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noun bɪlbɪl 1A printed or written statement of the money owed for goods or services. the bill for their meal came to £17 他们的餐费账款计17英镑。 Example sentencesExamples - There were receipts, hospital bills and written statements attesting to court decisions in cases both filed by the protesters and brought against them.
- He's still got plenty of legal bills to write checks for from that last trial.
- A ‘surveyor’ then calls who will identify damp as a problem and give a quote - often running up a bill of £1,500.
- After June 2000, the Solicitor provided the services and delivered the bills on her own account as a sole practitioner.
- In fact, I used to pay my bills, and even write some of the recipes for my cookbook with this desk.
- My mother has never paid a bill, written a cheque or drawn money from the bank in her life.
- Unfortunately, the thieves had had a little spending spree at Comet, running up a bill of £1000 on my Amex.
- At the end of last term, after continually withdrawing money and paying bills, she noticed a significant drop in her bank account, but dismissed it as poor budgeting.
- You can now write checks, pay bills, invest, apply for a loan, buy or sell stock, send or receive money anywhere in the world, all electronically.
- He couldn't pay bills, check money coming into his account or make salary payment.
- This can allow you to check your balance, view past transactions, pay bills and transfer money between accounts.
- When he sat at his desk, unless he happened to be paying the bills, writing the payroll, or ordering supplies, it usually meant he was getting a break.
- In March Phillips stayed at a Cirencester guest house, running up a bill of £266 before leaving without paying.
- Irish customers use their phones for an average of 198 minutes a month, running up a bill of €44.28.
- Consumers can quickly, safely and reliably pay bills and transfer money around the globe using the company's proprietary money transfer network.
- A stickler for detail, Goring actually reads the fine print on all her bills and credit cards statements to make sure she isn't being overcharged.
- However, when they reached Goole the boat had already sailed, and they were brought back to Selby where, after running up a bill for storage for a few days they were sent on to Chatham by rail.
- The groups say that money should go to the panel writing the spending bill for education and human services.
- Shave money off your broadband bill while offering a public service to your neighbors.
- I don't write checks for my bills before I get my paycheck, that's a pretty risky practice.
Synonyms invoice, account, statement, list of charges, tally amount due North American check informal the damage North American informal tab British informal, dated shot archaic reckoning, score 2A draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion. 议案（提交议会讨论的法律草案） a debate over the civil rights bill 对民权法案的一场辩论。 Example sentencesExamples - Workers, who gathered in front of AKP buildings, wanted the draft bill withdrawn from parliament.
- I guess we can tell that we are at the dog-end when the best the Government can do is present to Parliament bills of this nature for consideration.
- The Minister's presenting the bill that he was proposing to put to Parliament.
- Please note - this is a draft bill at present, so it is still in the public consultation stage.
- The two bills presently before parliament contain very similar measures.
- You have also talked about how Martin voted against 24 out of 27 private members' bills in Parliament.
- I hope that everyone who contributed to the consultation will see their hand in the bill presented to parliament this week.
- Now there are rumblings of trying to rectify this unsatisfactory situation, with various bills proposed in parliament and seminars held on the matter.
- A discussion on a bill presented by a ‘cabinet minister’ would be put to vote after discussions.
- Parliament has approved a bill, proposed by Mr. Chen, that permits referendums on critical issues.
- Labor leader Kim Beazley initially opposed the private members' bills proposed by the backbench Liberals.
- She said that they ‘pray that parliament accepts the draft bill in the spirit in which it is intended.’
- Last week, a private members' bill was presented to Parliament calling for a ban on masts near classrooms and homes.
- Within a few weeks a draft bill was presented to parliament; it had two clauses later to become sections 1 and 2 of the Act of 1916.
- The central bank is drafting a bill to be presented in Parliament during the budget session, which will seek to put a cap on government guarantees and public debt.
- Margo MacDonald presented her bill to the Parliament in this context.
- The government has presented around 30 bills to the parliament, which it wants to pass rapidly during final two weeks of August.
- Fairly good discussion on the Scottish Parliament's proposed Gaelic bill on today's Lesley Riddoch show.
- The compensation levels will become legally binding on all airlines in the EU once the European Parliament passes the bill.
- Their counterparts in Denmark are presently preparing a bill for the Danish parliament on euro membership.
Synonyms draft law, proposed legislation, proposal, measure act, Act of Parliament 3A programme of entertainment at a theatre or cinema. （尤指剧院、电影院的）节目单 she was top of the bill at America's leading vaudeville house 在美国的一流轻歌舞剧剧院中她总是挂头牌。 Example sentencesExamples - It can put you top of the bill at the theatre, if it wasn't for Boycie I wouldn't be doing that.
- Bernard was top of the bill at a fun day at The Rising Sun in Burnage, to raise funds for the £5m Francis House appeal.
- The 2004 line-up looks even more impressive and top of the bill are two very talented singer-songwriters.
- Battle of the bands winners Desid will be top of the bill at the ninth annual rock concert at George Ward School, Melksham tonight.
- Top of the bill of course were kd lang and Tony Bennett.
- Antoine quickly secured four one-act plays for the evening's bill.
- Top of the bill are mobile technology and e-commerce, with speakers from Cisco, Nokia, Ericcson as well as home-grown talent.
- Also on the bill are theatre productions, art exhibitions and arts and culture workshops.
- Top of the bill is Canny, Pembrokeshire's human beat-boxer.
- John Power, Antonio Forcione and Jason Lockett complete the bill in the Globe Theatre.
- On Saturday night at a big show in Castlebar Thomas Moran boxed the home club's John Waldron on the top of the bill and it was the Westport man who came out on top.
- Berry wasn't top of the bill, and I remember his thoughts on that issue reverberated throughout the evening.
- Anna admitted that, physically, she looks nothing like the star who remained top of the bill for 60 years.
- James Loynes, a rising singing star from Chorley, was top of the bill.
- Top of the bill is a recital at 3pm in the Sensory Gardens by the Army Band conducted by Captain Mark Armstrong.
- In the unusually smelly dressing room, there were some photocopies of some old bills from the theatre from Georgian times.
- On the bill are two very different but artistically compatible plays to be performed in repertory and an American classic that hasn't been staged in Kansas City in decades.
- Now a fantastic bill of entertainment has been unveiled for the Celebration Ball.
- The concert will feature a host of local entertainers and top of the bill will be the widely acclaimed Clare singer Larry Mc Evoy.
- This, the only native play on the bill, proved easily the most interesting, and was the best acted.
Synonyms programme (of entertainment), listing, list, line-up North American playbill dated bill of fare 4North American A banknote. 〈北美〉钞票 一张10美元钞票。 Example sentencesExamples - She opened the wallet and took out a twenty-dollar bill and three ten-dollar bills.
- Every one of them had at least five dollars in them, except three, which had ten dollar bills folded in the cards.
- No, I'll say I found a ten-dollar bill on the street last week, because that's also true.
- She quickly withdrew money from her backpack, folding two ten dollar bills into her pocket.
