Silver
['sɪlvə] or ['sɪlvɚ]
解释:
(noun.) coins made of silver.
(noun.) a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography.
(verb.) turn silver; 'The man's hair silvered very attractively'.
(verb.) make silver in color; 'Her worries had silvered her hair'.
(verb.) coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam; 'silver the necklace'.
(adj.) having the white lustrous sheen of silver; 'a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap'; 'repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen' .
(adj.) made from or largely consisting of silver; 'silver bracelets' .
厄纳校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5.
(n.) Coin made of silver; silver money.
(n.) Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
(n.) The color of silver.
(a.) Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
(a.) Resembling silver.
(a.) Bright; resplendent; white.
(a.) Precious; costly.
(a.) Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
(a.) Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
(v. t.) To cover with silver; to give a silvery appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.
(v. t.) To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
(v. t.) To make hoary, or white, like silver.
(v. i.) To acquire a silvery color.
克里斯整理
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Silvery, of silver.[2]. White, bright, of the color of silver.[3]. Soft and clear (as sound), mellifluous, euphonious, not harsh.
埃罗尔校对
解释:
n. a soft white metal capable of a high polish: money made of silver: anything having the appearance of silver.—adj. made of silver: resembling silver: white: bright: precious: gentle: having a soft and clear tone: of high rank but still second to the highest.—v.t. to cover with silver: to make like silver: to make smooth and bright: to make silvery.—v.i. to become silvery.—ns. Sil′ver-bath (phot.) a solution of silver-nitrate for sensitising collodion-plates for printing; Sil′ver-beat′er one who beats out silver into thin foil.—adjs. Sil′ver-black black silvered over with white; Sil′ver-bright (Shak.) as bright as silver; Sil′ver-bus′kined having buskins adorned with silver.—ns. Sil′ver-fir a coniferous tree of the genus Abies whose leaves show two silvery lines on the under side; Sil′ver-fish a name given to the atherine to artificially bred gold-fish the sand-smelt the tarpon: any species of Lepisma a thysanurous insect—also Bristletail Walking-fish Silver-moth Shiner &c.; Sil′ver-fox a species of fox found in northern regions having a rich and valuable fur; Sil′ver-glance native silver sulphide; Sil′ver-grain the medullary rays in timber.—adjs. Sil′ver-gray having a gray or bluish-gray colour; Sil′ver-haired having white or lustrous gray hair; Sil′ver-head′ed having a silver head: with white hair.—ns. Sil′veriness the state of being silvery; Sil′vering the operation of covering with silver: the silver so used.—v.t. Sil′verise to coat or cover with silver:—pr.p. sil′verīsing; pa.p. sil′verīsed.—ns. Sil′verite one who opposes the demonetisation of silver; Sil′ver-leaf silver beaten into thin leaves; Sil′verling (B.) a small silver coin.—adv. Sil′verly (Shak.) with the appearance of silver.—adjs. Sil′vern made of silver; Sil′ver-plā′ted plated with silver.—n. Sil′ver-print′ing the production of photographic prints by the use of a sensitising salt of silver.—adj. Sil′ver-shaft′ed carrying silver arrows as Diana.—ns. Sil′versmith a smith who works in silver; Sil′ver-stick an officer of the royal palace—from his silvered wand.—adjs. Sil′ver-tongued plausible eloquent; Sil′ver-voiced (Shak.) having a clear sweet voice like the sound of a silver musical instrument; Sil′ver-white (Shak.) white like silver; Sil′very covered with silver: resembling silver: white: clear soft mellow.
埃尔维斯手打
娱乐性解释：
To dream of silver, is a warning against depending too largely on money for real happiness and contentment. To find silver money, is indicative of shortcomings in others. Hasty conclusions are too frequently drawn by yourself for your own peace of mind. To dream of silverware, denotes worries and unsatisfied desires.
布赖恩特编辑
娱乐性解释：
A metallic form of opium, smoked by Presidential impossibilities.
校对:克劳斯
例句:
- The silver, being sensitive to the action of light, is there to record the image. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- He had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- To obtain a true photograph, the negative is placed on a piece of sensitive photographic paper, or paper coated with a silver salt in the same manner as the plate and films. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- For example, if the sun's rays fall upon silver chloride, a chemical action immediately begins, and as a result we have two separate substances, chlorine and silver. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The daguerreotype was made on a thin sheet of copper, silver plated on one side, polished to a high degree of brilliancy, and made sensitive by exposing it to the fumes of iodine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- And they alone of all the citizens may not touch or handle silver or gold, or be under the same roof with them, or wear them, or drink from them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- A background and entourage and flooring of deepest crimson threw her out, white like alabaster--like silver: rather, be it said, like Death. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- In the accompanying diagram, the ends of the flat silvered glasses _a c_, _b c_, are inclined at an angle of 60 degrees; therefore the circle is completed by the junction of six sectors. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The silvered mountains in the distance, the almost stationary moon hanging in the sky, the cacti-studded valley below me were not of Mars. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It was a handsome, lively, quick face, full of change and motion; and his hair was a silvered iron-grey. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- When dressed, I sat a long time by the window looking out over the silent grounds and silvered fields and waiting for I knew not what. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- I see the moon of a calm winter night, float full, clear, and cold, over the inky mass of shrubbery, and the silvered turf of my grounds. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Yonder silvered pavement reminds me of that white shore we believe to be beyond the death-flood. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Thus, when the vessel is filled with the silvering liquid, a voltaic current is established, and the deposition is effected on the articles connected with the negative pole. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- This is excellent in silvering brass and copper articles. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
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