Vinegar

['vɪnɪgə] or ['vɪnɪɡɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative.

(noun.) dilute acetic acid.

亨利錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) A sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous (acetous) fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like.

(a.) Hence, anything sour; -- used also metaphorically.

(v. t.) To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. Acetic acid (dilute and impure).

手打:索菲

解釋/意思:

n. the form of acetic acid generally preferred for culinary purposes—made by the fermentation of vegetable substances from malt or from inferior wines: sourness of temper.—v.t. to apply vinegar to.—adj. Vin′aigrous sour like vinegar ill-tempered.—ns. Vin′egar-cru′et a glass bottle for holding vinegar; Vinegarette′ a vinaigrette; Vin′egar-plant the microscopic fungus which produces acetous fermentation—found in two forms known as mother of vinegar and flowers of vinegar.—adjs. Vin′egary Vin′egarish sour.

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