waft

/waft, wahft/US // wæft, wɑft //UK // (wɑːft, wɒft) //

飘逸,飘散,飘动,漂浮物

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb

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- : to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water: The gentle breeze wafted the sound of music to our ears.
- : to send or convey lightly, as if in flight: The actress wafted kisses to her admirers in the audience.
- : Obsolete. to signal to, summon, or direct by waving.

v.无主动词 verb

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- : to float or be carried, especially through the air: The sound wafted on the breeze. The music wafted across the lake.

n.名词 noun

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- : a sound, odor, etc., faintly perceived: a waft of perfume.
- : a wafting movement; light current or gust: a waft of air.

verbcarry

Forms: wafted, wafting

Synonyms

He caught a waft of methane and spotted a pile of corroded metal surrounding a hole that had once been an active well.
“At least it keeps the mosquitoes away,” one of my table-mates said, as we watched the swooshes of smoke waft into the Havana sky.
The smells waft through the shantytown of tents and tires known as the Maidan, the main square in Kiev.
The film is an amiable but formless waft through a 1950s British film set.
Bewitching scents waft from a stone vessel holding multicolored powders, herbs and seeds.
It needed only an exertion of will for the soul to hurl the body ashore as wind drives paper; to waft it kite-fashion to the bank.
It sufficed, however, to waft them into a little cove making into one of these islands at about two hours before noon.
She had a vague feeling that the boat should have been ready to waft them miraculously over star-lit seas.
A puff of wind brought them a waft of fainter odour from the wild violets which carpeted the woods.
But we link our wishes with whatsoever would gently waft us over.

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water: The gentle breeze wafted the sound of music to our ears.
- : to send or convey lightly, as if in flight: The actress wafted kisses to her admirers in the audience.
- : Obsolete. to signal to, summon, or direct by waving.

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to float or be carried, especially through the air: The sound wafted on the breeze. The music wafted across the lake.

n.名词 noun

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- : a sound, odor, etc., faintly perceived: a waft of perfume.
- : a wafting movement; light current or gust: a waft of air.

Examples

He caught a waft of methane and spotted a pile of corroded metal surrounding a hole that had once been an active well.

“At least it keeps the mosquitoes away,” one of my table-mates said, as we watched the swooshes of smoke waft into the Havana sky.

The smells waft through the shantytown of tents and tires known as the Maidan, the main square in Kiev.

The film is an amiable but formless waft through a 1950s British film set.

Bewitching scents waft from a stone vessel holding multicolored powders, herbs and seeds.

It needed only an exertion of will for the soul to hurl the body ashore as wind drives paper; to waft it kite-fashion to the bank.

It sufficed, however, to waft them into a little cove making into one of these islands at about two hours before noon.

She had a vague feeling that the boat should have been ready to waft them miraculously over star-lit seas.

A puff of wind brought them a waft of fainter odour from the wild violets which carpeted the woods.

But we link our wishes with whatsoever would gently waft us over.