Scent

[sent] or [sɛnt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced.

(verb.) catch the scent of; get wind of; 'The dog nosed out the drugs'.

手打:奥齐--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.

(v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.

(v. i.) To have a smell.

(v. i.) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

(n.) That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.

(n.) Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.

(n.) The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.

手打:特雷弗

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Odor, smell, perfume, fragrance, redolence, balminess.

v. a. [1]. Smell, get scent of.[2]. Perfume, fill with odor, give odor to.

亚历克斯編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Odor, perfume, {[tmeU]?},[See {[PAOEAKT]?}]

校對:内奥米

解釋/意思:

v.t. to discern by the sense of smell: to perfume: to have some suspicion of.—v.i. to become odoriferous: to smell.—n. a perfume: odour: sense of smell: chase followed by the scent: course of pursuit: scraps of paper strewed on the ground by the pursued in the boys' game of hare and hounds.—ns. Scent′-bag the pouch of an animal which secretes an odoriferous substance; Scent′-bott′le a small bottle for holding perfume; Scent′-box.—adjs. Scent′ed perfumed; Scent′ful highly odoriferous: quick of scent: having a good nose as a dog.—n. Scent′-gland a glandular organ which secretes such substances as musk or castoreum.—adv. Scent′ingly allusively: not directly.—adj. Scent′less having no scent or smell: destructive of scent.—ns. Scent′-or′gan a scent-gland; Scent′-vase a vessel with a pierced cover designed to contain perfumes.

手打:尤赖亚