Distemper
[dɪ'stempə] or [dɪ'stɛmpɚ]
解釋/意思:
(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.
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解釋/意思:
(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.
校對:西蒙
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Disease, malady, complaint, disorder, ail, ailment, illness, indisposition, sickness.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Disorder, disease, ailment
ANT:Health, sanity, vigor, convalescence
錄入:内丽
解釋/意思:
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
例句/造句/用法:
- I forget what Mr. Denham's distemper was; it held him a long time, and at length carried him off. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- With the advance of summer, and the increase of the distemper, rents were unpaid, and their remittances failed them. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- You'll be walking in your sleep next, my woman, and playing the whole round of your distempered antics. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Why hovered before my distempered vision the mere furniture, while the rooms and the locality were gone? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I panted for enterprises beyond my childish exploits, and formed distempered dreams of future action. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- In Italy they naturally took us for distempered Garibaldians, and set a gunboat to look for any thing significant in our changes of uniform. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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