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    /ˈwɒːtərfɒːl/ · /ˈwɔːtəfɔːl/

    A place where the water in a river or stream comes to the edge of a cliff or a big rock and falls straight down.

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    複數 waterfalls

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A river runs along flat ground, then the ground under it simply stops — a cliff edge — and the water keeps going, dropping straight down through the air in a white sheet, with noise and spray at the bottom. The word is just its two parts put together: water + fall.

可以想成一條河好好地往前流，走著走著腳下的地突然沒了——是一道崖邊——水來不及轉彎，就整片直直往下墜，落在下面砸出白…更多收起可以想成一條河好好地往前流，走著走著腳下的地突然沒了——是一道崖邊——水來不及轉彎，就整片直直往下墜，落在下面砸出白花花的水氣和聲響。這個字拆開來看就是它自己的畫面：water（水）＋ fall（落下）。

原始詞典資料19 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Waterfallname

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    A barangay of Sulop, Davao del Sur, Philippines.

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    A suburb of Sydney in the Sutherland council area, New South Wales, Australia.

waterfallnoun/ˈwɔːtəfɔːl/

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    A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.

    • Hello, my love, I heard a kiss from you / Red magic satin playing near too / All through the morning rain I gaze, the sun doesn't shine / Rainbows and waterfalls run through my mind
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    A waterfall-like outpouring of liquid, smoke, etc.

    • A waterfall of mist came from the open freezer.
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    A chart depicting the timing and duration of network requests.

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    slangThe action of drinking from a vessel without touching it with the lips, considered more sanitary for a shared vessel.

    • Hey man, can I take a waterfall from your bottle?
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    datedA necktie.

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    datedA chignon (hairstyle).

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    datedA beard.

    • I found home a dreary place after my long absence; for half the children I had known were now wearing whiskers or waterfalls, […]
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    gymnasticshobbieslifestyleA kind of handstand with chin tucked and back arched.

waterfallverb/ˈwɔːtəfɔːl/

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    To fall like a waterfall.

    • Rain ran off the bill of his fielder's cap and waterfalled in front of his face.
    • Zondra, whose dirty-blond hair waterfalled above her head from a colorful tie, gave a snorting, horsey kind of laugh.
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    To drink (something) from a container by pouring it from a height so as not to touch one's lips to the rim.

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    Synonym of recycle.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。