muzzle — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.

   مرادفات

   snout

   أمثلة

   The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, / The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, […]

2. A person's mouth.

   الاستعمال

   • broadly
   • تحقيري
   • لغة دارجة

3. A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.

4. The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.

5. A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.

   الاستعمال

   • Scotland

   مرادفات

   bridle

6. An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

   الاستعمال

   • تاريخي
   • مهجور

فعل

1. To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

   الاستعمال

   • متعدٍ

   مرادفات

   bemuzzle

   أمثلة

   Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

2. To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.

   الاستعمال

   • مجازي
   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.

   Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

3. To veil, mask, muffle.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور
   • متعدٍ

4. To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور
   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   Venus her self would sit Muzzling and Gazing them in the Eyes

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   And now, while they are climbing the pole in another part of the field, and muzzling in a flour-tub in another, the old farmer […] announces to all whom it may concern that a half-sovereign in money will be forthcoming to the old gamester who breaks most heads; […]

5. To bring the muzzle or mouth near.

   الاستعمال

   • لازم

   أمثلة

   The Bear comes directly up to him, Muzzles and Smells to him.

اسم

1. the open circular discharging end of a gun

   مرادفات

   gun muzzle

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   opening

2. forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   face

3. a leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout (especially a dog's nose and jaws) and prevents it from eating or biting

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   restraintconstraint

4. restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting

   مرادفات

   gag

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   restraintconstraint

فعل

1. fit with a muzzle

   الأضداد

   unmuzzle

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   equipfitfit outoutfit

   أمثلة

   muzzle the dog to prevent it from biting strangers

2. prevent from speaking out

   مرادفات

   gag

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   hushquietensilencestillshut uphush up

   أمثلة

   The press was gagged

3. tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them

   مرادفات

   gag

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   tiebind

   أمثلة

   The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair