🔍 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：
- enthrone 40
- literacy 129
- reap 320
- senile 65
- layperson 44
- prod 109
- tea 150
- Teamwork 69
- crew 349
- propagation 30
- Flow 64
- knight errant 28
- counseling 109
- smithy 6
- adduce 64
- errable 4
- entity 170
- signal 408
- northeast 314
- dopamine 44
- Scale 170
- Empty 110
- ramp up 21
- follow-on 34
- garden 166
- fatiguing 121
- Direction 145
- squirrel 424
- make ends meet 18
- Thriving 85
- makeup 150
- publicity 148
- delegate 376
- hateful 282
- cockcrow 24
- counterargument 43
- homophobe 8
- steadily 280
- unethical 33
- nanocomposite 4
- connective tissue 30
- dock 314
- Chemistry 90
- optimist 133
- syllabus 59
- pilfer 157
- beefy 124
- git-go 31
- clansman 63
- fairy-tale 27
- MP 100
- parallax 10
- whammy 8
- Aim 158
- dvr 32
- immigration 142
- bathing costume 37
- Both 54
- hospital 107
- fava 28
- cottonwood 46
- Emulsifier 33
- condense 317
- heir 343
- expectation 371
- apocryphal 59
- African 234
- dupe 65
- wastage 12
- ecg 30
- exit 382
- blatantly 35
- caretaker 65
- growly 41
- bodysuit 50
- as much as 8
- pendency 10
- inductive 88
- economize 68
- escalope 27
- collaboration 125
- diddly 40
- Originality 118
- cobnut 31
- despondency 49
- earthmover 49
- shortcoming 365
- quickstep 6
- work out 33
- wife 175
- enamel 80
- rein in 33
- acidify 44
- Cot 23
- Logged 72
- debar 73
- became 26
- martyrdom 12
- take back 52
- caregiver 53
- Carbon 74
- chug 78
- thimbleful 7
- bamboozle 58
- compel 357
- poke about 16
- limby 6
- optician 12
- cowboy 59
- switchblade 5
- deaconess 57
- change over 30
- tunned 5
- gem 205
- ruffled 6
- cession 52
- dishorse 10
- overdraft 12
- Pier 54
- pitting 6
- indrawn 6
- Rescuer 10
- blind 294
- bragged 23
- regressive 4
- categoric 26
- iconography 11
- seaway 8
- kd 6
- ic 5
- ad 367
- drought 355
- determination 362
- Hello 51
- Finally 82
- parodied 7
- harden 362
- termitic 4
- not in the slightest 17
- recant 88
- mascot 25
- concentric 51
- babelize 8
- tombola 6
- sinew 8
- inescapable 43
- CANADA 6
- pleb 6
- turtledove 48
- Bed 89
- anxious 354
- ravel 96
- rummage sale 19
- toil 62
- Auxiliary 59
- gab 60
- opposed 149
- vagina 12
- fluoride 59
- courtroom 31
- kelp 11
- venturesomely 5
- supersedure 6
- bedhead 88
- questing 5
- full-blooded 40
- milestone 58
- Pipeline 6
- Concentrated 89
- shroff 7
- Carriage 24
- pict 8
- obstreperous 34
- afford 326
- racecourse 8
- seize up 61
- Savagery 47
- indigestion 6
- cutting edge 125
- historian 71
- hash 11
- get across 41
- fiberglass 53
- bucket down 45
- Relentless 29
- fear 346
- freshwater 58
- Illuminate 13
- rentier 10
- safety 321
- snowdrift 7
- hyperspace 6
- bin liner 37
- forefather 55
- im 11
- shavuot 7
- Enzyme 31
- bouncy 72
- Retrospect 110
- enervating 33
- pile 473
- veriest 4
- Hive 50
- ex gratia 32
- smokiest 6
- backward-looking 35
- accusable 52
- candy 329
- grave 355
- bishopric 46
- overcharging 3
- unturned 4
- Intuitive 18
- importation 10
- sanitised 4
- milieu 71
- newspaperman 7
- sandstone 7
- problematics 4
- confab 53
- squalling 5
- conniving 36
- mamma 8
- suavities 5
- Temperature 169
- Safe 120
- beastly 59
- cash register 38
- glitz 88
- suspension 132
- provoke 189
- cannibalize 46
- eastbound 57
- heliotrope 9
- globular 50
- scattergun 4
- cesarean section 34
- contraction 124
- look after 29
- class-action 26
- adapter 158
- downlight 4
- Accountable 24
- timetable 316
- Moon 78
- ascorbic acid 34
- hotel 67
- empty 128
- square away 33
- gloaming 52
- fortune-teller 31
- dongle 27
- homoeopathy 5
- penicillin 31
- diagnosis 192
- cottage 340
- do good 32
- ga 37
- goody 64
- Sublimate 56
- lithium 6
- sun hat 7
- passage 67
- overpayment 9
- born-again 39
- unconsidered 5
- far off 37
- collaboratively 40
- instinctive 76
- woe 85
- therapeutic 58
- bet 383
- berm 23
- sophomoric 64
- conclusion 317
- Ambience 25
- evelyn 8
- lay sth out 14
- ayer 39
- inasmuch as 17
- Floss 55
- democratic 358
- jeopardy 130
- Bahamas 33
- greenland 30
- nosebleed 10
- clear-felling 34
- Tchaikovsky 26
- Boon 33
- Defy 106
- generation 359
- counterpart 131
- final 328
- captain 333
- communal 59
- polymorphous 5
- cmdr 23
- cantina 91
- cybercrime 29
- goodie 34
- derangement 33
- step on (someone's) toes 37
- Fall back on 18
- the Antipodes 35
- eco-friendly 79
- strictly 284
- gujarati 37
- smatter 5
- december 40
- pastoralism 5
- Look up 48
- uzbek 6
- plentitude 4
- ice cream 155