- A scarf and a ten-dollar bill, to be put in my savings account.
- Travis smiles and then puts a ten-dollar bill on the table.
- Michael pulled out two twenty's and a ten-dollar bill and placed it in front of Tom.
- Suddenly providence tugged at H.E. Crumpled up on the curb lay a ten-dollar bill.
- I held out a hand jokingly but to my surprise he actually gave the ten-dollar bill to me.
- At the door into the airport, Abbey stopped to slip the kind flight attendant two crisp ten-dollar bills.
- He walks up to one of the machines, inserts a ten-dollar bill in the appropriate slot and presses some green illuminated number pad.
- Damry slipped the clerk a ten-dollar bill and thanked him, then smiled at her friend.
- They also chose to pull all existing dollar bills and pound notes from circulation to force their people to use the coins.
- She dug into the pockets of her dirty tan coat and withdrew a ten-dollar bill.
- Then he and Cath both slapped a ten-dollar bill on the table and headed out the door.
- Clara led the boy to his parents and gave them a ten-dollar bill.
- Ronald pulls out his wallet and peels off a ten-dollar bill, giving it to the younger man along with his ticket.
- Gordon dug in a leather wallet and procured nineteen ten-dollar bills.
- He had laid the mail on the table already, bills and bank notes separated from his own personal correspondence.
- He pulled out the money his father had given him to pay for the mare, and peeled off a ten-dollar bill.
Synonyms banknote, note North American greenback 5A poster or handbill. 招贴，海报；传单 as modifier he has been hard at work bill posting in a poster and sticker campaign Example sentencesExamples - Traffic signboards are blatantly misused for sticking posters and bills.
- Stop and think about that the next time you see one of those forbidding Post No Bills warnings stenciled on fences and construction sites or on any other vacant canvas in New York that isnt already covered by posters.
- No controls existed, and as a result adverts and theatre bills were plastered on every available space - hoardings, end walls of buildings, fences.
- Old Drury Lane has called me in, with jealousy to cover 'em, And sent me round with their own bills, to go and plaster over 'em.
- Well, first we did some illegal bill postering and then we stole some milk crates.
- Del Toro's wood-plank facade is now scuffed and plastered with concert bills, no sign or door in sight.
Synonyms poster, advertisement, public notice, announcement flyer, leaflet, circular, handout, handbill British fly-poster North American & Australian dodger French affiche informal ad British informal advert
verb bɪlbɪl [with object]1List (a person or event) in a programme. 把（人或项目）列入节目单，安排…演出，预定 they were billed to appear but did not show up 按计划他们是要出场的，但没有露面。 Example sentencesExamples - According to the team manager Arjun Dharmadasa, the Lankan team is billed to play Japan on Dec.18.
- Navin Samarasinghe also entered the final of the men's open event where he is billed to do battle with the hardened Janaka Suwaris.
- If he had known the secret all along, he never would have spent the 1990s performing in American restaurants where he was billed below the BBQ ribs.
- He is also billed to speak at a fundraising dinner in Toronto during the same trip; the Canadian government has placed no restrictions in his path.
- The result - when the allure of the biggie DJ wears thin, as it has recently, there's nothing to fill the gaps between the next highly billed event.
- Out of the nine events which were billed for the last day, India picked up four titles and were followed by Sri Lanka and Pakistan who took three and two titles, respectively.
- Sight seeing and daily meetings are billed, with a Grand Black Tie event on the final night.
- There has not been too much news from the Killoran Clan gatherings of late, but all that has now changed as another re-union is billed for October of this year.
- Further spice is added with the event being billed in some quarters as a battle royal between Manchester and Merseyside.
- He was billed after star Dana Andrews, leading lady Linda Darnell and second male lead Sterling Hayden.
- The occasion is billed to be unique, the mood motivational and the message, a powerful assertion of the value of self - belief.
- ‘It happened to Vuyani Bungu when he was billed in the same tournament with Hamed and then ultimately fought him,’ he said.
- The third billed artist, Jonny Regan, did not have a lot to do and I wondered why he had been given such prominence, in view of the fact that there were others in the cast who, if not given top billing, should at least have been featured.
- The Baggies' boss, who billed the duel with Wanderers as the biggest game of his Premiership career, frowned at the loss of two vital survival points.
- Mungo Jerry were also billed to play but, sadly, decided not to.
- Cinema programmes, sports meetings, and dances; all are billed here and none appears with more consistent regularity than that saviour of so many club bank deficits - the whist drive.
- He is billed for a performance at Club Amaruzu in Queens, New York on October 24 alongside veteran reggae crooner Coco Tea and dancehall star Capleton.
- As I predicted, although the concert was billed to start at 7.45 it didn't start until after 8.
- He has put in every effort to ensure that the event billed the ‘Dame Mary Peters Weekend’ is a resounding success.
Synonyms advertise, promote, announce, post, give advance notice of, put up in lights - 1.1bill someone/something as Describe or advertise someone or something in a particular way.
he was billed as ‘the new Sean Connery’ 他被作为“肖恩·康纳里再世”来宣传。 Example sentencesExamples - Shapiro bills the series as an unglamorous look at life in the clink and the power of music as a means of rehabilitation.
- Meanwhile, completing the billing for the day are Doves, whose latest album ‘The Last Broadcast’ was number one in the UK for three weeks.
- Organisers are billing this event as a BIlingual festival and a Celtic celebration.
- Now the actual work is billed as ‘Fa'afafine ’, so there will be people coming to this show expecting to learn more about fa'afine.
- Well the Government is billing the budget as further proof of its commitment to Australia's national security.
- Even the advertising campaign on television is billing the tie as a massacre, happily chirruping: ‘If you thought the cricket was bad…‘
- Effectively billing her book as an anti-Lonely Planet, Appelbe has gathered and archived the secret things that make Vancouver unique.
- In 1870 the birds were billed as ‘doomed to certain extinction ‘and by 1977 they seemed technically extinct.’
- On their website, they're running ads and billing them as ‘news’.
- The foundation bills the report as a ‘wake-up call for all Canadians, especially those living outside major urban centres, to take a look at their communities and their lifestyles.’
- Dr Andrew Walker, a senior lecturer in health economics at Glasgow University, said: ‘It is very hard to see this as being the step change that it was billed as.’
- The attorney general bills this measure as a necessary tactic in the war against terrorism, but it is unlikely to prevent a future terrorist attack or snare any key members of terrorist groups intent upon doing damage to this country.
- This is a cunning move that works in its favour, as by billing the movie as a straight kidnap cum psychological thriller, Gaylene Preston is able to brilliantly subvert audience expectations.
- The introduction bills the book as an effort to ‘set the record straight,’ but it is actually an attempt to push the record far to the right.
- They are billing the clash as a unique partnership between the rugby clubs, aiming to create an exciting and dynamic future for rugby league in the Bay.
- But a spokeswoman for DDF said although they had billed their product as being similar to Botox treatment, it did not contain any potentially harmful chemicals.
