pleat
英 [pliːt]
美 [plit]
助記提示
1. Pleat, plait, are essentially the same word.
2. pleat <=====> plait.
3. plic- / plicat- / plict- "fold, twist" => pleat, plait.
4. a variant of plait.
中文詞源
英文詞源
- pleat
- pleat: [14] Pleat, plait, and plight ‘predicament’ are essentially the same word, but have become differentiated over the centuries. All three go back to Vulgar Latin *plicitum or *plictum ‘fold’, a noun use of the past participle of Latin plicāre ‘fold’ (source of English ply). This became Old French pleit, which was originally borrowed into English as plete ‘fold’. Plete was to become modern English pleat, but at first it was used only as a verb.
For the noun, English borrowed pleit as plait [15] ‘fold’, which did not begin to acquire its modern English meaning ‘braid’ until the 16th century. The Anglo- Norman version of pleit was plit, which gave English plight [14]. This too originally meant ‘fold’, and the sense ‘predicament’ was presumably due to the influence of the other (completely unrelated) English word plight (see PLEDGE), which as a noun in Old and Middle English meant ‘danger’, but is now mainly encountered in the expression ‘plight one’s troth’.
=> fold, plait, plight, ply - pleat (v.)
- 1560s, used as the verb version of plait (n.) and probably representing an alternative pronunciation. Related: Pleated; pleating.
- pleat (n.)
- "a fold," 1580s, variant of plait (n.). With a gap in the printed record 17c.-18c., but probably it was in continuous oral use.
雙語例句
- 1. Each pleat was stitched in place by hand.
- 每條褶襇都是手工縫製到位的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. In an effort to look older she has pinned her fair hair into a French pleat.
- 為了看上去顯得成熟一些,她把金發別成了一個法式髻。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. You can pleat palm fronds to make huts, umbrellas and baskets.
- 人們可以把棕櫚葉折疊起來蓋棚屋, 製傘,編籃子.
來自百科語句
- 4. To pleat or gather ( fabric ) into a ruffle.
- 給(織物)打褶襇,給 ( 織物 ) 飾褶邊.
來自互聯網
- 5. Now we're going to pleat the backside.
- 現在我們將要開始製作背後的褶.
來自互聯網