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noose

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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noose /nuːs/ noun  noose.jpg [countable]DT a ring formed by the end of a piece of rope, which closes more tightly as it is pulled, used especially for killing someone by hanging them 活绳结,绳套〔尤指绞索〕
Examples from the Corpus
nooseHe felt as if a noose had slipped around his neck.Not so foolish as to put your head in a noose.She found some rope in the corner tossed it over a beam, and made a noose in the other end.Then, alone in his dressing room, he cheerfully prepared a noose with which to hang himself.I could see a noose had been thrown round my neck I'd maybe never get free from.He trussed himself up, with a noose round his neck, then handcuffed himself.The U.S. tightened the economic noose around the dictatorship.They had slid his noose from their necks and freed themselves of him.And it is also the reality that stays my hand from the noose and trap when Kasparov speaks.
Origin noose (1400-1500) Probably from Provençal nous knot, from Latin nodus; → NODE
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noose
noose /nuːs/ noun
 Date: 1400-1500
 Origin: Probably from Provençal nous 'knot', from Latin nodus; node

[countable] a ring formed by the end of a piece of rope, which closes more tightly as it is pulled, used especially for killing someone by hanging them


nooseBrE /nuːs/ 🔊NAmE /nuːs/ 🔊 nouna circle that is tied in one end of a rope with a knot that allows the circle to get smaller as the other end of the rope is pulled 绳套;套索;活扣a hangman's noose绞索(figurative) His debts were a noose around his neck. 债务就像套在他脖子上的一条套索。🔊🔊