Spice

[spaɪs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food.

(noun.) aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative.

(verb.) make more interesting or flavorful; 'Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer'.

埃迪校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Species; kind.

(n.) A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc.

(n.) Figuratively, that which enriches or alters the quality of a thing in a small degree, as spice alters the taste of food; that which gives zest or pungency; a slight flavoring; a relish; hence, a small quantity or admixture; a sprinkling; as, a spice of mischief.

(v. t.) To season with spice, or as with spice; to mix aromatic or pungent substances with; to flavor; to season; as, to spice wine; to spice one's words with wit.

(v. t.) To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices.

(v. t.) To render nice or dainty; hence, to render scrupulous.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Flavoring, flavor, relish, taste, savor, tincture, dash, infusion, admixture, sprinkling.[2]. Grain, particle, small quantity.

編輯:利拉

解釋/意思:

n. an aromatic and pungent vegetable substance used as a condiment and for seasoning food—pepper cayenne pepper pimento nutmeg mace vanilla ginger cinnamon cassia &c.: a characteristic touch or taste smack flavour: anything that adds piquancy or interest: an aromatic odour.—v.t. to season with spice: to tincture vary or diversify.—ns. Spice′-box an ornamental box for keeping spices: (coll.) a hot-tempered person; Spice′-bush an aromatic American shrub of the laurel family; Spice′-cake a cake flavoured with spice of some kind.—adjs. Spiced impregnated with a spicy odour: over-scrupulous; Spice′ful aromatic.—ns. Spī′cer one who seasons with spice; Spī′cery spices in general: a repository of spices: spiciness; Spice′-tree an evergreen tree of the Pacific United States yielding a fine hard wood—the Mountain-laurel California-laurel Olive- or Bay-tree and Cajeput; Spice′-wood the spice-bush.

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