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单词 turtle
释义

turtle

See also: Turtle

English

WOTD – 10 April 2010

Pronunciation

A Florida box turtle, a land turtle.
A sea turtle.
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɜːtl̩/
  • (General American) enPR: tûrʹtəl, IPA(key): /ˈtɝtl̩/, [ˈtʰɝɾɫ̩]
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  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl

Etymology 1

Modification of Middle English tortou, tortu, from Old French tortüe (under the influence of Middle English turtel, turtur (“turtledove”), see Etymology 2 below), from Medieval Latin tortuca (compare Spanish tortuga), the same source of tortoise (see there for more). Displaced native Old English byrdling.

Alternative forms

  • tortle (obsolete)

Noun

turtle (plural turtles)

  1. (zoology, US, Canada) Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.
    Synonyms: (obsolete) shellpad, (archaic) shield-toad
  2. (zoology, Australia, Britain, specifically) A marine reptile of that order.
    Synonym: sea turtle
  3. (military, historical) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
    Synonym: testudo
  4. (computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
  5. (computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
    • 1997, Brian Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style: Symbolic computing:
      Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an actual animal with a head and four legs or — as in Berkeley Logo — it may be represented as a triangle.
  6. (printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
  7. (computing theory) A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
  8. (dance) A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
  9. (television) A low stand for a lamp etc.
    • Alan Bermingham, Location Lighting for Television
      Using an appropriate turtle allows the full range of pan and tilt adjustments on the luminaire and avoids possible heat damage to floor coverings.
Derived terms
terms derived from turtle in the above senses
  • African forest turtle (Pelusios gabonensis)
  • African helmeted turtle (Pelomedusa subruta)
  • Afro-American sideneck turtle (Pelomedusa subruta)
  • African sideneck turtle (Pelomedusa subruta)
  • African softshell turtle (Trionyx triunguis)
  • Alabama red-bellied turtle
  • Alabama map turtle (Graptemys pulchra)
  • Alabama turtle (Pseudemys alabamensis)
  • Alamos mud turtle (Kinosternon alamosae)
  • alligator turtle, alligator-turtle (Macrochelys lacertina)
  • American Turtle
  • Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles
  • Arakan forest turtle
  • Australian short-necked turtle
  • Austro-American sideneck turtle
  • black marsh turtle
  • black turtle bean
  • Blanding's turtle
  • bog turtle
  • box turtle, box-turtle
  • chicken turtle, chicken-turtle
  • common snakeneck turtle
  • cooter turtle
  • diamond-backed turtle
  • dragon turtle
  • eastern long-neck turtle
  • Fitzroy River turtle
  • flatback turtle
  • Florida redbelly turtle
  • Fly River turtle
  • golden coin turtle
  • gopher turtle
  • greaved turtle
  • Greenland turtle
  • green turtle (Chelonia spp.)
  • have a turtle's head
  • hawk-billed turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle
  • horned turtle
  • land turtle
  • leaf turtle
  • leather turtle
  • leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
  • leather-turtle
  • leathery turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
  • loggerhead turtle, logger-headed turtle
  • lute turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
  • lyre turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
  • Madagascan big-headed turtle
  • map turtle
  • marine turtle
  • marsh turtle
  • mata mata turtle, matamata turtle
  • Mary River turtle
  • mock turtle
  • mock turtle soup
  • mud turtle
  • musk turtle
  • New Guinea snakeneck turtle
  • Nile softshell turtle (Trionyx triunguis)
  • Olive Ridley turtle
  • painted turtle
  • pancake turtle
  • pig-nosed turtle, pig-nose turtle, pignose turtle
  • pitted-shelled turtle
  • plateless turtle
  • Plymouth redbelly turtle
  • pond turtle
  • purple turtler
  • red-bellied turtle
  • river turtle
  • roofed turtle
  • sea turtle, sea-turtle
  • side-necked turtle
  • silver stater with a turtle
  • snake-eating turtle
  • snake-necked turtle
  • snapping turtle, snapping-turtle
  • soft-shelled turtle, soft-shell turtle, softshell turtle
  • spiny turtle
  • spotted turtle
  • toad-headed turtle
  • twisted-necked turtle
  • tortoise-shell turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
  • trunk turtle, trunk-turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
  • turn the turtle
  • turn turtle
  • turning turtles
  • turtle ant (Cepalotes and Procryptocerus spp.)
  • turtle-back, turtleback (Psathyrodes spp.)
  • turtle barnacle (Chelonibia spp.))
  • turtle bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
  • turtlebloom (Chelone spp.)
  • turtleburger
  • turtle-corral
  • turtle cowrie, turtle cowry (Cyprea testudinaria)
  • turtle-crab (Planes minutus)
  • turtle-crawl
  • turtle-deck
  • turtledom
  • turtle dove, turtle dove (esp. Streptopelia spp.)
  • turtle-egging
  • turtle excluder device
  • turtle-footed
  • turtle frog (Myobatrachus spp.)
  • turtle-frolic
  • turtle graphics
  • turtle grass, turtle-grass (Thalassia testudinaria)
  • turtle-head, turtlehead (Chelone spp.)
  • turtle hull
  • turtle-insect
  • Turtle Island
  • turtle-kraal
  • turtle leech (Ozobranchus spp.)
  • turtle neck, turtle-neck, turtleneck
  • turtle peg, turtle-peg
  • turtle-press
  • turtler
  • turtle racing
  • Turtle River
  • turtles all the way down
  • turtle shell
  • turtle ship
  • turtle soup
  • turtle stone
  • turtle-shell
  • turtle-soup
  • turtle-stone
  • turtlet
  • turtle trade
  • turtle-twine
  • turtleweed (Batis maritima)
  • turtling
  • turtly
  • water turtle (Emydidae spp.)
  • western swamp turtle (Pseudemydura umbrina)
  • wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta)
Translations
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Verb

