curtain
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
He drew the curtains at 11:00pm before falling asleep.
- 2.
A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
- 3.
(broadly)(theater, by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.
- 4.
(fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […].
- 5.
(euphemistic, in plural, sometimes)(euphemistic, sometimes in the plural) Death, final curtain.
- 6.
(architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- 7.
(derogatory, obsolete)A flag; an ensign.
- 8.
The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
- 2.
(figuratively, transitive)To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.
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ine-pro Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from cōrtīna (curtain), a calque from Ancient Greek -.