🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯
檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
- Intervention 240
- diminuendo 114
- electric bike 71
- burrer 31
- armagh 47
- inhumane 253
- stability 511
- shave 584
- estimate 798
- scion 82
- accent 563
- legalize 94
- cdre 49
- scuba 78
- viscid 48
- defence 377
- verve 68
- lesson 269
- homegrown 148
- loose cannon 61
- attenuate 122
- brontosaurus 129
- Vulnerability 114
- chivalrous 111
- tourney 63
- Feasibility 58
- sponge bag 55
- primula 45
- Reassure 183
- staleness 86
- Missouri 55
- high jinks 61
- belling 31
- antithetical 135
- sids 57
- discussion 499
- crony 124
- stock 619
- dialectical 80
- liposuction 65
- bestir 67
- punctuate 69
- brick and mortar 65
- bud 1230
- facetious 112
- scalawag 80
- scotties 27
- Retail 172
- flourishy 41
- myopia 78
- optometry 48
- confuse 497
- call 427
- objection 497
- honey 545
- sore 570
- winter 131
- support 537
- columnist 117
- antilogarithm 45
- predict 548
- unifies 26
- pedophilia 77
- larval 45
- Bean counter 31
- kindliness 58
- glaciers 47
- backcomb 59
- submerge 506
- lobotomy 77
- Depraved 61
- useless 522
- Dissuade 84
- low season 44
- cash cow 91
- tagline 49
- eyepiece 127
- Adjustment 214
- newsgroup 54
- Bald 189
- Uprising 41
- mother 179
- Skivvies 51
- -ate 52
- bring forward 89
- train 320
- zamindar 43
- endosperm 81
- stealth 194
- Malaysia 119
- by no stretch of the imagination 6
- vexed 79
- slipcover 65
- housecoat 65
- inflectional 53
- Barter 70
- villainies 32
- beggar 433
- sabotage 263
- benefitting 47
- Loch Ness Monster 51
- Licence 258
- module 67
- trapt 37
- overspending 35
- back 399
- abrasive 145
- revitalise 100
- for now 62
- muttering 182
- determine 550
- saturn 52
- to coin a phrase 55
- Praising 34
- yolk 59
- snap 610
- speedy 71
- eisteddfod 101
- neglect 570
- buts 59
- chippiest 38
- fatal 511
- parabola 81
- bloodshed 127
- Gree 18
- subversion 228
- Beginnings 38
- plutocracies 26
- consulted 59
- arouse 470
- Laminate 20
- directorial 95
- hals 44
- Boiler 13
- advertise 470
- cosmetic 180
- ourself 55
- terror 551
- norse 71
- Reaching 57
- whisper 530
- bitching 57
- syphilis 56
- Pedigree 182
- Organize 284
- creature 551
- embodied 49
- leech 142
- rounding 29
- armament 117
- syllabic 48
- Designed 23
- loopiest 35
- bookless 43
- handyman 120
- canoeing 81
- foreign 258
- suffocating 37
- sizzle 148
- newsreel 57
- folksier 57
- wannabee 35
- knit 474
- ex 344
- Borne 78
- intrude 139
- doable 102
- fairway 120
- hulk 82
- regularly 454
- paul 50
- cost an arm and a leg 92
- dream 522
- dreamlike 86
- get down to brass tacks 39
- Uniform 149
- bisect 133
- the straight and narrow 68
- aerosol 101
- praline 73
- Repent 252
- with some justification 73
- dyed in the wool 78
- Libra 63
- turn a deaf ear 58
- drive a hard bargain 77
- Cathedral 76
- underrate 137
- uncharted territory 36
- rook 59
- April Fools' Day 159
- faction 232
- commonsense 74
- brew 260
- wake 285
- the great outdoors 27
- blowziest 39
- further education 104
- fill the bill 34
- constitutionalist 50
- Pageant 148
- australasia 84
- Coin 60
- curvaceous 126
- tractor 542
- cochineal 87
- extraterrestrial 108
- extended family 145
- carpet bombing 114
- asleep 502
- Deliberation 35
- earth-shattering 69
- traffic island 38
- anesthesiologist 106
- fire retardant 114
- saturation point 42
- make do 8
- Extracurricular 198
- Property 241
- uh 98
- sleepwalk 77
- borough 178
- improvisational 61
- reactionaryism 32
- switchblade 67
- dovish 95
- rive 80
- disclosure 248
- gastroenteritis 92
- fibre 444
- immune system 100
- furore 135
- price fixing 132
- incubation 56
- transformation 512
- dubbing 50
- Mistreat 104
- sentimentality 65
- Down syndrome 118
- affectionately 44
- Tumultuous 81
- Christmas card 89
- levelheaded 65
- impetus 136
- olympic 101
- sift 306
- pale into insignificance 34
- alliteratively 43
- pick up on 96
- guest worker 113
- wattled 31
- first family 78
- troubleshooter 57
- discontinuance 91
- versification 46
- curl 562
- wade 372
- Non 116
- Stitch 135
- qtr. 52
- inframarginal 42
- If anything 35
- mantling 29
- due 522
- double bill 98
- oyer 42
- mock 297
- vulnerability 140
- Repeatedly 162
- cheeky 146
- depart this life 70
- scorch 129
- gumshoe 142
- Chairperson 173
- accelerometer 59
- feasible 621
- accompany 497
- black economy 71
- Confrontation 92
- come around 94
- imprimatur 63
- blank verse 123
- uncontaminated 41
- every other 40
- all-inclusive 170
- Discontinuing 51
- cotton to 85
- uneatable 45
- reality check 42
- oversleep 84
- disengagement 74
- vulnerable 284
- circulator 49
- purposely 142
- noncombatant 67
- bean sprouts 62
- alchemist 94
- ginger beer 70
- dressing room 116
- Beholder 6
- carboniferous 63
- factual 156
- breathability 53
- serviceperson 51
- sifting 45
- explainer 85
- pratfall 64
- tractoration 44
- cantilevered 70
- digitalization 64
- drumbeat 149
- robe 531
- fijian 88
- superior 530
- nitty 43
- rejoice in 37
- commingle 56
- victorianism 39
- half cocked 135
- cutting room 111
- exponentially 69
- communicating 59
- fedora 119
- half price 114
- contract out 105
- cherry 467
- Creditworthy 83
- Eye shadow 39
- adventuristic 47
- desalination 89
- multifarious 122
- congeniality 77
- postdocs 60
- inconvenient 119
- priceless 57
- Proofreading 99
- mousetrapping 32
- mosaicist 58
- irreplaceable 77
- bear witness 45
- boatbuilding 62
- glad-hand 81
- flight-test 71
- culotte 77
- kleptocratic 33
- photographic 431
- ventilation 253
- oddly 210
- April Fool 96
- date stamp 82
- restrictions 51
- salesmanship 52
- mongoose 62
- giddy 201
- novelettist 40
- equality 477
- steepen 68
- evaporate 516
- violator 32
- hold out on 47
- Nelly 79
- punchball 40
- incorporator 29
- deniable 113
- lamentation 59
- Concentrate 238
- unambitious 84
- overcrowding 62
- brim 569
- asynchronous 83
- quickstepped 33
- come 359
- hypothalamus 59
- belligerence 127
- gypsy cab 53
- orthographic 56
- toll free 103
- carload 112
- inconclusive 80
- colonialness 65
- stripy 73
- lose touch 88
- gratuitously 31
- pinny 72
- saturated 211
- unsuccessful 109
- elbow grease 91
- grammatical 525
- sportswear 78
- illumination 161
- pluralize 37
- Frankenstein 115
- appreciatory 48
- chirrup 83
- dispossessed 101
- Synaesthesia 36
- at present 67
- repellant 54
- beadier 59
- seamanship 63
- outstretched 52
- defend 516
- shoot up 73
- fundamentals 77
- along with 102
- wear away 51
- bare 558
- poop out 84
- painfully 111
- enmity 147
- Palpitation 69
- lead somebody by the nose 31
- expressionless 122
- subeditor 60
- Treason 87
- filled 58
- nutrient 197
- Precinct 46
- Traffic jam 37
- apolitical 111
- Bemoan 9
- Graceful 113
- supremacy 245
- recovered 49
- unbeknown 48
- actor 558
- singlet 71
- interlink 70
- figure 567
- Unmatched 21
- Heavyweight 120
- flowers 73
- stablemate 196
- umber 182
- bsi 85
- acknowledgment 242
- play 278
- Europe 170
- convert 582
- thy 99
- Mourn 176
- intelligibility 47
- tick over 105
- subliminal 166
- biotic 40
- dramatization 75
- Disciplinary 125
- reorganizer 29
- constable 222
- rendered 29
- cropper 129
- keep an eye out for 28
- unrepresentative 65
- midwifery 45
- oligarchic 44
- divinity 123
