| 单词 | oil-burning |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoil-burning oil-burning adj. and n. (a) adj. that uses oil as its fuel; figurative (of an addiction) severe; consuming; expensive; (b) n. the consumption or use of oil as a fuel. ΚΠ 1886 Marine Engineer 7 283/2 The oil-burning apparatus has been fitted. 1924 Domest. Engin. 44 191/2 The development of oil burning for land purposes has been retarded by the fluctuations in the price of oil. 1938 Amer. Speech 13 188 Oil-burning habit, a ravenous appetite for drugs. 1961 V. C. Miles Domest. Vapouriser Burner Pract. vii. 83 The vapourising type burner is being used in increasing quantities for the conversion of solid fuel boilers to oil burning. 1989 R. Baker Good Times iii. 24 For winter there was an oil-burning furnace which roared merrily into action at the touch of a thermostat. 1994 ‘Dr. John’ & J. Rummel Under Hoodoo Moon 87 He had an oil-burning dope habit. < as lemmas |
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