| 单词 | water dust |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater dust water dust n. rare very small droplets of water suspended in air (as in fine spray or clouds) or formed by condensation on a surface. [Perhaps compare German Wasserdunst , lit. ‘water haze’ (mid 17th cent. or earlier; compare dust n.1), also Wasserstaub, lit. ‘water dust’ (18th cent. in this sense).] ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > in form of fine particles water dust1714 1714 tr. M. Misson New Voy. Italy (ed. 4) I. ii. 363 There, this River..throws it self down from a steep Rock, three hundred Foot high, and falls into the Cavity of another Rock, against which the Water dashes with such Violence, that it rises like a Cloud of Water-Dust [Fr. un nüage de poussiere]. 1873 J. Tyndall Forms of Water (ed. 3) 4 The liquid particles thus produced form a kind of water-dust of exceeding fineness, which floats in the air, and is called a cloud. 2000 J. A. Amato Dust 3 The vapor that condenses on a dry plate—water dust, so to speak—is 500,000 times thinner than a sheet of writing paper. < as lemmas |
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