noose: [15] The notion underlying the word noose is of a ‘knot’, rather than of a ‘loop of rope made with a knot’. The word comes from nos or nous, the Old French descendant of Latin nodus ‘knot’. This was the source of English node [16], of course, and of the diminutive form nodule [16], but it has also made a couple of less obvious contributions to English: dénouement [18], which comes via a French word denoting literally the ‘untying of a knot’, and newel [14] ‘staircase post’, which was borrowed from Old French nouel ‘knob’, a descendant of the medieval Latin diminutive nōdellus. => dénouement, newel, node, nodule
noose (n.)
mid-15c., perhaps from Old French nos or cognate Old Proven?al nous "knot," from Latin nodus "knot" (see net (n.)). Rare before c. 1600.
雙語例句
1. The rebels are tightening the noose around the capital.
叛亂分子正在收緊對首都的包圍。
來自柯林斯例句
2. His debts were a noose around his neck.
債務就像套在他脖子上的一條套索。
來自《權威詞典》
3. Put one's head in a noose.
自套絞索.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. They tied a noose round her neck.
他們在她脖子上系了一個活扣.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. He cut the rope then and went astern to noose the tail.