Butter

['bʌtə] or ['bʌtɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use.

(noun.) a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head.

(verb.) spread butter on; 'butter bread'.

編輯:桑德拉--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

(n.) Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.

(v. t.) To cover or spread with butter.

(v. t.) To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.

(n.) One who, or that which, butts.

編輯:蒂姆

解釋/意思:

n. an oily substance obtained from cream by churning.—v.t. to spread over with butter.—ns. Butt′er-bird the name in Jamaica for the rice-bunting; Butt′er-boat a table vessel for holding melted butter; Butt′er-bump a bittern; Butt′er-bur -dock the sweet coltsfoot; Butt′ercup a plant of the Crowfoot genus with a cup-like flower of a golden yellow; Butt′er-fing′ers one who lets a cricket-ball he ought to catch slip through his fingers; Butt′er-fish (see Gunnel); Butt′erfly the name of an extensive group of beautiful winged insects: (fig.) a light-headed person.—adj. light flighty like a butterfly.—ns. Butt′erine an artificial fatty compound sold as a substitute for butter—since 1887 only allowed to be sold under the names margarine or oleo-margarine; Butt′er-milk the milk that remains after the butter has been separated from the cream by churning; Butt′er-nut the oily nut of the North American white walnut the tree itself or its light-coloured close-grained wood: the nut of a lofty timber-tree of Guiana—the souari-nut; Butt′er-scotch a kind of toffee containing a large admixture of butter; Butt′er-tree a genus of plants found in the East Indies and in Africa remarkable for a sweet buttery substance yielded by their seeds when boiled; Butt′er-wife Butt′er-wom′an a woman who makes and sells butter; Butt′er-wort a genus of small plants found in marshy places so called either from the power of the leaves to coagulate milk or from their peculiar sliminess.—adj. Butt′ery like butter.

校對:赛克