[countableC]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
noose• He 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 cornertossed 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 thrownround 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 economicnoose 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.
Originnoose
(1400-1500) Probably from Provençalnous“knot”, from Latinnodus; → NODE
ADJECTIVE | VERB + NOOSE | NOOSE + VERB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤hangman's絞索VERB + NOOSE➤fasten, tie收緊/繫上套索◇They tied a noose around her neck.他們把絞索繫在她脖子上。➤pull, tighten拉套索;勒緊套索▸➤make打活扣NOOSE + VERB➤tighten套索收緊PREPOSITION➤in a/the noose, into a/the noose處在/進入套索裏◇He put his head into the noose.他把頭伸進套索。➤noose around, noose round (especially BrE) 繞着⋯的活扣◇The noose tightened around her neck.她脖子上的活扣收緊了。