figurative. Anything which enfolds, enwraps, or encloses as a mantle; an immaterial thing likened to or described as a covering. Also formerly: †a…
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| 释义 | the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > enfolding or enveloping > that which or one who > an enveloping medium (5) mantleeOE figurative. Anything which enfolds, enwraps, or encloses as a mantle; an immaterial thing likened to or described as a covering. Also formerly: †a… bathc1386 figurative and transferred. Any enveloping or surrounding medium, producing effects analogous to those of bathing. middle1570 An intervening substance; = medium, n. 5. Obsolete. swathe1615 transferred. A natural formation constituting a wrapping; †a covering membrane, integument; an object that enwraps something, as a cloud. medium1664 A pervading or enveloping substance; the substance in which an organism lives; esp. one in which microorganisms, cells, etc., are cultured. In… |
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