noose: [15] The notion underlying the word noose is of a ‘knot’, rather than of a ‘loop of rope made with a knot’. The word comes from nos or nous, the Old French descendant of Latin nodus ‘knot’. This was the source of English node [16], of course, and of the diminutive form nodule [16], but it has also made a couple of less obvious contributions to English: dénouement [18], which comes via a French word denoting literally the ‘untying of a knot’, and newel [14] ‘staircase post’, which was borrowed from Old French nouel ‘knob’, a descendant of the medieval Latin diminutive nōdellus. => dénouement, newel, node, nodule
noose (n.)
mid-15c., perhaps from Old French nos or cognate Old Provençal nous "knot," from Latin nodus "knot" (see net (n.)). Rare before c. 1600.
双语例句
1. The rebels are tightening the noose around the capital.
叛乱分子正在收紧对首都的包围。
来自柯林斯例句
2. His debts were a noose around his neck.
债务就像套在他脖子上的一条套索。
来自《权威词典》
3. Put one's head in a noose.
自套绞索.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. They tied a noose round her neck.
他们在她脖子上系了一个活扣.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. He cut the rope then and went astern to noose the tail.