitula, bitela 'biter', from the base of bītan 'to bite'. The meaning of the source word for this creature is ‘biter’, and it is closely related to bite. The other word beetle, ‘a heavy mallet’, is unrelated. It comes ultimately from the ancestor of beat, ‘to strike’. The Beetle is an affectionate name for a type of small Volkswagen car that was first produced in 1938. The term started as a nickname, and was not officially adopted by the company until the 1960s. A review of the car in Motor magazine during 1946 said: ‘It has the civilian saloon body on the military chassis with the higher ground clearance, and it looks rather like a beetle on stilts.’ Beetle-browed means ‘having bushy eyebrows’. In Middle English brow was always an eyebrow and not the forehead; it has been suggested that the comparison is with the tufted antennae of certain beetles, which may have been called eyebrows in both English and French.
Rhymesbetel, chital, decretal, fetal noun ˈbiːt(ə)lˈbidl 1A very heavy mallet, typically with a wooden head, used for ramming, crushing, etc. （尤指头部为木头的）大槌，夯 Example sentencesExamples - Champ was prepared especially for the festival of Hallowe'en when large quantities of potatoes were pounded with a cylindrical wooden implement called a beetle.
2A machine used for heightening the lustre of cloth by pressure from rollers. 捶布机 Example sentencesExamples - Depending on the beetle pressure in a stand and individual susceptibility of baited trees, attacks may range from unsuccessful or no attack, to successfully mass attacked.
- It worked perfectly - intensity of light was controlled by pressure on the beetle!
verb ˈbiːt(ə)lˈbidl [with object]1Ram or crush with a beetle. 用大槌捶，用夯打 she stood in a shed, beetling grain for the fowl 2Finish (cloth) with a beetle. 用捶布机捶（布） Example sentencesExamples - From sowing to pulling, retting to rippling, spinning to weaving, beetling to bleaching, a long, exhausting and sometimes dangerous business made a cloth so precious it was put under armed guard and cost thieves their lives.
OriginOld English bētel, of Germanic origin; related to beat. verb ˈbiːt(ə)lˈbidl [no object]usually as adjective beetling(of a rock or a person's eyebrows) project or overhang. （人的眉毛）突出，悬垂 his eyebrows beetled with irritation Example sentencesExamples - With his massive build, black beetling eyebrows and perma-frown he resembles a pantomime baddie.
- And then he began pounding on the table like Kruschev, his eyebrows beetling furiously.
- He glared forbiddingly, his eyebrows beetling together like two fuzzy caterpillars were mating on his forehead.
- From this distance, about a hundred meters, he could make out beetled brows, and kerchiefs around noses and mouths.
- His eyes brightened when he saw Krys's face, his brows beetling when he noticed her worried look.
- His eyebrows beetled, and he slipped into a deep sleep, with the music of Total Package playing in his ears.
- The examiner was a Dr Bull, an elderly anatomy lecturer of rather Victorian appearance, with mutton chop whiskers and beetling eyebrows.
- her husband demands, the famously intimidating brows beetling like two grizzled insects as he proceeds to fiddle with a radiator.
- Alan proceeded to get up from the table without a word and stalk off, his shoulders hunched and his brow beetled.
- I only got an impression of mass and darkness and a searing glare from under beetled brows, and then he had disappeared into the crowd.
- The walk up the ramp from Waverley Station reveals on the left the beetling houses and gothic towers of the Old Town, clinging to the sides of the Castle rock.
- Where the beetling cliff falls sheerly to the seething sea beneath,
- Encouraged by the romantic writers of the nineteenth century, we too find in the life of castle, cathedral, and beetling hilltop towns a poetic refuge from an industrialized world.
Synonyms projecting, protruding, prominent, overhanging, sticking out, jutting out, standing out, bulging, bulbous, pendent
adjective ˈbiːt(ə)lˈbidl attributive (of a person's eyebrows) shaggy and projecting. （人的眉毛）突出，悬垂 Example sentencesExamples - Beneath the beetle brow and the thinning combover, however, lurked a singular songwriting talent.
- He furrows his beetle brows and fixes his stare on the turf in front, indifferent to the periphery.
- He turned towards her; his eyes flashing under his beetling eyebrows.
OriginMid 16th century (as an adjective): back-formation from beetle-browed, first recorded in Middle English. The verb was apparently used as a nonce word by Shakespeare and was later adopted by other writers. nounˈbidlˈbēdl An insect of an order distinguished by forewings typically modified into hard wing cases (elytra) that cover and protect the hind wings and abdomen. 甲虫 Order Coleoptera: see Coleoptera Example sentencesExamples - Only a few insects feed on lichens - some moths and beetles among them.
- Over 1,000 species of beetle and spider have been found, many of which are dependent on the trees for their survival.
- The beetles' backs are covered with bumps - under a microscope, they resemble a landscape of peaks and valleys.
- Mark's passion for peculiar pets started when he collected caterpillars, beetles and scorpions as a child.
- In ancient Egypt they worshipped all kinds of creatures even insects and bugs like a scarab beetle.
- Adult beetles hide in soil during the day and fly to trees to feed at night.
- Insects, especially beetles and ants, are the main food of Downy Woodpeckers.
- Ants, beetles, and termites turn over soil and wood.
- Green June beetles also emerge in July and they also feed on ripe fruit.
- Although most of the beetles were dead, a number were still quite active and one beetle climbed onto a film vial in the pan and took flight.
