Curry

['kʌrɪ] or ['kɝi]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice.

(verb.) treat by incorporating fat; 'curry tanned leather'.

(verb.) season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking.

整理:塞丽娜--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

(v. t.) To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.

(v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.

(n.) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.

(n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.

(v. t.) To flavor or cook with curry.

鲍里斯校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Curry-powder.

手打:卡尔

解釋/意思:

n. a kind of sauce or seasoning much used in India compounded of pepper ginger and other spices: a stew mixed with curry-powder.—n. Curr′y-pow′der.

v.t. to dress leather: to rub down and dress a horse: to beat: to scratch:—pr.p. curr′ying; pa.p. curr′ied.—ns. Curr′ier one who curries or dresses tanned leather; Curr′y-comb an iron instrument or comb used for currying or cleaning horses; Curr′ying.—Curry favour (corruption of Curry favell to curry the chestnut horse) to seek favour by flattery.

obsolete forms of Quarry.

校對:路易丝