- Drudge bills this story as a denial, but it isn't quite.
- The sign outside bills Blue Mountain as a ‘Jamaican and Canadian food’ restaurant, using the curious terminology more frequently associated with ‘Chinese and Canadian’ joints.
- Dave's business card bills him as ‘the original jester… bluer than blue’.
- They billed their approach as a bold use of the legislation, saying it was a response to persistent harassment of residents by travellers.
- The society bills its guide as a ‘must-read for all armchair supporters’ and claims that even the most over-enthusiastic spectator should not need to be stretchered off mid-match.
Synonyms describe as, call, style, label, dub, designate, pronounce promote as, publicize as, talk up as informal hype as
2Send a bill to (someone) we shall be billing them for the damage caused 我们将要求他们支付损失费用。 with two objects he had been billed £3,000 for his licence 他为取得执照交了3，000英镑。 Example sentencesExamples - In the past 12 months, have you talked to any of the following to see if you could pay a lower price than they billed you, or wanted to bill you?
- We work with a young group of engineers who weren't billing us on a regular basis.
- Otherwise, you'll have to e-mail the images to yourself, and the wireless carriers will bill you.
- Like the doctor who can give you medicine while you're in a coma… and bill you for it!
- It is important to check the meter number to ensure the new supplier is billing you for the correct meter.
- If your client rents inventory space, find out how the client is billed for inventory storage.
- Here's how: Let's say you are billed on the first of the month and your payment is due on the 25th.
- US agencies bill models for expenses, while Irish agencies bill the clients.
- Costs and profits are estimated over the life of the deal, and as work is completed the customer is billed on a monthly or quarterly basis.
- British gas have just billed me out of the blue for over £190 worth of Electricity for the past 2 years!
- He suggested billing clients via e-mail, rather than by regular mail as his department was doing at the time.
- The doctor will retain the sort of freedom to choose how they bill, and there'll be a reward for them for bulk billing pensioners and card holders, there's no doubt about that.
- Is Joe Customer being billed for the service or product that he receives?
- His troops are trying to convert customers to a pay-as-you-go utility model where IBM turns on the processing power and customers are billed based on how much they use.
- Shivute attributed this to the fact that some councils buy water at a high tariff and then bill their customers at a lower rate, which he said creates a discrepancy.
- Lawson Whyte calculate costs on a percentage of the client budget for larger products, while for smaller works the client is either billed by the hour or a lump sum is agreed in advance.
- Cars can now be equipped with electronic devices that emit signals relayed to highway monitors, and car owners are billed for their highway usage.
- Cell phone records show that he was talking at the time of the accident, and time records reflect that he was billing a client for the time he was talking.
- A strategic zapper logs a driver's car every time he passes a certain point and he is billed every month accordingly.
- There's nothing more important than accuracy when it comes to billing patients and insurers for psychological services, say ethics experts.
Synonyms send an invoice to, invoice, charge, debit, send a statement to - 2.1 Charge (a sum of money)
索价，收取（费用） 我们索价40万英镑。 Example sentencesExamples - If you accept credit card payments, bill the buyer's credit card account only when you're ready to ship the product.
- I hadn't given anyone my number in this town, except the usual people who bill my living expenses.
- Last year it settled charges that it illegally billed excessive fees and violated consumer protection regulations.
- Cllr Michelle Mulherin said she knew some people levied with commercial water charges who felt they were unfairly billed.
- Taylor, of Upper Baggot St, Dublin was billed €12,600 for ‘an annual creative fee’.
- User-pays charges will be billed separately by councils and, of course, will continue to include GST.
- This can make physicians in small practices loathe to take on deaf patients, as they may lose money once they have billed insurance and paid for an interpreter.
- Students who don't pay their fees by the end of January will be billed a two per cent interest charge every month until they pay their tuition.
- But Ms Probert said there were two sides to the story and she had also heard that PCTs had been unable to release the money because they had not been properly billed.
- His firm charged $735, 398 for the work, billing Taylor's time at $400 an hour.
- He believes that billed revenue this year will be four times last year's figure.
- The catch is that any other usage will be billed at whatever tariffs the relevant hotspot owner charges, so no gratis web surfing or emailing, we're afraid.
Synonyms send an invoice to, invoice, charge, debit, send a statement to
PhrasesBe suitable for a particular purpose. 符合要求，适合需要 Example sentencesExamples - Not entirely without surprise, serendipity had its way with me and I stumbled on one of my much-loved poems, by Henry Reed, that fitted the bill perfectly.
- Cecil reportedly sees her more of an Oaks-type and tomorrow's race, over nine furlongs, should fit the bill perfectly.
- They, or in fact we, are the sorts of people who feel the need to do something compulsively, and blogging fits the bill perfectly.
- The show never fails to entertain, and the small restaurant/bar perfectly fits the bill for the eclectic mix of musicians that take the stage.
- As a free agent, I had some criteria to meet and this team fitted the bill perfectly.
- If horse soldiers in action is your scene, this series fits the bill perfectly.
- The Orchardton Woods site - sold last year by Scottish Enterprise to construction group Taylor Woodrow - fitted the bill perfectly.
- You will be needing something filling by now and this savoury drink fits the bill perfectly.
- My carrot, honey and ginger soup fits the bill perfectly.
- This time, he chose another Detroit band named Blanche who fitted the bill perfectly with their pleasant country pop-rock.
- With only 10 rooms and a cosy bar, with a roaring fire in winter, it fits the bill perfectly.
- He said Hindus had been looking for a temple site for more than 20 years and a spot on the town's main business and administrative artery road fitted the bill perfectly.
- Organisers were seeking three Prince's Trust-supported businesses to attend the festival alongside national newspapers and picture agencies, and Finesse Imaging fitted the bill perfectly.
- Mauritius fitted the bill perfectly then - and it still does.
- To complement a green wall colour, why not try a bottle glass gloss style or for a modern look steel or slate style worktops will fit the bill perfectly.
- This time I wanted someone a little bit stronger and Darren fits the bill perfectly.
- Mavers fits the bill perfectly: acclaimed as a musical genius, he has not released a record in over a decade.
- For him the job fitted the bill perfectly after he was forced to retire from the fire service
- Sinead Costello fitted the bill perfectly and kindly agreed to accompany me.
- Those with an interest in hill walking will fit the bill perfectly.
Derivativesadjective In theory, that would gross me $100,000 per year or so if I worked full time, but it's rare to get consistent billable 8-hour days, every week year in year out. Example sentencesExamples - Use of company vehicles is one conspicuous example, or what type of travel and dining are considered billable is another: rigid rules for subordinates, a goodie-bag for the top guys.
- Also, the panel never resolves the fundamental question of whether the service documents were forgeries or not - a bit of a cheat if they charged three months of billable hours for their services.
- But if they lose the case, or lose the motion to be awarded costs, this law firm will have to eat untold billable hours for an entire staff of attorneys in a major Federal lawsuit that will likely amount to well over a million dollars.
