Puddle
['pʌd(ə)l] or ['pʌdl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry.
(verb.) make a puddle by splashing water.
(verb.) mess around, as in a liquid or paste; 'The children are having fun puddling in paint'.
(verb.) work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud.
(verb.) dip into mud before planting; 'puddle young plants'.
(verb.) subject to puddling or form by puddling; 'puddle iron'.
(verb.) wade or dabble in a puddle; 'The ducks and geese puddled in the backyard'.
編輯:奥尔加--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.
(n.) Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water.
(v. t.) To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
(v. t.) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
(v. t.) To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.
(v. t.) To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron.
(v. i.) To make a dirty stir.
編輯:拉维恩
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Pool (of dirty water).
约翰娜編輯
解釋/意思:
n. an ill-shaped awkward person.
n. a small pool of muddy water: a mixture of clay and sand.—v.t. to make muddy: to stir up mud: to make water-tight by means of clay: to convert into bar or wrought iron.—v.i. to make a dirty stir.—ns. Pudd′ler one who turns cast-iron into wrought-iron by puddling; Pudd′ling the act of rendering impervious to water by means of clay: the process of converting cast into bar or wrought iron.—adj. Pudd′ly dirty.
校對:托妮
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To find yourself stepping into puddles of clear water in a dream, denotes a vexation, but some redeeming good in the future. If the water be muddy, unpleasantness will go a few rounds with you. To wet your feet by stepping into puddles, foretells that your pleasure will work you harm afterwards.
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例句/造句/用法:
- This puddle is an important source of the Jordan. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Why, they were never masters of anything liquid larger than a puddle. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Quashy shall lie down in every puddle, that I may walk over dry-shod. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- At which the children got up from the puddle instantly, and ran off to pay their court to Peggy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The puddles which collect at the foot of a hill after a storm are muddy because of the particles of soil gathered by the water as it runs down the hill. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The water stands in deep puddles in the depressions forward of their after shoulders. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It is not four feet deep anywhere, and it is all puddles and pools. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- When water falls upon a field, it soaks into the ground, or collects in puddles which slowly evaporate, or it runs off and drains into small streams or into rivers. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- This process of puddling lasted for about an hour and a half and entailed extremely severe labour on the workman. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- We have described how by Cort's puddling process tremendous labour was imposed on the workmen in stirring the molten metal by hand with rabbles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- This process is called _puddling_, and consists in exposing the molten metal to an oxidizing current of flame and air. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In 1784 Henry Cort of England introduced the puddling process and grooved rolls. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- A much more thorough and satisfactory result in the production of a pure malleable iron is thus obtained than is possible by hand puddling. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Puddling had been invented, but not successfully used before. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Henry Cort and Puddling, 1784, and its Subsequent Wonderful Value. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- To bring it into wrought iron, which is malleable and ductile, it is puddled and refined, which involves chiefly the burning out of the carbon and silicon. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
編輯:蒂姆