turtle (third-person singular simple present turtles, present participle turtling, simple past and past participle turtled)

  1. (intransitive) To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
    • 1919, Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32, page 48
      Were speeding when car turtled […] Auto crashed into curb and turtled.
  2. (intransitive) To move along slowly.
    • 2012, Sophie B. Watson, Cadillac Couches (page 193)
      We turtled along in Manitoba, back into the heart of the prairies.
  3. (intransitive) To turn and swim upside down.
    • 2009, Amy Waeschle, Chasing Waves: A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering, page 149:
      I turtled my board beneath it, flipped upright, and started paddling again.
  4. (intransitive) To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
    • 1973, Bernard Nietschmann, Between Land and Water: The Subsistence Ecology of the Miskito Indians, page 153:
      Of these, 80 turtled (65%), 26 hunted and turtled (20%), and 18 hunted (15%).
  5. (video games, board games) To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
Translations

See also

  • chelonian
  • hatchling (turtle young)
  • terrapin
  • tortoise

References

  • turtle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Turtle on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Testudines on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Testudines on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

From Middle English turtle, tortle, turtel, turtul, from Old English turtle, turtla (“turtledove”), ultimately from Latin turtur (“turtledove”), of imitative origin.

Noun

turtle (plural turtles)

  1. (now rare, archaic) A turtle dove.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
      The same he tooke, and with a riband new, / In which his Ladies colours were, did bind / About the turtles neck […] .
    • 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1:
      As the turtle, every day has been a black day with her since her husband died, and what should we unruly members make here?
Derived terms
terms derived from turtle in the above senses
  • turtle-bird
  • turtle dove, turtle-dove, turtledove
  • turtleish, turtlish
  • turtleise, turtlise, turtleize, turtlize
Translations
turtle dove — see turtle dove

Anagrams

  • Lutter, ruttle, turlet

Old English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin turtur (“turtledove”), of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈturt.le/, [ˈturˠt.le]

Noun

turtle f

  1. turtle dove

Declension

Declension of turtle (weak)
CaseSingularPlural
nominativeturtleturtlan
accusativeturtlanturtlan
genitiveturtlanturtlena
dativeturtlanturtlum

Coordinate terms

  • turtla m (“turtle dove (male)”)
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