- One guy, my ‘mentor’, ha, told me that certain people wanted to get rid of me, but I had something like the fifth highest billable hours in the firm, so there was hesitancy to do so.
OriginMiddle English (denoting a written list or catalogue): from Anglo-Norman French bille, probably based on medieval Latin bulla 'seal, sealed document' (see also bull2). During the Middle Ages a bill was any written statement or list, an early sense that survives in a clean bill of health. The master of a ship about to sail from a port where various infectious diseases were known to be common would be given an official certificate before leaving, to confirm that there was no infection either on board the ship or in the port. See also bulletin The Old Bill is British slang for the police, with the first written evidence arriving in the 1950s. The original Old Bill was a cartoon character of the First World War, portrayed as a grumbling Cockney soldier with a walrus moustache. The ‘police’ meaning may have arisen from subsequent use of the cartoon character, this time wearing police uniform, on posters in a Metropolitan Police recruitment campaign, and then during the Second World War giving advice on wartime security. Police officers before the Second World War often wore ‘Old Bill’ moustaches, and this could provide another connection.
RhymesBrazil, brill, Camille, chill, cookchill, dill, distil (US distill), downhill, drill, Edgehill, Estoril, fill, freewill, frill, fulfil (US fulfill), Gill, goodwill, grill, grille, hill, ill, instil, kill, krill, mil, mill, nil, Phil, pill, quadrille, quill, rill, Seville, shill, shrill, sill, skill, spadille, spill, squill, still, stock-still, swill, thill, thrill, till, trill, twill, until, uphill, will noun bɪlbɪl 1The beak of a bird, especially when it is slender, flattened, or weak, or belongs to a web-footed bird or a bird of the pigeon family. （尤指蹼足禽或鸽科鸟类的）喙，鸟嘴 Example sentencesExamples - Like wrens, these birds are insectivorous soft bills, and seeds can seriously damage their beaks and digestive systems.
- A Black-throated Green Warbler dropped into view, a tiny green caterpillar grasped in the vise of his slender bill.
- The bills of young birds are not crossed at hatching, but cross as they grow.
- But the bird has only her bill to manipulate this awkward baton, which rotates first one way, then the other as she tries to make it fit.
- He sat up in a sapling, throwing back his head, opening wide his slender bill, and singing his rising, buzzy song.
- When the forest floor is blanketed in snow, the birds use their powerful bills to dig out ant nests from tree trunks and tree bases.
- The downward-curving bill of the bird, the small head, and the swollen knees are all accurate depictions of a wader.
- Females, which probed crevices for insects, had long, slender, curved bills.
- The eyes are situated beside the bill giving the birds binocular vision.
- Orange-crowned Warblers are very small warblers with slender bills, broken eye-rings, and partial eye-lines.
- Birds with bills like that shouldn't be shy and the nutcracker is anything but.
- These tall thin birds have long necks, bills, and legs and a very wide wingspan.
- The bird has decurved slender black bill and short wings.
- The finding indicates that the skull had an external covering, most likely of hard keratin, similar to the bills of modern birds.
- The American Coot is a medium-sized bird with a white bill, yellow legs, and lobed toes.
- The youngest ate a small red fruit that a golden bird carried in its bill.
- In the case of birds, a larger bill, for example, may enable some individuals to take advantage of particular seeds.
- They often carry their prey in their bill, unlike other birds of prey that carry their prey in their talons.
- The upper mandible of the bill is dark and the lower is yellow.
- Actually, I've been planning a whole column devoted just to birds' bills and their feet, so I won't say much about them here.
Synonyms beak Scottish & Northern English neb technical mandibles - 1.1 The muzzle of a platypus.
鸭嘴兽的吻 Example sentencesExamples - The platypus uses its electro-sensitive bill to locate its food in the water.
- The bill of a platypus is soft, flexible, and leathery, unlike a bird's beak.
- They have a muzzle shaped like the bill of a duck, webbed feet, and a tail like that of a beaver.
- They include the extraordinary bill of the platypus, an egg-laying semiaquatic mammal from Australia.
- The platypus is considered a primitive mammal, yet its bill appears to be highly advanced.
- 1.2North American The peak of a cap.
〈北美〉帽尖；帽顶 Example sentencesExamples - When your team is behind late in the game, ball players turn their hats inside out and balance a baseball on the inverted bill of the cap.
- As a matter of fact my bill needed to always be curved just right and the front of the cap needed just a little dip on top behind the pretty scarlet "H".
- The Chicago Cap was the same shape as the Parti-Colored Cap, but featured horizontal (rather than vertical) stripes and a solid-colored bill.
- Side A has team logo embroidery on front and Nike Swoosh embroidery on bill while side B has team logo and Nike Swoosh on front.
- The wide variety of styles from a thin headband to a billed cap allows you to use what suits your style.
- His grip was light as silk and solid as iron, and he looked up for the first time, the billed cap no longer concealing the too-handsome face with its amused, chilling smile.
- Reversible hat features velcro adjustable strap, shapeable bill and logos on all sides.
2The point of an anchor fluke. 锚爪尖 Example sentencesExamples - The shank is hinged at the center of the crown, centerpiece, which has two pointed bills, designed to withstand great tension.
- This due to the bill that sits deep in the seabed, making the anchor rotate around this.
- Each of the plurality of flukes may be provided with an inwardly sloped bill segment at a distal end of the fluke.
- Single bill patterns are effective in penetrating weed and other sea bed vegetation.
- The flukes will be buried into the seabed. The very tip of a fluke is sometimes called the bill.
3in place names A narrow promontory. 岬，岬角 波特兰角。 Example sentencesExamples - Gay Head, a promontory in Vinyard Sound, MA, U.S. and Portland Bill, a promontory in English Channel appear to support the results of this study.
- Sitting almost on Portland Bill Branscombe Lodge Cottage is peacefully situated up a quiet track and offers spectacular views from the lighthouse tower.
- The lighthouse at Portland Bill, a famous landmark on the promontory for mariners, stands 135 feet high and was built around 1903
- The Portland Race is caused by the meeting of the tides between the Bill and the Shambles sandbank about 3 miles SE.
- For nearly 300 years a lighthouse has stood on Portland Bill to guide vessels heading for Portland and Weymouth and acting as a waymark for vessels navigating in the English Channel.
Synonyms promontory, headland, point, head, foreland, cape, peninsula, bluff, ness, naze, horn, spit, tongue Scottish mull
verb bɪlbɪl [no object](of birds, especially doves) stroke bill with bill during courtship. （鸟，尤指鸽求偶时）接嘴 Example sentencesExamples - Reaching into the past, it must recall words that will fire up the cell cycle and motivate the dormant; billing and cooing, it must recruit and educate the immature.
- And to photograph the dovecote full of multicolored pigeons, all billing, cooing, and scuffling.
- Milou and Squawk, two young males, are also beginning to exhibit courtship behavior, hanging out with each other, billing and bowing.
- Here the pairs rub bills and coo to each other before mating and going ashore to lay the eggs.
