Tartar
['tɑːtə] or ['tɑrtɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc.
(n.) A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.
(n.) A person of a keen, irritable temper.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
(n.) See Tartarus.
編輯:利拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Argol, bitartrate of potash (crude).[2]. Ill-tempered person.
安吉拉校對
解釋/意思:
n. a mixture of bitartrate of potash and tartrate of lime being a deposit formed from wine and known in its crude form as argol: a concretion which sometimes forms on the teeth.—adjs. Tar-tā′reous Tar′tarous consisting of or resembling tartar; Tartar′ic pertaining to or obtained from tartar.—v.t. Tar′tarise to impregnate or treat with tartar.—adjs. Tartral′ic Tartrel′ic derived from tartar.—n. Tar′trāte a salt of tartaric acid.—Tartar emetic a compound of potassium and antimony.—Cream of tartar (see Cream).
n. a native of Tartary in Asia: an irritable person or one too strong for his assailant.
黛博拉校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Dissolve the sal soda, borax, and sal tartar in the hot water and add the other ingredients. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- With Peter the Great (1682-1725) the empire of Muscovy broke away from her Tartar traditions and entered the sphere of French attraction. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is dangerous to say I am like Tartar; it suggests to me a claim to be treated like Tartar. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It is composed of pure copper, 100 parts; pure tin, 17 parts; magnesia, 6 parts; tartar of commerce, 9 parts; sal-ammoniac, 3. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Tartar, Tartar! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- His revenue is, in the one case, profit, in the other intereSt. The revenue of a Tartar or Arabian chief consists in profit. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Flour, terra alba, alum, and chalk are the chief ingredients used in the adulteration of cream of tartar. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- She would say, 'Take a salamander,' as if a general should command a private to catch a Tartar. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Many housewives look askance at ready-made baking powders and prefer to bake with soda and sour milk, soda and buttermilk, or soda and cream of tartar. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Seidlitz powder is a simple remedy consisting of two powders, one containing bicarbonate of soda, and the other, some acid such as cream of tartar. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I stayed longer in the room than usual; I could not bear to be out of her presence; I returned to it, and basked in it, like Tartar in the sun. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Wet or fair, calm or storm, she took her daily ride over Stilbro' Moor, Tartar keeping up at her side, with his wolf-like gallop, long and untiring. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Here is Tartar coming; he will tread upon them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She convoyed Donne past his dread enemy Tartar, who, with his nose on his fore paws, lay snoring under the meridian sun. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In a few armies since the Tartar's first invasion of the West were men executed summarily for as little reason as they were under his command. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- As yet only China knew of the Huns; there were no Turks in Western Turkestan or anywhere else then, no Tartars in the world. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Germans called them Hungarians and Tartars, the French, Bohemians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Doubtless fugitives from the Tartars to the east also contributed to the Cossack mixture. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Among the Tartars, even the women have been frequently known to engage in battle. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Apparently they were a tribe of Nestorian Tartars in Mongolia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In point of obedience, they were always much inferior to what is reported of the Tartars and Arabs. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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