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navel 音标拼音: [n'evəl] n. 脐,肚脐,中央,中心 脐,肚脐,中央,中心 navel n 1: a scar where the umbilical cord was attached; "you were not supposed to show your navel on television"; "they argued whether or not Adam had a navel"; "she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton" [synonym: {navel}, {umbilicus}, {bellybutton}, {belly button}, {omphalos}, {omphalus}] 2: the center point or middle of something; "the Incas believed that Cuzco was the navel of the universe" [synonym: {navel}, {navel point}] Navel \Na"vel\ (n[=a]"v'l), n. [AS. nafela, fr. nafu nave; akin to D. navel, G. nabel, OHG. nabolo, Icel. nafli, Dan. navle, Sw. nafle, L. umbilicus, Gr. 'omfalo`s, Skr. n[=a]bh[imac]la. [root]260. See {Nave} hub, and cf. {Omphalic}, {Nombril}, {Umbilical}.] 1. (Anat.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus; called also {belly button} in humans. See {Umbilicus}. [1913 Webster] 2. The central part or point of anything; the middle. [1913 Webster] Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. (Gun.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage. [1913 Webster] {Navel gall}, a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle. --Johnson. {Navel point}. (Her.) Same as {Nombril}. [1913 Webster] 24 Moby Thesaurus words for "navel": axis, center, center of action, center of gravity, centroid, centrum, core, dead center, epicenter, heart, hub, kernel, marrow, medulla, metacenter, middle, nave, nub, nucleus, omphalos, pith, pivot, storm center, umbilicus Nabel (m)
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