- Two birds, perfectly white, pink-beaked, dark-eyed, pigeons, settled on the ledge outside my window, billing and cooing as birds will in spring.
- The soft billing, cooing, and sometimes raucous quarreling can be heard..
Phrasesinformal Behave or talk in a very loving or sentimental way. 〈非正式〉拥吻，爱抚；喁喁情话 Example sentencesExamples - My own personal wife and I hardly ever bill and coo early in the morning any more.
- In The Abdication, they bill and coo once again-this time with spiritual fervor.
- Humans - girl and boy - can learn from the strategies of the male bird when looking for a mate with whom to bill and coo.
- The media arts are still young, but not so young, in my opinion, that we need to see more pieces which are catalogs of effects with nothing to say behind them, and then bill and coo over how wonderful they are.
OriginOld English bile, of unknown origin. noun bɪlbɪl A medieval weapon like a halberd with a hook instead of a blade. 钩镰枪（中世纪武器） Example sentencesExamples - Horse armor was developed to counteract injuries inflicted by such weapons as the bill.
- Bill hook for layering hedges or splitting withies for hurdles.
- An iron Bill hook (90 mm length). It would have been used for cutting plants.
- The trees in his orchard were hacked with a bill hook.
- I've used a bill-hook and you don't cut tree branches with it and no self-respecting shepherd would attempt to wrench branches from trees with his crook - it would not succeed and he would become a laughing stock.
OriginOld English bil, of West Germanic origin; related to German Bille 'axe'. noun bɪl the Bill" or "the Old BillBritish informal treated as singular or plural The police. Example sentencesExamples - So once again, it was the poor Old Bill that got it in the neck, rather than the CPS which was at least an equal partner in the process.
- The police were named the Old Bill after the act of parliament that empowered them.
- I couldn't hear that much outside but I think its more likely people driving past and dog walkers who often call the old bill and complain.
- Shop workers swap tills for the old Bill to stop thieves.
- Then, one day, 'the Old Bill come and hammered hardboard over the entrances.'
Origin1960s: pet form of the given name William. nounbɪlbil 1An amount of money owed for goods supplied or services rendered, set out in a printed or written statement of charges. 账单，账款 the bill for their meal came to $17 他们的餐费账款计17英镑。 he was running up a bill of hundreds of dollars Example sentencesExamples - A ‘surveyor’ then calls who will identify damp as a problem and give a quote - often running up a bill of £1,500.
- In March Phillips stayed at a Cirencester guest house, running up a bill of £266 before leaving without paying.
- You can now write checks, pay bills, invest, apply for a loan, buy or sell stock, send or receive money anywhere in the world, all electronically.
- He couldn't pay bills, check money coming into his account or make salary payment.
- At the end of last term, after continually withdrawing money and paying bills, she noticed a significant drop in her bank account, but dismissed it as poor budgeting.
- When he sat at his desk, unless he happened to be paying the bills, writing the payroll, or ordering supplies, it usually meant he was getting a break.
- My mother has never paid a bill, written a cheque or drawn money from the bank in her life.
- Shave money off your broadband bill while offering a public service to your neighbors.
- I don't write checks for my bills before I get my paycheck, that's a pretty risky practice.
- A stickler for detail, Goring actually reads the fine print on all her bills and credit cards statements to make sure she isn't being overcharged.
- This can allow you to check your balance, view past transactions, pay bills and transfer money between accounts.
- Consumers can quickly, safely and reliably pay bills and transfer money around the globe using the company's proprietary money transfer network.
- Irish customers use their phones for an average of 198 minutes a month, running up a bill of €44.28.
- In fact, I used to pay my bills, and even write some of the recipes for my cookbook with this desk.
- Unfortunately, the thieves had had a little spending spree at Comet, running up a bill of £1000 on my Amex.
- After June 2000, the Solicitor provided the services and delivered the bills on her own account as a sole practitioner.
- However, when they reached Goole the boat had already sailed, and they were brought back to Selby where, after running up a bill for storage for a few days they were sent on to Chatham by rail.
- He's still got plenty of legal bills to write checks for from that last trial.
- There were receipts, hospital bills and written statements attesting to court decisions in cases both filed by the protesters and brought against them.
- The groups say that money should go to the panel writing the spending bill for education and human services.
Synonyms invoice, account, statement, list of charges, tally 2A draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion. 议案（提交议会讨论的法律草案） a debate over the civil rights bill 对民权法案的一场辩论。 Example sentencesExamples - Fairly good discussion on the Scottish Parliament's proposed Gaelic bill on today's Lesley Riddoch show.
- Workers, who gathered in front of AKP buildings, wanted the draft bill withdrawn from parliament.
- Within a few weeks a draft bill was presented to parliament; it had two clauses later to become sections 1 and 2 of the Act of 1916.
- Labor leader Kim Beazley initially opposed the private members' bills proposed by the backbench Liberals.
- Last week, a private members' bill was presented to Parliament calling for a ban on masts near classrooms and homes.
- A discussion on a bill presented by a ‘cabinet minister’ would be put to vote after discussions.
- The Minister's presenting the bill that he was proposing to put to Parliament.
- The two bills presently before parliament contain very similar measures.
- Margo MacDonald presented her bill to the Parliament in this context.
- The government has presented around 30 bills to the parliament, which it wants to pass rapidly during final two weeks of August.
- The compensation levels will become legally binding on all airlines in the EU once the European Parliament passes the bill.
- I guess we can tell that we are at the dog-end when the best the Government can do is present to Parliament bills of this nature for consideration.
- I hope that everyone who contributed to the consultation will see their hand in the bill presented to parliament this week.
- Their counterparts in Denmark are presently preparing a bill for the Danish parliament on euro membership.
- She said that they ‘pray that parliament accepts the draft bill in the spirit in which it is intended.’
- Now there are rumblings of trying to rectify this unsatisfactory situation, with various bills proposed in parliament and seminars held on the matter.
- You have also talked about how Martin voted against 24 out of 27 private members' bills in Parliament.
- Parliament has approved a bill, proposed by Mr. Chen, that permits referendums on critical issues.
- The central bank is drafting a bill to be presented in Parliament during the budget session, which will seek to put a cap on government guarantees and public debt.
- Please note - this is a draft bill at present, so it is still in the public consultation stage.
Synonyms draft law, proposed legislation, proposal, measure 3A program of entertainment, especially at a theater. （尤指剧院、电影院的）节目单 she was top of the bill at America's leading vaudeville house 在美国的一流轻歌舞剧剧院中她总是挂头牌。 Example sentencesExamples - Anna admitted that, physically, she looks nothing like the star who remained top of the bill for 60 years.
- Antoine quickly secured four one-act plays for the evening's bill.
- Top of the bill are mobile technology and e-commerce, with speakers from Cisco, Nokia, Ericcson as well as home-grown talent.
- Top of the bill of course were kd lang and Tony Bennett.
- John Power, Antonio Forcione and Jason Lockett complete the bill in the Globe Theatre.
