Distemper

[dɪ'stempə] or [dɪ'stɛmpɚ]

解释:

(noun.) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery.

(noun.) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder.

(noun.) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder.

(noun.) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals.

(verb.) paint with distemper.

安妮编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

(v. t.) To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.

(v. t.) To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.

(v. t.) To intoxicate.

(v. t.) To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size.

(v. t.) An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.

(v. t.) Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.

(v. t.) A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.

(v. t.) Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.

(v. t.) Political disorder; tumult.

(v. t.) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.

(v. t.) A painting done with this preparation.

校对:西蒙

同义词及近义词：

n. Disease, malady, complaint, disorder, ail, ailment, illness, indisposition, sickness.

克利夫顿录入

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Disorder, disease, ailment

ANT:Health, sanity, vigor, convalescence

录入:内丽

解释:

n. a coarse mode of painting in which the colours are mixed in a watery glue white of egg &c. chiefly used in scene-painting and in staining paper for walls.—Also Destem′per.

n. a morbid or disorderly state of body or mind: disease esp. of animals specifically a typhoid inflammation of the mucous membranes of young dogs: ill-humour.—v.t. to derange the temper: to disorder or disease.—adj. Distem′perate not temperate immoderate: diseased.—n. Distem′perature (arch.) want of proper temperature: intemperateness disturbance: uneasiness of mind: indisposition.—p.adj. Distem′pered disordered: intemperate ill-humoured put out of sorts.

整理:尼古拉斯