Fluid
['fluːɪd] or ['fluɪd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) continuous amorphous matter that tends to flow and to conform to the outline of its container: a liquid or a gas.
(noun.) a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure.
(adj.) subject to change; variable; 'a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty'; 'everything was unstable following the coup' .
(adj.) affording change (especially in social status); 'Britain is not a truly fluid society'; 'upwardly mobile' .
(adj.) in cash or easily convertible to cash; 'liquid (or fluid) assets' .
(adj.) characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape .
尤妮斯錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
(n.) A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.
編輯:迈尔斯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Liquid, not solid.
n. Liquid, liquor.
伊米莉亚整理
解釋/意思:
adj. that flows as water: liquid or gaseous.—n. a substance in which the particles can move about with greater or less freedom from one part of the body to another.—adjs. Flu′idal; Fluid′ic; Fluid′iform.—vs.t. Fluid′ify Flu′idise to make fluid.—ns. Flu′idism; Fluid′ity Flu′idness a liquid or gaseous state.—adv. Flu′idly.
手打:波莱特
例句/造句/用法:
- How a living animal obtains its quantity of this fluid, called fire, is a curious question. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- They are called the two fluid batteries, because in place of a single acidulated bath in which the dissimilar metals were before placed, two different liquid solutions were employed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- But its use had been growing; it was providing a fluid medium for trade and enterprise, and changing economic conditions profoundly. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- These are some of the same lot; they were made as follows: The meat was chopped, put into the preserving fluid for one night, and then mixed with the other material in the ordinary way. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Gerald was attractive, his blood seemed fluid and electric. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Blood's the word, said James, gulping the ruby fluid down. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Mix, and add one-half its volume of pure coal-tar and boil to a fluid mass. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- To the one who is learning, it is fluid, partial, and connected through his personal occupations. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Dentist's chairs have been developed until it is only necessary for the operator to turn a valve governing a fluid, generally oil, under pressure to raise or lower the chair and the patient. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Part of a fluid, having more of what it dissolves, will communicate to other parts that have less. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- This matter of lightning or of electricity is an extreme subtile fluid, penetrating other bodies, and subsisting in them, equally diffused. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- My only food consisted of vegetable milk from the plants which gave so bounteously of this priceless fluid. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It seemed to him that aqueous vapor always exists as a distinct fluid maintaining its identity among the other fluids of the atmosp here. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Acid sulphuric, a sufficient quantity to decompose the ammonia fluoride and making the mixture of a semi-fluid consistency. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Biot on the action of fluids on light, he placed the fluids in a trough formed by two plates of glass cemented together at an angle. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- It seemed to him that aqueous vapor always exists as a distinct fluid maintaining its identity among the other fluids of the atmosp here. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- These machines use some 2,500 gallons of lubricating oils and 11,000 gallons of cutting fluids each day. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Jan Baptista van Helmont, a Flemish physician (1577-1644), was the first to apply the term, _gas_ to the elastic fluids which resemble air in physical properties. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Glass, water and other solids and fluids each have different powers of refraction. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Later he learned to locate the cause within himself, and constructed the theory that the fluids of the body had become disordered. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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