- The concert will feature a host of local entertainers and top of the bill will be the widely acclaimed Clare singer Larry Mc Evoy.
- James Loynes, a rising singing star from Chorley, was top of the bill.
- Top of the bill is Canny, Pembrokeshire's human beat-boxer.
- This, the only native play on the bill, proved easily the most interesting, and was the best acted.
- Bernard was top of the bill at a fun day at The Rising Sun in Burnage, to raise funds for the £5m Francis House appeal.
- Top of the bill is a recital at 3pm in the Sensory Gardens by the Army Band conducted by Captain Mark Armstrong.
- Now a fantastic bill of entertainment has been unveiled for the Celebration Ball.
- Battle of the bands winners Desid will be top of the bill at the ninth annual rock concert at George Ward School, Melksham tonight.
- On Saturday night at a big show in Castlebar Thomas Moran boxed the home club's John Waldron on the top of the bill and it was the Westport man who came out on top.
- In the unusually smelly dressing room, there were some photocopies of some old bills from the theatre from Georgian times.
- It can put you top of the bill at the theatre, if it wasn't for Boycie I wouldn't be doing that.
- Also on the bill are theatre productions, art exhibitions and arts and culture workshops.
- The 2004 line-up looks even more impressive and top of the bill are two very talented singer-songwriters.
- Berry wasn't top of the bill, and I remember his thoughts on that issue reverberated throughout the evening.
- On the bill are two very different but artistically compatible plays to be performed in repertory and an American classic that hasn't been staged in Kansas City in decades.
Synonyms programme, programme of entertainment, listing, list, line-up 4North American A banknote; a piece of paper money. 一张10美元钞票。 Example sentencesExamples - She dug into the pockets of her dirty tan coat and withdrew a ten-dollar bill.
- I held out a hand jokingly but to my surprise he actually gave the ten-dollar bill to me.
- Clara led the boy to his parents and gave them a ten-dollar bill.
- Travis smiles and then puts a ten-dollar bill on the table.
- He pulled out the money his father had given him to pay for the mare, and peeled off a ten-dollar bill.
- A scarf and a ten-dollar bill, to be put in my savings account.
- Ronald pulls out his wallet and peels off a ten-dollar bill, giving it to the younger man along with his ticket.
- Every one of them had at least five dollars in them, except three, which had ten dollar bills folded in the cards.
- He had laid the mail on the table already, bills and bank notes separated from his own personal correspondence.
- She quickly withdrew money from her backpack, folding two ten dollar bills into her pocket.
- Michael pulled out two twenty's and a ten-dollar bill and placed it in front of Tom.
- They also chose to pull all existing dollar bills and pound notes from circulation to force their people to use the coins.
- Then he and Cath both slapped a ten-dollar bill on the table and headed out the door.
- At the door into the airport, Abbey stopped to slip the kind flight attendant two crisp ten-dollar bills.
- No, I'll say I found a ten-dollar bill on the street last week, because that's also true.
- Gordon dug in a leather wallet and procured nineteen ten-dollar bills.
- She opened the wallet and took out a twenty-dollar bill and three ten-dollar bills.
- He walks up to one of the machines, inserts a ten-dollar bill in the appropriate slot and presses some green illuminated number pad.
- Damry slipped the clerk a ten-dollar bill and thanked him, then smiled at her friend.
- Suddenly providence tugged at H.E. Crumpled up on the curb lay a ten-dollar bill.
5A poster or handbill. 招贴，海报；传单 the circus promoters were posting bills all over town Example sentencesExamples - Old Drury Lane has called me in, with jealousy to cover 'em, And sent me round with their own bills, to go and plaster over 'em.
- Traffic signboards are blatantly misused for sticking posters and bills.
- Well, first we did some illegal bill postering and then we stole some milk crates.
- Del Toro's wood-plank facade is now scuffed and plastered with concert bills, no sign or door in sight.
- No controls existed, and as a result adverts and theatre bills were plastered on every available space - hoardings, end walls of buildings, fences.
- Stop and think about that the next time you see one of those forbidding Post No Bills warnings stenciled on fences and construction sites or on any other vacant canvas in New York that isnt already covered by posters.
Synonyms poster, advertisement, public notice, announcement
verbbɪlbil [with object]1List (a person or event) in a program. 把（人或项目）列入节目单，安排…演出，预定 they were billed to appear but didn't show up 按计划他们是要出场的，但没有露面。 Example sentencesExamples - There has not been too much news from the Killoran Clan gatherings of late, but all that has now changed as another re-union is billed for October of this year.
- Cinema programmes, sports meetings, and dances; all are billed here and none appears with more consistent regularity than that saviour of so many club bank deficits - the whist drive.
- The Baggies' boss, who billed the duel with Wanderers as the biggest game of his Premiership career, frowned at the loss of two vital survival points.
- He is also billed to speak at a fundraising dinner in Toronto during the same trip; the Canadian government has placed no restrictions in his path.
- As I predicted, although the concert was billed to start at 7.45 it didn't start until after 8.
- He was billed after star Dana Andrews, leading lady Linda Darnell and second male lead Sterling Hayden.
- Sight seeing and daily meetings are billed, with a Grand Black Tie event on the final night.
- He has put in every effort to ensure that the event billed the ‘Dame Mary Peters Weekend’ is a resounding success.
- Navin Samarasinghe also entered the final of the men's open event where he is billed to do battle with the hardened Janaka Suwaris.
- If he had known the secret all along, he never would have spent the 1990s performing in American restaurants where he was billed below the BBQ ribs.
- ‘It happened to Vuyani Bungu when he was billed in the same tournament with Hamed and then ultimately fought him,’ he said.
- He is billed for a performance at Club Amaruzu in Queens, New York on October 24 alongside veteran reggae crooner Coco Tea and dancehall star Capleton.
- According to the team manager Arjun Dharmadasa, the Lankan team is billed to play Japan on Dec.18.
- The third billed artist, Jonny Regan, did not have a lot to do and I wondered why he had been given such prominence, in view of the fact that there were others in the cast who, if not given top billing, should at least have been featured.
- Out of the nine events which were billed for the last day, India picked up four titles and were followed by Sri Lanka and Pakistan who took three and two titles, respectively.
- Mungo Jerry were also billed to play but, sadly, decided not to.
- The occasion is billed to be unique, the mood motivational and the message, a powerful assertion of the value of self - belief.
- The result - when the allure of the biggie DJ wears thin, as it has recently, there's nothing to fill the gaps between the next highly billed event.
- Further spice is added with the event being billed in some quarters as a battle royal between Manchester and Merseyside.
Synonyms advertise, promote, announce, post, give advance notice of, put up in lights - 1.1bill someone/something as Describe someone or something in a particular, usually promotional, way, especially as a means of advertisement.
he was billed as “the new Sean Connery.” 他被作为“肖恩·康纳里再世”来宣传。 Example sentencesExamples - The foundation bills the report as a ‘wake-up call for all Canadians, especially those living outside major urban centres, to take a look at their communities and their lifestyles.’
