volley
Pronunciation: ['vɒli]
Average Rank: 16471
Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICTn. 群射, 齐发, 迸发 vt. 群射, 齐发, 截击 vi. 进行群射, 齐鸣
Detailed Explanations:
- n. a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
- v. be dispersed in a volley
- v. hit before it touches the ground
- v. discharge in, or as if in, a volley
ECDICT Dictionary Data
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Difficulty:
ACADEMIC
Exam Tags:
gre
Word Forms:
Plural:
volleys
Past:
volleyed
Present Participle:
volleying
3rd Person:
volleys
Past Participle:
volleyed
Word Frequency Rankings
Project Gutenberg
#9414Classical and literary usage
Percentile: 5.9%
(Top 5.9% most frequent)
Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus