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Distaff

발음 /ˈdɪstɑːf/ · 품사 명사 (noun)

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영어 정의

A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist..

의미별 영어 정의

A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist.
The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun.
Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only.
A race for female horses only.
(also collective) A woman, or women considered as a group.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of women.
Of the maternal side of a family.

예문

Then hadſt thou had an excellent head of haire. […] Excellent, it hangs like flax on a diſtaffe: & I hope to ſee a huſwife take thee between her legs, & ſpin it off.

I muſt change armes at home, and giue the diſtaffe Into my Husbands hands, […]

But O, passenger, if thou art desirous to know the cause of these fatal discomposures, of this inextricable war, truly I must deal plainly: I cannot resolve thee herein to any full satisfaction. Grievances there were, I must confess, and some incongruities in my civil government, (wherein, some say, the crozier, some say, the distaff was too busy,) but I little thought, God knows, that those grievances required a redress this way.

[C]an I ſooth Tyranny? Seem pleas'd to ſee my Royal Maſter murther'd, His crown uſurp'd, a Diſtaff in the Throne [Anne, Queen of Great Britain], A Council made up of ſuch as dare not ſpeak, And could not if they durſt; […]

"[…] Where is our little distaff member this morning?" "I had to send her home. She came to work this morning in her nightgown." Ignatius frowned and said, "I do not understand why she was sent away. After all, we are quite informal here. We are one big family. I only hope that you have not damaged her morale."

Henry knew. If he were blackballed by this distaff Mafia, he was doomed: Endless, but always justifiable, delays would occur in the work he wanted typed.

Women predominate not only, I think, because of matriarchal considerations, or claims to divine paternity, but also because Boiotian tradition leans in every way toward the distaff side.

Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral— […] They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on the distaff side.

단어 변화형

distaffs
distaves
distaffe

distaff 동의어

distaff 반의어

Distaff 사용 팁

distaff의 의미, 어조와 문법이 전체 문장에 맞을 때 사용하세요. 동의어라도 모든 문장에서 바로 바꿔 쓸 수 있는 것은 아닙니다.

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자주 묻는 질문

distaff의 뜻은 무엇인가요?

현재 검증된 한국어 뜻은 준비 중이며 영어 정의는 “A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist.”입니다.

distaff의 동의어는 무엇인가요?

주요 동의어는 female, maternal, feminine입니다.

distaff의 반의어는 무엇인가요?

가능한 반의어는 male, paternal, spear입니다.

distaff를 문장에서 어떻게 쓰나요?