- Well the Government is billing the budget as further proof of its commitment to Australia's national security.
- Shapiro bills the series as an unglamorous look at life in the clink and the power of music as a means of rehabilitation.
- On their website, they're running ads and billing them as ‘news’.
- The introduction bills the book as an effort to ‘set the record straight,’ but it is actually an attempt to push the record far to the right.
- But a spokeswoman for DDF said although they had billed their product as being similar to Botox treatment, it did not contain any potentially harmful chemicals.
- The society bills its guide as a ‘must-read for all armchair supporters’ and claims that even the most over-enthusiastic spectator should not need to be stretchered off mid-match.
- Meanwhile, completing the billing for the day are Doves, whose latest album ‘The Last Broadcast’ was number one in the UK for three weeks.
- Effectively billing her book as an anti-Lonely Planet, Appelbe has gathered and archived the secret things that make Vancouver unique.
- Even the advertising campaign on television is billing the tie as a massacre, happily chirruping: ‘If you thought the cricket was bad…‘
- Dr Andrew Walker, a senior lecturer in health economics at Glasgow University, said: ‘It is very hard to see this as being the step change that it was billed as.’
- Drudge bills this story as a denial, but it isn't quite.
- In 1870 the birds were billed as ‘doomed to certain extinction ‘and by 1977 they seemed technically extinct.’
- Now the actual work is billed as ‘Fa'afafine ’, so there will be people coming to this show expecting to learn more about fa'afine.
- The attorney general bills this measure as a necessary tactic in the war against terrorism, but it is unlikely to prevent a future terrorist attack or snare any key members of terrorist groups intent upon doing damage to this country.
- They billed their approach as a bold use of the legislation, saying it was a response to persistent harassment of residents by travellers.
- This is a cunning move that works in its favour, as by billing the movie as a straight kidnap cum psychological thriller, Gaylene Preston is able to brilliantly subvert audience expectations.
- Organisers are billing this event as a BIlingual festival and a Celtic celebration.
- They are billing the clash as a unique partnership between the rugby clubs, aiming to create an exciting and dynamic future for rugby league in the Bay.
- The sign outside bills Blue Mountain as a ‘Jamaican and Canadian food’ restaurant, using the curious terminology more frequently associated with ‘Chinese and Canadian’ joints.
- Dave's business card bills him as ‘the original jester… bluer than blue’.
Synonyms advertise, promote, announce, post, give advance notice of, put up in lights describe as, call, style, label, dub, designate, pronounce
2Send a note of charges to (someone) 给…开账单，要求…支付 we shall be billing them for the damage caused 我们将要求他们支付损失费用。 with two objects he had been billed $3,000 for his license 他为取得执照交了3，000英镑。 Example sentencesExamples - In the past 12 months, have you talked to any of the following to see if you could pay a lower price than they billed you, or wanted to bill you?
- The doctor will retain the sort of freedom to choose how they bill, and there'll be a reward for them for bulk billing pensioners and card holders, there's no doubt about that.
- It is important to check the meter number to ensure the new supplier is billing you for the correct meter.
- Shivute attributed this to the fact that some councils buy water at a high tariff and then bill their customers at a lower rate, which he said creates a discrepancy.
- There's nothing more important than accuracy when it comes to billing patients and insurers for psychological services, say ethics experts.
- Costs and profits are estimated over the life of the deal, and as work is completed the customer is billed on a monthly or quarterly basis.
- Cell phone records show that he was talking at the time of the accident, and time records reflect that he was billing a client for the time he was talking.
- Here's how: Let's say you are billed on the first of the month and your payment is due on the 25th.
- A strategic zapper logs a driver's car every time he passes a certain point and he is billed every month accordingly.
- Is Joe Customer being billed for the service or product that he receives?
- British gas have just billed me out of the blue for over £190 worth of Electricity for the past 2 years!
- Cars can now be equipped with electronic devices that emit signals relayed to highway monitors, and car owners are billed for their highway usage.
- We work with a young group of engineers who weren't billing us on a regular basis.
- Like the doctor who can give you medicine while you're in a coma… and bill you for it!
- If your client rents inventory space, find out how the client is billed for inventory storage.
- His troops are trying to convert customers to a pay-as-you-go utility model where IBM turns on the processing power and customers are billed based on how much they use.
- Lawson Whyte calculate costs on a percentage of the client budget for larger products, while for smaller works the client is either billed by the hour or a lump sum is agreed in advance.
- Otherwise, you'll have to e-mail the images to yourself, and the wireless carriers will bill you.
- US agencies bill models for expenses, while Irish agencies bill the clients.
- He suggested billing clients via e-mail, rather than by regular mail as his department was doing at the time.
Synonyms send an invoice to, invoice, charge, debit, send a statement to - 2.1 Charge (a sum of money)
索价，收取（费用） 我们索价40万英镑。 Example sentencesExamples - I hadn't given anyone my number in this town, except the usual people who bill my living expenses.
- Cllr Michelle Mulherin said she knew some people levied with commercial water charges who felt they were unfairly billed.
- Last year it settled charges that it illegally billed excessive fees and violated consumer protection regulations.
- He believes that billed revenue this year will be four times last year's figure.
- If you accept credit card payments, bill the buyer's credit card account only when you're ready to ship the product.
- User-pays charges will be billed separately by councils and, of course, will continue to include GST.
- His firm charged $735, 398 for the work, billing Taylor's time at $400 an hour.
- But Ms Probert said there were two sides to the story and she had also heard that PCTs had been unable to release the money because they had not been properly billed.
- This can make physicians in small practices loathe to take on deaf patients, as they may lose money once they have billed insurance and paid for an interpreter.
- Taylor, of Upper Baggot St, Dublin was billed €12,600 for ‘an annual creative fee’.
- The catch is that any other usage will be billed at whatever tariffs the relevant hotspot owner charges, so no gratis web surfing or emailing, we're afraid.
- Students who don't pay their fees by the end of January will be billed a two per cent interest charge every month until they pay their tuition.
Synonyms send an invoice to, invoice, charge, debit, send a statement to
PhrasesBe suitable for a particular purpose. 符合要求，适合需要 a partner is an ally or a companion, and you don't seem to fit the bill Example sentencesExamples - He said Hindus had been looking for a temple site for more than 20 years and a spot on the town's main business and administrative artery road fitted the bill perfectly.
- The Orchardton Woods site - sold last year by Scottish Enterprise to construction group Taylor Woodrow - fitted the bill perfectly.
- For him the job fitted the bill perfectly after he was forced to retire from the fire service
- Mauritius fitted the bill perfectly then - and it still does.
- Cecil reportedly sees her more of an Oaks-type and tomorrow's race, over nine furlongs, should fit the bill perfectly.
- With only 10 rooms and a cosy bar, with a roaring fire in winter, it fits the bill perfectly.
- Not entirely without surprise, serendipity had its way with me and I stumbled on one of my much-loved poems, by Henry Reed, that fitted the bill perfectly.