- A variety of insects, including some beetles and moths, mimic bees and wasps.
- They can easily slice right though a beetle's hard armour.
- Among all the insects only beetles have these specialized fore-wings.
- The hard sheath over the beetle's wings has a waxy surface dotted with tiny nonwaxy bumps.
- This tiny black female beetle, the size of a poppy seed, is already spreading in the Great Smoky Mountains.
- Rare forms of beetle and fly have been known to live there, and it offers a breeding ground for otters.
- This beetle's black antennae are nearly as long as its body.
- It turns out that only some male horned scarab beetles grow long horns and battle for mates.
- I see cucumber beetles in the garden all summer long.
- He takes out a glass case containing the beautiful beetle, with a golden shell, black spots, and antennae, just as he had originally said.
verbˈbidlˈbēdl informal no object, with adverbial of direction Make one's way hurriedly or with short, quick steps. 〈非正式〉快步走，匆忙 游客匆忙离去。 Example sentencesExamples - And off he beetled to the back room he set up a couple of days ago, with a clean workbench and a worklight just right for the assembly of electronic components.
- And, besides, it gave Graham a place to hide while I beetled over to the display of windchimes and began to put them through their paces.
- Today being a working day, a couple of utility trucks came beetling down the lane to meet and pass me, driven by a drowsy farm-worker off to start work.
- Among the panelled walls, stained glass skylights and beetling, tuxedoed waiters you will see tributes to famous literary and political regulars.
- Between us, we put everything away, the Engineer and his missus beetled off amid cheery cries of ‘No problem’, and I staggered off, cat securely clutched in arms, in search of gin.
- Oh, I pop down in the car frequently enough, park by the Spardis, grab some provisions and beetle off back home.
Synonyms scurry, scamper, scuttle, bustle, hurry, hasten, rush, race, dash
OriginOld English bitula, bitela ‘biter’, from the base of bītan ‘to bite’. nounˈbidlˈbēdl 1A tool with a heavy head and a handle, used for tasks such as ramming, crushing, and driving wedges; a maul. Example sentencesExamples - Champ was prepared especially for the festival of Hallowe'en when large quantities of potatoes were pounded with a cylindrical wooden implement called a beetle.
- 1.1 A machine used for heightening the luster of cloth by pressure from rollers.
捶布机 Example sentencesExamples - It worked perfectly - intensity of light was controlled by pressure on the beetle!
- Depending on the beetle pressure in a stand and individual susceptibility of baited trees, attacks may range from unsuccessful or no attack, to successfully mass attacked.
verbˈbidlˈbēdl [with object]1Ram, crush, or drive with a beetle. 用大槌捶，用夯打 - 1.1 Finish (cloth) with a beetle.
用捶布机捶（布） Example sentencesExamples - From sowing to pulling, retting to rippling, spinning to weaving, beetling to bleaching, a long, exhausting and sometimes dangerous business made a cloth so precious it was put under armed guard and cost thieves their lives.
OriginOld English bētel, of Germanic origin; related to beat. verbˈbidlˈbēdl [no object]usually as adjective beetling(of a person's eyebrows) project or overhang threateningly. （人的眉毛）突出，悬垂 piercing eyes glittered beneath a great beetling brow 突出的浓眉下闪烁着目光犀利的双眼。 Example sentencesExamples - Where the beetling cliff falls sheerly to the seething sea beneath,
- Alan proceeded to get up from the table without a word and stalk off, his shoulders hunched and his brow beetled.
- His eyes brightened when he saw Krys's face, his brows beetling when he noticed her worried look.
- With his massive build, black beetling eyebrows and perma-frown he resembles a pantomime baddie.
- The walk up the ramp from Waverley Station reveals on the left the beetling houses and gothic towers of the Old Town, clinging to the sides of the Castle rock.
- From this distance, about a hundred meters, he could make out beetled brows, and kerchiefs around noses and mouths.
- His eyebrows beetled, and he slipped into a deep sleep, with the music of Total Package playing in his ears.
- He glared forbiddingly, his eyebrows beetling together like two fuzzy caterpillars were mating on his forehead.
- And then he began pounding on the table like Kruschev, his eyebrows beetling furiously.
- The examiner was a Dr Bull, an elderly anatomy lecturer of rather Victorian appearance, with mutton chop whiskers and beetling eyebrows.
- her husband demands, the famously intimidating brows beetling like two grizzled insects as he proceeds to fiddle with a radiator.
- Encouraged by the romantic writers of the nineteenth century, we too find in the life of castle, cathedral, and beetling hilltop towns a poetic refuge from an industrialized world.
- I only got an impression of mass and darkness and a searing glare from under beetled brows, and then he had disappeared into the crowd.
Synonyms projecting, protruding, prominent, overhanging, sticking out, jutting out, standing out, bulging, bulbous, pendent
adjectiveˈbidlˈbēdl attributive (of a person's eyebrows) shaggy and projecting. （人的眉毛）突出，悬垂 Example sentencesExamples - Beneath the beetle brow and the thinning combover, however, lurked a singular songwriting talent.
- He furrows his beetle brows and fixes his stare on the turf in front, indifferent to the periphery.
- He turned towards her; his eyes flashing under his beetling eyebrows.
OriginMid 16th century (as an adjective): back-formation from beetle-browed, first recorded in Middle English. The verb was apparently used as a nonce word by Shakespeare and was later adopted by other writers. |