象鼻子 — meaning in English
xiàng bí zi
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English meaning
Senses
象鼻子 is used for these senses in English:
- squinch (architecture) A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal to a circular structure, as when a dome is constructed on top of a square room.
- trunk The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
trunk — full definition
- verb To cut something short or reduce it drastically.
- verb In telecoms, to carry many signals together over a shared set of lines.