- This time I wanted someone a little bit stronger and Darren fits the bill perfectly.
- My carrot, honey and ginger soup fits the bill perfectly.
- They, or in fact we, are the sorts of people who feel the need to do something compulsively, and blogging fits the bill perfectly.
- To complement a green wall colour, why not try a bottle glass gloss style or for a modern look steel or slate style worktops will fit the bill perfectly.
- Organisers were seeking three Prince's Trust-supported businesses to attend the festival alongside national newspapers and picture agencies, and Finesse Imaging fitted the bill perfectly.
- As a free agent, I had some criteria to meet and this team fitted the bill perfectly.
- You will be needing something filling by now and this savoury drink fits the bill perfectly.
- Mavers fits the bill perfectly: acclaimed as a musical genius, he has not released a record in over a decade.
- If horse soldiers in action is your scene, this series fits the bill perfectly.
- This time, he chose another Detroit band named Blanche who fitted the bill perfectly with their pleasant country pop-rock.
- Sinead Costello fitted the bill perfectly and kindly agreed to accompany me.
- Those with an interest in hill walking will fit the bill perfectly.
- The show never fails to entertain, and the small restaurant/bar perfectly fits the bill for the eclectic mix of musicians that take the stage.
OriginMiddle English (denoting a written list or catalog): from Anglo-Norman French bille, probably based on medieval Latin bulla ‘seal, sealed document’ (see also bull). nounbɪlbil 1The beak of a bird, especially when it is slender, flattened, or weak, or belongs to a web-footed bird or a bird of the pigeon family. （尤指蹼足禽或鸽科鸟类的）喙，鸟嘴 Example sentencesExamples - They often carry their prey in their bill, unlike other birds of prey that carry their prey in their talons.
- The finding indicates that the skull had an external covering, most likely of hard keratin, similar to the bills of modern birds.
- The upper mandible of the bill is dark and the lower is yellow.
- The youngest ate a small red fruit that a golden bird carried in its bill.
- The downward-curving bill of the bird, the small head, and the swollen knees are all accurate depictions of a wader.
- But the bird has only her bill to manipulate this awkward baton, which rotates first one way, then the other as she tries to make it fit.
- The bills of young birds are not crossed at hatching, but cross as they grow.
- Actually, I've been planning a whole column devoted just to birds' bills and their feet, so I won't say much about them here.
- The eyes are situated beside the bill giving the birds binocular vision.
- A Black-throated Green Warbler dropped into view, a tiny green caterpillar grasped in the vise of his slender bill.
- Like wrens, these birds are insectivorous soft bills, and seeds can seriously damage their beaks and digestive systems.
- He sat up in a sapling, throwing back his head, opening wide his slender bill, and singing his rising, buzzy song.
- The American Coot is a medium-sized bird with a white bill, yellow legs, and lobed toes.
- Birds with bills like that shouldn't be shy and the nutcracker is anything but.
- Females, which probed crevices for insects, had long, slender, curved bills.
- When the forest floor is blanketed in snow, the birds use their powerful bills to dig out ant nests from tree trunks and tree bases.
- In the case of birds, a larger bill, for example, may enable some individuals to take advantage of particular seeds.
- The bird has decurved slender black bill and short wings.
- Orange-crowned Warblers are very small warblers with slender bills, broken eye-rings, and partial eye-lines.
- These tall thin birds have long necks, bills, and legs and a very wide wingspan.
- 1.1 The muzzle of a platypus.
鸭嘴兽的吻 Example sentencesExamples - The platypus is considered a primitive mammal, yet its bill appears to be highly advanced.
- The platypus uses its electro-sensitive bill to locate its food in the water.
- They have a muzzle shaped like the bill of a duck, webbed feet, and a tail like that of a beaver.
- They include the extraordinary bill of the platypus, an egg-laying semiaquatic mammal from Australia.
- The bill of a platypus is soft, flexible, and leathery, unlike a bird's beak.
- 1.2 The point of an anchor fluke.
锚爪尖 Example sentencesExamples - This due to the bill that sits deep in the seabed, making the anchor rotate around this.
- Each of the plurality of flukes may be provided with an inwardly sloped bill segment at a distal end of the fluke.
- Single bill patterns are effective in penetrating weed and other sea bed vegetation.
- The shank is hinged at the center of the crown, centerpiece, which has two pointed bills, designed to withstand great tension.
- The flukes will be buried into the seabed. The very tip of a fluke is sometimes called the bill.
- 1.3North American A stiff brim at the front of a cap.
Example sentencesExamples - The FP126 has a contrasting sandwich bill and piping over the back arc that also add to its appeal.
- Some of them are almost like a beanie with a bill in front.
- Folks, the bill is on the front for reason, to shade your face from the sun.
- It offers a different look than a typical sandwich bill, where a contrasting color is inserted in the middle of the edge of the brim.
- It was one of those close-fitting caps with a very small cloth bill in front.
verbbɪlbil [no object](of birds, especially doves) stroke bill with bill during courtship. （鸟，尤指鸽求偶时）接嘴 Example sentencesExamples - And to photograph the dovecote full of multicolored pigeons, all billing, cooing, and scuffling.
- Reaching into the past, it must recall words that will fire up the cell cycle and motivate the dormant; billing and cooing, it must recruit and educate the immature.
- The soft billing, cooing, and sometimes raucous quarreling can be heard..
- Here the pairs rub bills and coo to each other before mating and going ashore to lay the eggs.
- Two birds, perfectly white, pink-beaked, dark-eyed, pigeons, settled on the ledge outside my window, billing and cooing as birds will in spring.
- Milou and Squawk, two young males, are also beginning to exhibit courtship behavior, hanging out with each other, billing and bowing.
Phrasesinformal Exchange caresses or affectionate words; behave or talk in a very loving or sentimental way. 〈非正式〉拥吻，爱抚；喁喁情话 Example sentencesExamples - The media arts are still young, but not so young, in my opinion, that we need to see more pieces which are catalogs of effects with nothing to say behind them, and then bill and coo over how wonderful they are.
- Humans - girl and boy - can learn from the strategies of the male bird when looking for a mate with whom to bill and coo.
- In The Abdication, they bill and coo once again-this time with spiritual fervor.
- My own personal wife and I hardly ever bill and coo early in the morning any more.
OriginOld English bile, of unknown origin. nounbɪlbil A medieval weapon like a halberd with a hook instead of a blade. 钩镰枪（中世纪武器） Example sentencesExamples - Horse armor was developed to counteract injuries inflicted by such weapons as the bill.
- Bill hook for layering hedges or splitting withies for hurdles.
- I've used a bill-hook and you don't cut tree branches with it and no self-respecting shepherd would attempt to wrench branches from trees with his crook - it would not succeed and he would become a laughing stock.
- An iron Bill hook (90 mm length). It would have been used for cutting plants.
- The trees in his orchard were hacked with a bill hook.
OriginOld English bil, of West Germanic origin; related to German Bille ‘ax’. |