🔍 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:
BNC: 37809 COCA: 21913

peephole

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
peephole /ˈpiːpˌhoʊl/ noun
plural peepholes
peephole
/ˈpiːpˌhoʊl/
noun
plural peepholes
Learner's definition of PEEPHOLE
[count]
: a hole that is used to look through something (such as a door) to the other side窥视孔;观测孔
BNC: 37809 COCA: 21913

peephole

noun

peep·​hole ˈpēp-ˌhōl How to pronounce peephole (audio)
: a hole or crevice to peep through

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The Milky Way’s stars are very sparse in the target region, allowing Hubble to probe the cosmic abyss like a viewer peering through a peephole. Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 15 July 2022 Under the alias Bearsun, Jessy Larios, then 33, ambled from Los Angeles to New York, sweating and chafing and viewing the world through a mesh peephole. Gloria Liu, The Atlantic, 9 July 2022 As Andrews explained on stage: All inspiration really is is a peephole into possibility. David Allan, CNN, 15 June 2022 The door to its backroom had a peephole, marking its origin as a speak-easy, a Prohibition-era underground saloon. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022 Another door includes a sliding peephole, a telltale speak-easy element. Diana Lambdin Meyer, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022 The moment is intercut with snippets of footage that include Nacho Vargo, clearly in hiding after the events of Better Call Saul season five and peering through a peephole. Andy Meek, BGR, 5 Apr. 2022 The kitchen is also set up to resemble the one from Monica's apartment, from its lavender walls and robin's egg blue cabinets to the famous framed peephole. Ariana Garcia, Chron, 18 Mar. 2022 The guard instead started shooting through a peephole until the Daltons gave it up and rode off empty-handed. Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1570, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of peephole was circa 1570
BNC: 37809 COCA: 21913

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime