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单词 slender
释义
slender
adjective
uk
/ˈslen.dər/us
/ˈslen.dɚ/
C2
thinanddelicate, often in a way that isattractive:
苗条的，纤细的
He put hishandsaround her slenderwaist.他双手搂住了她纤细的腰。
The plant'sleavesarelongand slender.这株植物叶子细长。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
having less flesh on the body than average
  • thinShe's on a diet but I think she's already too thin.
  • skinnyYou should eat more. You're much too skinny.
  • scrawnyHe hated his scrawny legs.
  • slimHe was tall, very slim, with pale, deep-set eyes.
  • slenderHe put his arms around her slender waist.
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smallinamountordegree:
少量的
a man of slendermeans(= without muchmoney)穷人
Thechancesofsettlingthisdisputethroughtalksseemincreasinglyslender.通过对话解决这场争端的机会似乎越来越小。
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Animal physiology: thin or slender (of people)
  • be skin and bone(s)idiom
  • beanpole
  • cadaverous
  • ectomorph
  • emaciation
  • gauntness
  • gracile
  • hard-bodied
  • hatchet-faced
  • hollow
  • hollow-cheeked
  • lanky
  • raw-boned
  • scrawny
  • skinny
  • slenderize
  • slight
  • svelte
  • sylphlike
  • trim
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Thin and fine
Small in number and quantity

Related word

slenderness
(Definition ofslenderfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

slender| American Dictionary

slender
adjective
us
/ˈslen·dər/
thin:
The slenderbookrunsall of 150pages.
Sarane is atall, slender man.
(Definition ofslenderfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofslender

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The extracted worms were whitish,slender, cylindrical with tapered ends, consistent with nematodes and highly motile.
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When first transmitted to a mammal, trypanosomes have a long,slendermorphology and these forms are not infectious to the tsetse.
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A committedslendercell undergoes about 5 divisions before exiting the cell-cycle.
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In the early passages after obtaining the parasites from mouse blood, the parasites released from cells on day 4 contained up to 50 %slenderforms.
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The full-figured woman's backside is the focus of attention, while theslenderwoman is presented frontally.
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Admirably, theslendervolume does not provide easy answers, nor does it present ethical questions in an either-or dichotomy.
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Trypanosomes are able to regulate their own density byslenderto stumpy cell differentiation when their density passes a critical threshold.
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Although in the experiments,slender, intermediate and stumpy cells were counted, we choose to include intermediate cells in the stumpy class.
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There appear to be two mechanisms that can induceslendercell differentiation.
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The lobes of the ninth tergite in breinli are longer and moreslenderand bear more hairs (fig. 10, d, h).
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The mesosome has aslender, smooth, blunt-tipped, long projection and a short pointed one (fig. 13, b).
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The dentary is long andslenderand is dorsoventrally tallest at its caudal margin.
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Following these, there are nine pairs of thin andslenderribs, of which the six posteriormost attach on the haemal arches and spines.
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The equations governing the evolution of aslenderinviscid drop in an axisymmetric flow are derived in the following section.
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The chapter onslenderwing methods and their application to unsteady flow problems is fairly comprehensive and is a most valuable part of the monograph.
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