silk
US: /ˈsɪɫk/
UK: /sˈɪlk/
UK: /sˈɪlk/
English Vietnamese dictionary
silk /silk/
- danh từ
- tơ, chỉ tơ
- tơ nhện
- lụa
- (số nhiều) quần áo lụa
- (thông tục) luật sư hoàng gia (Anh)
- to take silk: được phong làm luật sư hoàng gia
- nước ngọc (độ óng ánh của ngọc)
- (định ngữ) (bằng) tơ
- silk stockings: bít tất tơ
- to hit the silk
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (quân sự), (từ lóng) nhảy dù ra khỏi máy bay
- to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- ít bột vẫn gột nên hồ
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [U] fine soft thread produced by SILKWORMS
2 [U] a fine smooth fabric made from silk thread: a silk blouse + silk stockings + made of pure silk + Her skin was as smooth as silk.
See also -
3 [U] silk thread used for sewing
4 (silks) [pl.] clothes made of silk, especially the coloured shirts worn by people riding horses in a race (= JOCKEYS)
5 [C] (BrE, law) a type of lawyer who represents the government (= a King's/Queen's counsel): to take silk (= to become this type of lawyer)
Idioms: make a silk purse out of a sow's ear to succeed in making sth good out of material that does not seem very good at all
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
heavy | delicate, fine, thin | soft | pure | artificial | bright
the bright silks of saris
| rich
a drawing room decorated in rich blue and purple silks
| faded | watered | raw | Chinese, Thai, etc.
VERB + SILK
produce
fine silks produced in Italy
| spin, weave | be lined with, be trimmed with
SILK + NOUN
industry, mill
PREP.
in ~
(= wearing clothes made of silk)ladies in silks and satins
| of ~
an evening dress of pure white silk
Concise English dictionary
silkssɪlk
noun
+a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae
+fibers from silkworm cocoons provide threads for knitting