- do-or-die 24
- howl 74
- jack-of-all-trades 60
- possessor 5
- maven 6
- broadly based 29
- explosion 331
- century 452
- ordnance 8
- hold up 40
- MINUS 38
- o clock 5
- tune-up 6
- channel surfing 47
- complacencies 10
- Recitation 12
- thankless 6
- clubland 76
- automotive 53
- o'clock 8
- foolhardiest 24
- occur 435
- typecasting 3
- archetype 62
- Fade 137
- heart-wrenching 16
- Gauge 20
- Hurtle 30
- segmentation 7
- transfixt 4
- concurrently 24
- reimport 4
- products 49
- beguiling 103
- wearier 4
- vehemence 31
- jobs 9
- Decipher 44
- insurable 10
- flimsy 89
- victimless 8
- belfry 50
- signalmen 3
- service 178
- carbohydrate 97
- trashiest 3
- audit 85
- fluted 58
- stillborn 4
- sparrer 4
- runnymede 4
- Zurich 58
- Palace 144
- pelota 7
- transplant 381
- America 63
- Amateur 154
- Regret 63
- east 79
- published 57
- metropolitan 67
- dealmaker 34
- scrollable 4
- facility 395
- unorganized 2
- post meridiem 3
- platelayer 5
- ante meridiem 3
- federalize 49
- realpolitiker 4
- kikongo 8
- Besides 73
- cold shoulder 55
- Galactic 7
- enthronement 28
- politics 352
- immerse 218
- excipient 26
- especially 279
- jigsaw 41
- consumer price index 66
- ceramics 38
- inconsequential 12
- tableware 28
- corporate 132
- syllogism 9
- Value 203
- apex 52
- caper 54
- lexemic 4
- hypo 21
- bankruptcy 198
- knockabout 10
- lo 45
- martial art 69
- videocassette 18
- mansion 81
- confederate 63
- Shank 48
- plaint 7
- Posture 34
- reason out 22
- embroideress 5
- fossil 114
- engrossing 56
- poop out 31
- grace 607
- franchised 51
- flaunt 49
- synopsize 6
- giantess 37
- physical geography 17
- booklet 52
- unfurl 65
- flagstone 63
- din 79
- GDP 34
- Administration 133
- awhile 59
- etiquette 67
- Hard 145
- sheathe 9
- contraindication 51
- Articulate 50
- candidacy 50
- Penalties 34
- postmortem 140
- dinky 58
- worse 337
- consumerism 67
- hedge 480
- Box office 26
- slit 291
- overdevelop 5
- age limit 28
- Shut 68
- training 321
- malediction 65
- face to face 41
- molten 81
- fussbudget 45
- classify 288
- windscreen 138
- crack-up 41
- Plutocracy 51
- have a cow 53
- Zionism 20
- lidded 8
- improve 340
- abstractness 11
- frilly 107
- swim 72
- buffoon 48
- Composer 106
- unseemly 136
- equine 65
- equal opportunities 29
- Torah 8
- bill of fare 34
- rustle 205
- Ambivalence 15
- priceless 5
- blowhard 100
- Interviewee 90
- clinker 46
- Englishman 259
- expulsion 91
- CBI 18
- amharic 25
- medalist 28
- capital-intensive 38
- blue chip 64
- authoritative 129
- caving 93
- eprom 30
- paintiness 4
- therefore 285
- triskaidekaphobia 36
- mark out 40
- Intake 28
- alarm clock 47
- protoplasmal 8
- destiny 133
- filipina 27
- speciousness 32
- mogul 125
: any of a family (Caprimulgidae) of medium-sized long-winged crepuscular or nocturnal birds (such as the whip-poor-wills and nighthawks) having a short bill, short legs, and soft mottled plumage and feeding on insects which they catch on the wing
called also goatsucker
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The research group found that the cilia are notably absent from feathers of barn owls and nightjars, two species that stalk prey at night. 
Jim Daley, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2020 On other hand, the lesser nighthawk is the most frequently seen nightjar, active at sunrise and sunset and during the night. Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2017 Owls, of course, commonly feed at night, but there is another class of nocturnal birds known as nightjars that include the lesser and common nighthawks and poorwill. Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2017
Jim Daley, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2020 On other hand, the lesser nighthawk is the most frequently seen nightjar, active at sunrise and sunset and during the night. Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2017 Owls, of course, commonly feed at night, but there is another class of nocturnal birds known as nightjars that include the lesser and common nighthawks and poorwill. Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2017 Word History
Etymology
night entry 1 + jar "discordant sound," derivative of jar entry 3 (alluding to the churring trill of the European nightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus)
First Known Use
1630, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of nightjar was in 1630 👨🏻🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文