Gold

[gəʊld] or [ɡold]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.; 'the child was as good as gold'; 'she has a heart of gold'.

(noun.) great wealth; 'Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold'--Ben Jonson.

(noun.) coins made of gold.

(noun.) a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia.

(adj.) made from or covered with gold; 'gold coins'; 'the gold dome of the Capitol'; 'the golden calf'; 'gilded icons' .

坎蒂丝手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Alt. of Goolde

(v. t.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.

(v. t.) Money; riches; wealth.

(v. t.) A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.

(v. t.) Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold.

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解釋/意思:

n. one of the precious metals much used for coin: money: riches: anything very precious: yellow gold colour.—adj. made of or like gold.—ns. Gold′-beat′er one whose trade is to beat gold into gold-leaf; Gold′-beat′ers′-skin the outer coat of the c鎐um of the ox; Gold′-beat′ing.—adj. Gold′-bound (Shak.) encompassed with gold.—ns. Gold′-cloth cloth woven with threads of gold; Gold′-crest a golden-crested bird of genus Regulus; Gold′-dig′ger one who digs for or mines gold esp. a placer-miner; Gold′-dust gold in dust or very fine particles as it is sometimes found in rivers.—adj. Gold′en made of gold: of the colour of gold: bright: most valuable: happy: highly favourable.—v.t. to become golden.—ns. Gold′en-age an early period in history a time of innocence and happiness; Gold′en-eye a species of oceanic ducks which breed in the Arctic regions and are winter visitants of Britain.—adj. Gold′en-hilt′ed (Tenn.) having a hilt made of or mounted with gold.—adv. Gold′enly (Tenn.) splendidly delightfully.—ns. Gold′en-rod any herb of the genus Solidago of the aster family; Gold′-fē′ver a mania for seeking gold; Gold′-field a region where gold is found; Gold′finch the most beautiful of English finches with very handsome plumage in which black crimson-red yellow and white are in the adult male exquisitely mingled; Gold′fish a Chinese and Japanese fresh-water fish nearly allied to the carp—in its native waters it is brownish but when domesticated becomes golden-yellow; Gold′-foil gold beaten into thin sheets used by dentists; Gold′ilocks Gold′ylocks a common name for Ranunculus (q.v.); Gold′-lace lace made of gold-thread; Gold′-leaf gold beaten extremely thin or into leaves; Gold′-lil′y the yellow lily; Gold′-mine a mine from which gold is dug; Gold′-plate vessels and utensils of gold collectively; Gold′smith a worker in gold and silver; Gold′spink (Scot.) the goldfinch; Gold′stick the colonel of a regiment of life-guards who attends the sovereign on state occasions—he receives a gold rod with his commission; Gold′-thread a ranunculaceous plant found from Denmark to Siberia with evergreen leaves resembling those of the strawberry: a thread formed of a strip of gold-leaf laid over a thread of silk; Gold′-wash′er one who obtains gold by washing it from sand and gravel: a cradle or other implement for washing gold from auriferous dirt; Gold′-wire wire made of or covered with gold.—Golden beetle the name popularly given to many members of the Chrysomela genus of coleopterous insects marked by their metallic splendour of colour; Golden bull (L. bulla aurea) an edict issued by the Emperor Charles IV. in 1356 mainly for the purpose of settling the law of imperial elections; Golden fleece in Greek mythology the fleece of the ram Chrysomallus the recovery of which was the object of the famous expedition of the Argonauts—it gave its name to a celebrated order of knighthood in Austria and Spain founded in 1429; Golden horde the Kipchaks a Turkic people whose empire was founded in central and southern Russia by Batu in the 13th century; Golden legend (L. aurea legenda) a celebrated medieval collection of lives of the greater saints the work of Jacobus de Voragine (1230-98); Golden number for any year the number of that year in the Metonic Cycle and as this cycle embraces nineteen years the golden numbers range from one to nineteen; Golden rose a rose formed of wrought gold and blessed by the Pope in person on the fourth Sunday in Lent usually presented to some Catholic prince.

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