- Inflections of 'cockle' (v): (⇒ conjugate)
- v 3rd person singular
- v pres pverb, present participle: -ing verb used descriptively or to form progressive verb--for example, "a singing bird," "It is singing."
- v pastverb, past simple: Past tense--for example, "He saw the man." "She laughed."
- v past pverb, past participle: Verb form used descriptively or to form verbs--for example, "the locked door," "The door has been locked."
WordReference English-Chinese Dictionary © 2020:
|cockle nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.|| (mollusc) (一种软体动物)||鸟蛤 |
| ||The children arrived at the shore early in the morning to gather cockles.|
|cockle⇒ viintransitive verb: Verb not taking a direct object--for example, "She jokes." "He has arrived."|| (paper: wrinkle)||起皱 |
| ||The newspaper got cockled when the child stepped on it.|
|cockle [sth]⇒ vtrtransitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat."|| (paper: make wrinkled)||弄皱 |
| ||Be careful not to cockle the paper; it's an important document!|