Mother

['mʌðə] or ['mʌðɚ]

解释:

(noun.) a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation; 'necessity is the mother of invention'.

(noun.) a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); 'the mother of three children'.

(noun.) a term of address for a mother superior.

(noun.) a term of address for an elderly woman.

(noun.) a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar.

(verb.) care for like a mother; 'She fusses over her husband'.

康妮手打--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

(n.) That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.

(n.) An old woman or matron.

(n.) The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.

(n.) Hysterical passion; hysteria.

(a.) Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.

(v. t.) To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.

(n.) A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.

(v. i.) To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.

整理:奥拉

同义词及近义词：

n. Mamma, female parent, dam (applied to a beast).

a. [1]. Native, natural.[2]. Vernacular.

校对:罗伯特

解释:

n. a female parent esp. one of the human race: a woman in relation to her child: a matron: that which has produced anything: the female head of a religious house: a familiar term of address to an old woman.—adj. received by birth as it were from one's mother: natural: acting the part of a mother: originating.—v.t. to adopt as a son or daughter.—ns. Moth′er-church the church from which others have sprung; Moth′er-coun′try -land the country of one's birth: the country from which a colony has gone out; Moth′erhood state of being a mother; Moth′ering a rural English custom of visiting one's parents on Mid-Lent Sunday; Moth′er-in-law the mother of one's husband or wife.—adj. Moth′erless without a mother.—n. Moth′erliness.—adj. Moth′erly pertaining to or becoming a mother: like a mother: parental: tender.—ns. Moth′er-of-pearl′ the nacreous internal layer of the shells of several molluscs esp. of the pearl-oyster so called because producing the pearl; Moth′er's-mark a birth-mark; Moth′er-tongue a person's native language: a language from which another has its origin; Moth′er-wa′ter the residual liquid remaining after the chemical substances it contained have been crystallised or precipitated; Moth′er-wit native wit: common-sense; Moth′er-wort a labiate plant growing in waste places; Queen′-moth′er the mother of a reigning sovereign.—Mother Carey's chicken the stormy petrel or other bird of the same family; Mother-Hubbard a woman's loose flowing gown like that proper to the nursery heroine.—Every mother's son all without exception.

n. dregs or sediments as of vinegar.—v.i. to become concreted.—adj. Moth′ery.

整理:梅