manicuring
manicuring — verb
- manicuringpresent simple I / you / we / they
- manicurings3rd person singular
- manicuringing-ing form
- manicuringedpast simple
1. shaping, cleaning, and softening the skin and nails of someone's hands so that t
shaping, cleaning, and softening the skin and nails of someone's hands so that they look neat and well cared for.
Nkechi spent the afternoon manicuring her bride's nails before the wedding photos.
manicure + someone's nails for the nail-care reading
The salon charges thirty dollars for manicuring and painting each customer's nails.
manicure + and + paint, the typical salon pairing
While manicuring the old farmer's rough hands, the nurse softened the dry skin first.
Diego practised manicuring on plastic model hands before working on real clients.
Iris is good at manicuring nails, but she finds cutting hair much harder.
文法句型
manicure + someone
manicure + someone's nails
用法筆記
Object is usually the hands, the nails, or the person whose nails are being cared for. Distinguish from sense 2 (verb/2), where the object is a plant or garden, not a body part.
常見錯誤
2. cutting a plant, lawn, or garden so closely and evenly that every part looks tid
cutting a plant, lawn, or garden so closely and evenly that every part looks tidy and carefully shaped.
The gardeners spent all spring manicuring the hotel lawns into smooth green squares.
manicure + lawn for the close-trimming reading
Eli enjoys manicuring his small hedge until each side is perfectly flat.
The golf club pays a team to keep manicuring the grass around every hole.
Aarav spent the weekend manicuring the rose bushes along his garden path.
Visitors admire how the palace staff keep manicuring the flower beds all year round.
- overgrow
to grow wild and untidy, the opposite result
文法句型
manicure + a plant/garden/lawn
用法筆記
Object is a plant, lawn, hedge, or garden, never a body part. Often passive or in the form 'a manicured lawn / garden' to describe the tidy result.
常見錯誤
manicuring — noun
1. a beauty session in which someone cleans, trims, shapes, and often paints the na
a beauty session in which someone cleans, trims, shapes, and often paints the nails on your hands.
Paul booked a manicure and a haircut on the morning of his job interview.
book + a manicure, the typical verb
Rachel chose a soft pink polish for her first manicure at the new salon.
A good manicure can last almost two weeks without the polish chipping.
Sirin treated her mother to a manicure for her sixtieth birthday.
After weeks of gardening, Hamza finally went for a manicure to fix his rough nails.
- nail treatment
plainer everyday phrase for the same salon service
文法句型
have/get a manicure
give someone a manicure
用法筆記
Countable: you have, get, or book 'a manicure'. The matching foot-and-toenail treatment is a 'pedicure'.