- speculate 286
- random 367
- stack 570
- ordnance 74
- put a name to (someone or something) 43
- consultant 258
- orientated 107
- princeling 49
- tapa 59
- editorial 519
- specifically 317
- retest 51
- Contemporary 277
- denotative 69
- ex- 72
- reporter 530
- format 193
- amniocenteses 41
- intelligible 153
- spell out 115
- Cenotaph 164
- gorgeous 195
- Misguided 70
- thunderbird 114
- immortal 140
- wire 568
- diviner 109
- adhesive 109
- Appearance 148
- people 309
- account 549
- mutter 604
- unlock 151
- reliable 603
- pictorial 88
- comradeship 87
- gerbil 100
- riven 42
- wring your hands 56
- stone deaf 44
- generosity 140
- wrencher 42
- lightless 48
- regulation 527
: a young eel
specifically : a small immature catadromous eel chiefly of fresh and brackish water
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web In Sweden, they might be smoked, braised in beer, or fried in butter; in Italy, boiled in tomato sauce; in England, jellied in stock, or fried with eggs into an elver cake. 
Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 18 May 2020 The season for baby eels, called elvers, was scheduled to begin Sunday. USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2020 The elvers are subject to strict quotas designed to prevent overfishing. USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020 The state caps the total number of elver licenses at 425. USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020 The spokeswoman said that a third Chinese national had escaped from the airport, leaving another suitcase containing an additional 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of elvers. Julie Zaugg, CNN, 31 Oct. 2019 One of the kingpins was a Maine dealer named Bill Sheldon, who years earlier had taught fellow fishermen how to catch the tiny translucent elvers swimming upstream by moonlight. National Geographic, 27 June 2018 Court records show that Sheldon worked with a network of elver fishermen and dealers up and down the East Coast to smuggle eels to Asia. National Geographic, 27 June 2018 The elver fishery is tightly regulated to deter poaching because of the high value of the baby fish. Washington Post, 23 May 2018 See More
Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 18 May 2020 The season for baby eels, called elvers, was scheduled to begin Sunday. USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2020 The elvers are subject to strict quotas designed to prevent overfishing. USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020 The state caps the total number of elver licenses at 425. USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020 The spokeswoman said that a third Chinese national had escaped from the airport, leaving another suitcase containing an additional 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of elvers. Julie Zaugg, CNN, 31 Oct. 2019 One of the kingpins was a Maine dealer named Bill Sheldon, who years earlier had taught fellow fishermen how to catch the tiny translucent elvers swimming upstream by moonlight. National Geographic, 27 June 2018 Court records show that Sheldon worked with a network of elver fishermen and dealers up and down the East Coast to smuggle eels to Asia. National Geographic, 27 June 2018 The elver fishery is tightly regulated to deter poaching because of the high value of the baby fish. Washington Post, 23 May 2018 See More Word History
Etymology
alteration of eelfare migration of eels
First Known Use
circa 1640, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of elver was circa 1640 👨🏻🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文