vampire 音标拼音: [v'æmpɑɪr]
n . 吸血鬼
吸血鬼
vampire n 1 : (
folklore )
a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living [
synonym : {
vampire }, {
lamia }]
Vampire \
Vam "
pire \,
n . [
F .
vampire (
cf .
It .
vampiro ,
G . &
D .
vampir ),
fr .
Servian vampir .] [
Written also {
vampyre }.]
1 .
A blood -
sucking ghost ;
a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep ,
thus causing their death .
This superstition was once prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe ,
and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730 .
The vampire was often said to have the ability to transform itself into the form of a bat ,
as presented in the novel depicting the legend of Dracula published by Bram Stoker in 1897 ,
which has inspired several movies .
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1913 Webster PJC ]
The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards ,
witches ,
suicides ,
and persons who have come to a violent end ,
or have been cursed by their parents or by the church , --
Encyc .
Brit .
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2 .
Fig .:
One who lives by preying on others ;
an extortioner ;
a bloodsucker .
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3 . (
Zool .)
Either one of two or more species of South American blood -
sucking bats belonging to the genera {
Desmodus }
and {
Diphylla };
also called {
vampire bat }.
These bats are destitute of molar teeth ,
but have strong ,
sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses ,
cattle ,
and other animals ,
as well as man ,
chiefly during sleep .
They have a caecal appendage to the stomach ,
in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored .
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4 . (
Zool .)
Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus {
Vampyrus },
especially {
Vampyrus spectrum }.
These bats feed upon insects and fruit ,
but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals .
Called also {
false vampire }.
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{
Vampire bat } (
Zool .),
a vampire ,
3 .
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False \
False \,
a . [
Compar . {
Falser };
superl . {
Falsest }.] [
L .
falsus ,
p .
p .
of fallere to deceive ;
cf .
OF .
faus ,
fals ,
F .
faux ,
and AS .
fals fraud .
See {
Fail }, {
Fall }.]
1 .
Uttering falsehood ;
unveracious ;
given to deceit ;
dishnest ;
as ,
a false witness .
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2 .
Not faithful or loyal ,
as to obligations ,
allegiance ,
vows ,
etc .;
untrue ;
treacherous ;
perfidious ;
as ,
a false friend ,
lover ,
or subject ;
false to promises .
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I to myself was false ,
ere thou to me . --
Milton .
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3 .
Not according with truth or reality ;
not true ;
fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint ;
as ,
a false statement .
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4 .
Not genuine or real ;
assumed or designed to deceive ;
counterfeit ;
hypocritical ;
as ,
false tears ;
false modesty ;
false colors ;
false jewelry .
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know .
--
Shak .
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5 .
Not well founded ;
not firm or trustworthy ;
erroneous ;
as ,
a false claim ;
a false conclusion ;
a false construction in grammar .
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Whose false foundation waves have swept away .
--
Spenser .
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6 .
Not essential or permanent ,
as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental .
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7 . (
Mus .)
Not in tune .
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{
False arch } (
Arch .),
a member having the appearance of an arch ,
though not of arch construction .
{
False attic },
an architectural erection above the main cornice ,
concealing a roof ,
but not having windows or inclosing rooms .
{
False bearing },
any bearing which is not directly upon a vertical support ;
thus ,
the weight carried by a corbel has a false bearing .
{
False cadence },
an imperfect or interrupted cadence .
{
False conception } (
Med .),
an abnormal conception in which a mole ,
or misshapen fleshy mass ,
is produced instead of a properly organized fetus .
{
False croup } (
Med .),
a spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup ,
but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane .
{
False door }
or {
False window } (
Arch .),
the representation of a door or window ,
inserted to complete a series of doors or windows or to give symmetry .
{
False fire },
a combustible carried by vessels of war ,
chiefly for signaling ,
but sometimes burned for the purpose of deceiving an enemy ;
also ,
a light on shore for decoying a vessel to destruction .
{
False galena }.
See {
Blende }.
{
False imprisonment } (
Law ),
the arrest and imprisonment of a person without warrant or cause ,
or contrary to law ;
or the unlawful detaining of a person in custody .
{
False keel } (
Naut .),
the timber below the main keel ,
used to serve both as a protection and to increase the shio '
s lateral resistance .
