thorn

Các nghĩa

1. gai (cành biến đổi)

   A modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike.

   Every rose has its thorn.

   I got a thorn in my finger.

   I have a thorn in my finger.

2. gai (cấu trúc giống gai trên cây)

   Any thorn-like structure on plants, such as the spine and the prickle.

   On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns.

3. cây có gai (đặc biệt là táo gai)

   Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.

   the white thorn

   the cockspur thorn

4. điều khó chịu, phiền toái

   That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.

   figuratively

   There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.

   The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, / Be only mine.

5. chữ thorn (Þ, þ)

   A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).

   In Old English manuscripts thorn and eth did not have different phonetic values but were used positionally[.]

   See also Etymology of ye (definite article).

Dạng khác

• thorns plural

Dễ nhầm với

Âm /θ/ và /ð/ không có trong tiếng Việt

Cụm phụ âm khó — tiếng Việt không có

Âm /l/, /n/ và /r/ dễ lẫn