butterfly

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 [ˈbʌ.tə.flaɪ]    美 [ˈbʌ.ɾɚ.flaɪ]|[ˈbʌ.ɾə.flɑɪ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
    — It is true. I am like a butterfly, and I shall only live a little while.
  2. A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed. attributive
    — butterfly tape; butterfly bandage; butterfly strips
  3. The butterfly stroke.
  4. Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic).
  5. Ellipsis of butterflies in one’s stomach (“A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach”). abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,in-plural
    — I get terrible butterflies before an exam.
  6. Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable. archaic
    — He was affable; therefore he was frivolous. The women liked him; therefore he was a butterfly.
  7. A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
  8. A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
    — One potential butterfly could be JFK having another son the year after the POD instead of a daughter.
  9. A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.
  10. A person who changes partners frequently.
    — What does it mean to be a butterfly in Pattaya? It means, just like a butterfly briefly visits many flowers, you will briefly visit many different girls.
  11. A safety link or detaching hook above the cage attached to the winding rope to prevent the cage from being overwound.
  12. party switcher; turncoat. Philippine,Philippines,derogatory,often
动词 v.
  1. To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly. transitive
    — butterflied shrimp
  2. To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it. transitive
    — After everyone had obeyed his commands, the lieutenant motioned for two medics that now appeared to enter the room and attend to Dr. Carter. They bandaged him up, butterflying some of the deeper gashes and gave him a couple of shots.
  3. To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect. transitive
    — Pearl Harbor not happening would've butterflied Taylor Swift.

词形变化

butterflies plural butterflies present,singular,third-person butterflying participle,present butterflied participle,past butterflied past

词汇关系

衍生词
alfalfa butterfly alpine butterfly bend alpine butterfly knot apefly bird-winged butterfly break a butterfly on a wheel break a butterfly on the wheel break a butterfly upon a wheel break a butterfly upon the wheel brush-footed butterfly butterflier butterflies in one's stomach butterfly adder butterfly agave butterfly app butterfly ballot butterfly banners butterfly bat butterfly bend butterfly blenny butterfly bomb butterfly bush butterfly cake butterfly chair butterfly child butterfly clam butterfly clip butterfly cod butterfly collector butterfly connector butterfly crab butterfly dam butterfly damper butterfly door butterfly effect butterfly fish butterflyfish butterfly flower butterfly ginger butterfly grip butterfly hinge butterfly keyboard butterfly kick butterfly kiss butterfly knife butterfly knot butterfly-knotted butterflylike butterfly lily butterfly loop butterfly milkweed butterfly mine butterfly mussel butterfly needle butterfly net butterfly nut butterfly orchid butterfly pea butterfly plant butterfly position butterfly ray butterfly roof butterfly screw butterfly shell butterfly skin butterfly sleeve butterfly stitch butterfly stroke butterfly syringe butterfly table butterfly tulip butterfly upon a wheel butterfly valve butterfly watching butterfly weed butterfly window cabbage butterfly California dogface butterfly comma butterfly emperor butterfly float like a butterfly gossamer-winged butterfly harvester butterfly iron butterfly Kamehameha butterfly lime butterfly map butterfly milkweed butterfly monarch butterfly moth butterfly nettle tree butterfly owl butterfly paper kite butterfly peacock butterfly sea butterfly semicolon butterfly snout butterfly social butterfly spinal butterfly ray sulfur butterfly sulphur butterfly thistle butterfly Troilus butterfly Ursula butterfly zebra butterfly
相关词
caterpillar flutterby moth

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Hellenic *gʷous
Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs)
Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *tuh₂rós
Proto-Hellenic *tūrós
Ancient Greek τυρός (turós)
Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron)bor.
Latin būtȳrumbor.
Proto-West Germanic *buterā
Old English butere
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ
Proto-West Germanic *fleugā
Old English flēoge
Old English buterflēoge
Middle English boterflye
English butterfly
From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English buterflēoge, equivalent to butter + fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey-thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-excretor”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly.
An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been Old English butor- (“beater”), a mutation of bēatan (“to beat”), but this would not explain the cognates in other languages or the other names formed with milk products.
Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Hellenic *gʷous
Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs)
Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *tuh₂rós
Proto-Hellenic *tūrós
Ancient Greek τυρός (turós)
Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron)bor.
Latin būtȳrumbor.
Proto-West Germanic *buterā
Old English butere
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ
Proto-West Germanic *fleugā
Old English flēoge
Old English buterflēoge
Middle English boterflye
English butterfly
From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English buterflēoge, equivalent to butter + fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey-thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-excretor”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly.
An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been Old English butor- (“beater”), a mutation of bēatan (“to beat”), but this would not explain the cognates in other languages or the other names formed with milk products.
Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”).
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