{
False key },
a picklock .
{
False leg }. (
Zool .)
See {
Proleg }.
{
False membrane } (
Med .),
the fibrinous deposit formed in croup and diphtheria ,
and resembling in appearance an animal membrane .
{
False papers } (
Naut .),
documents carried by a ship giving false representations respecting her cargo ,
destination ,
etc .,
for the purpose of deceiving .
{
False passage } (
Surg .),
an unnatural passage leading off from a natural canal ,
such as the urethra ,
and produced usually by the unskillful introduction of instruments .
{
False personation } (
Law ),
the intentional false assumption of the name and personality of another .
{
False pretenses } (
Law ),
false representations concerning past or present facts and events ,
for the purpose of defrauding another .
{
False rail } (
Naut .),
a thin piece of timber placed on top of the head rail to strengthen it .
{
False relation } (
Mus .),
a progression in harmony ,
in which a certain note in a chord appears in the next chord prefixed by a flat or sharp .
{
False return } (
Law ),
an untrue return made to a process by the officer to whom it was delivered for execution .
{
False ribs } (
Anat .),
the asternal rebs ,
of which there are five pairs in man .
{
False roof } (
Arch .),
the space between the upper ceiling and the roof . --
Oxford Gloss .
{
False token },
a false mark or other symbol ,
used for fraudulent purposes .
{
False scorpion } (
Zool .),
any arachnid of the genus {
Chelifer }.
See {
Book scorpion }.
{
False tack } (
Naut .),
a coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack .
{
False vampire } (
Zool .),
the {
Vampyrus spectrum }
of South America ,
formerly erroneously supposed to have blood -
sucking habits ; --
called also {
vampire },
and {
ghost vampire }.
The genuine blood -
sucking bats belong to the genera {
Desmodus }
and {
Diphylla }.
See {
Vampire }.
{
False window }. (
Arch .)
See {
False door },
above .
{
False wing }. (
Zool .)
See {
Alula },
and {
Bastard wing },
under {
Bastard }.
{
False works } (
Civil Engin .),
construction works to facilitate the erection of the main work ,
as scaffolding ,
bridge centering ,
etc .
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120 Moby Thesaurus words for "
vampire ":
Aspasia ,
Baba Yaga ,
Circe ,
Delilah ,
Don Juan ,
Dracula ,
Euryale ,
Frankenstein ,
Gorgon ,
Jezebel ,
Lilith ,
Lorelei ,
Medea ,
Medusa ,
Messalina ,
Parthenope ,
Phryne ,
Siren ,
Stheno ,
Thais ,
Wolf -
man ,
adventuress ,
afreet ,
ape -
man ,
barghest ,
bewitcher ,
blackmailer ,
bloodsucker ,
bogey ,
bogeyman ,
bugaboo ,
bugbear ,
cacodemon ,
captive ,
catch ,
charmer ,
conquest ,
coquette ,
courtesan ,
daeva ,
date ,
demimondaine ,
demimonde ,
demirep ,
demon ,
devil ,
devil incarnate ,
dybbuk ,
enchanter ,
enchantress ,
enticer ,
evil genius ,
evil spirit ,
extortionist ,
fee -
faw -
fum ,
femme fatale ,
fiend ,
fiend from hell ,
flirt ,
frightener ,
genie ,
genius ,
ghost ,
ghoul ,
gyre ,
harem girl ,
harpy ,
hellhound ,
hellion ,
hellkite ,
hetaera ,
hobgoblin ,
holy terror ,
honey ,
horror ,
houri ,
incubus ,
inveigler ,
jinni ,
jinniyeh ,
lamia ,
leech ,
monster ,
nightmare ,
odalisque ,
ogre ,
ogress ,
phantom ,
predator ,
profiteer ,
racketeer ,
rakshasa ,
raptor ,
revenant ,
satan ,
scarebabe ,
scarecrow ,
scarer ,
seducer ,
seductress ,
shakedown artist ,
shark ,
shedu ,
siren ,
specter ,
spellbinder ,
steady ,
succubus ,
sweet patootie ,
sweetheart ,
sweetie ,
teaser ,
tempter ,
temptress ,
terror ,
the undead ,
vamp ,
vulture ,
werewolf ,
yogini
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