Alloy
['ælɒɪ] or ['ælɔɪ]
解释:
(noun.) a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; 'brass is an alloy of zinc and copper'.
(verb.) make an alloy of.
杰米整理--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
(v. t.) The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
(v. t.) A baser metal mixed with a finer.
(v. t.) Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.
(v. t.) To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
(v. t.) To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.
(v. t.) To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
(v. t.) To form a metallic compound.
手打:曼弗雷德
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Combination (of metals) by fusion.[2]. Baser metal (mixed with finer).[3]. Baser element or ingredient.
唐尼手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Admixture, deterioration, adulteration, drawback, diminution, decrement,impairment, debasement, depreciation, disparagement
ANT:Purity, genuineness, enhance, {[muiit]?}, integrity
弗洛整理
解释:
v.t. to mix one metal with another: to reduce the purity of a metal by mixing a baser one with it: (fig.) to debase: to temper or qualify.—n. a mixture of two or more metals (when mercury is one of the ingredients it is an amalgam): a baser metal mixed with a finer: anything that deteriorates.—n. Alloy′age the act of alloying or mixing metals: a mixture of different metals.
巴里整理
娱乐性解释：
To dream of alloy, denotes your business will vex you in its complications. For a woman to dream of alloy, is significant of sorrow and trouble completely hiding pleasure.
艾玛手打
例句:
- A ring or watch case marked 14K or 18K means that fourteen or eighteen parts of it are pure gold, the balance of the twenty-four carats being some sort of alloy, copper being generally used. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- But Scipio Africanus lacked that harder alloy which makes men great democratic leaders. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The alloy of gold and silver is found already formed in nature, and is that most generally known. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The fearlessness of the Chicago confession was melted down into a featureless alloy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- All this made the feast delightful, and when the waiter was not there to watch me, my pleasure was without alloy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- In India, where zinc and copper ore occur together, brass (which is an alloy of the two metals) was similarly hit upon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Nations have sometimes, for the same purpose, adulterated the standard of their coin; that is, have mixed a greater quantity of alloy in it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Their alchemy was closely associated with metallurgy, the making of alloys and amalgams, and th e handicrafts of the goldsmiths and silversmiths. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Palladium, rhodium and tellurium are also met with as alloys of gold. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Alloys, or mixtures of different metals, act in a similar manner, but in varying degrees. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The Cowles process heats to incandescence by the electric current a mixture of alumina, carbon and copper, the reduced aluminum alloying with the copper. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Of these four were of pure gold weighing two talents and a half each, and the others of gold alloyed with silver weighing two talents. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The leaves are about three and a quarter inches square and are produced in ten different shades of color, according as the gold was alloyed with much or little copper or silver. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
埃尔莎整理