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  1. Oxford American Dictionary

    plume

    • IPA[plo͞om]

    美式

    • n.
      a long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament；a part of an animal's body that resembles a feather
    • v.
      spread out in a shape resembling a feather；decorate with or as if with feathers

    • verb: plume, 3rd person present: plumes, gerund or present participle: pluming, past tense: plumed, past participle: plumed

    • 釋義

    名詞

    • 1. a long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament a hat with a jaunty ostrich plume
    • ▪ a part of an animal's body that resembles a feather the antennae are divided into large feathery plumes
    • ▪ a long cloud of smoke or vapor resembling a feather as it spreads from its point of origin as he spoke, the word was accompanied by a white plume of breath
    • ▪ a mass of material, typically a pollutant, spreading from a source a radioactive plume
    • ▪ a localized column of hot magma rising by convection in the mantle, believed to cause volcanic activity in hot spots, such as the Hawaiian Islands, away from plate margins.

    動詞

    • 1. spread out in a shape resembling a feather smoke plumed from the chimneys
    • ▪ decorate with or as if with feathers I plumed the hat with a couple of soft feathers from the tail of a hawk
    • 2. archaic (of a bird) preen itself.
    • ▪ feel a great sense of self-satisfaction about something she plumed herself on being cosmopolitan