单词	daub
释义	daub1 verbdaub2 noun daubdaub1 /dɔːb $ dɒːb/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINdaub1 Origin: 1300-1400 Old French dauber, from Latin dealbare ‘to make white, whitewash’ Verb Table VERB TABLE daub Simple Form Present I, you, we, they daub he, she, it daubs Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they daubed Present perfect I, you, we, they have daubed he, she, it has daubed Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had daubed Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will daub Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have daubed Continuous Form Present I am daubing he, she, it is daubing you, we, they are daubing Past I, he, she, it was daubing you, we, they were daubing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been daubing he, she, it has been daubing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been daubing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be daubing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been daubing Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Anti-government slogans were daubed on the roads. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A blue line had been daubed across his forehead and round his short white hair. He daubed more polish on to a dark splatter on the toe. Her dark dress has a creamy collar and cuffs, daubed with salmon trim. Her face was always carefully rouged, her mouth daubed generously with salve. Since then, he claims, he's been repeatedly threatened, and now his garden shed has been daubed with graffiti. The previous user had also daubed the ducts along the roof of Biff's control bubble with vermilion slogans. While a police constable was in the living room, the car parked outside was being daubed by the youth. White memory, daubed, smeared ... The land remembers. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► wattle and daub  walls made of wattle and daub (=this frame covered with clay) to put paint or a soft substance on something without being very careful:  soldiers’ faces daubed with black mud daub1 verbdaub2 noun daubdaub2 noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS I don't take to these modernistic people who just splash on daubs of paint. The consistency of the mud and straw daub for the walls was arrived at through experiment. The mystery was the origin of the large quantities of daub. The third alternative, and the most straight forward interpretation, was that the daub was contemporary with the backfilling of the drain. This daub could have come from one of three distinct periods. Three pieces of daub were dated and provided an average age and standard error of 830 plus/minus 40 years. word sets WORD SETS► Construction adobe, nounasphalt, nounbatten, nounbeam, nounblueprint, nounboard, nounboom, nounbreeze-block, nounbrick, nounbricklayer, nounbrickwork, nounbucket, nounbuilder, nounbuilding contractor, nounbuilding site, nounbulldoze, verbbulldozer, nounbuttress, nouncaisson, nouncantilever, nouncastellated, adjectivecavity wall, nouncement, nouncement, verbconcrete, adjectiveconcrete, nounconcrete, verbconduit, nounconstruct, verbcrane, nouncrosspiece, noundaub, noundigger, noundowel, noundrain, noundrainage, noundraughtsman, noundry-stone wall, noundry wall, nounduckboards, noundustsheet, nounembankment, nounerect, verberection, nounfence, verbfencing, nounfiberboard, nounfibreboard, nounfloor plan, nounfoundation, noungantry, noungatepost, noungirder, noungreenfield site, nounhalf-timbered, adjectivehard hat, nounhod, nounhousing association, nounhousing project, nounjackhammer, nounjib, nounjoist, nounkeystone, nounlath, nounleading, nounmansard, nounmortar, nounpanelling, nounpanel pin, nounpave, verbpavement, nounpebbledash, nounpier, nounpile driver, nounplank, nounplanking, nounplaster, nounplaster, verbplasterboard, nounplasterer, nounplate glass, nounpoint, verbPortakabin, nounprime, verbprimer, nounproperty developer, nounputty, nounquantity surveyor, nounrebuild, verbreconstruct, verbreconstruction, nounrefurbish, verbreinforced concrete, nounrendering, nounrenovate, verbrevetment, nounroof, nounroof, verbroofing, nounrooftop, nounrubble, nounsand, verbsandstone, nounsaw, verbscaffold, nounscaffolding, nounshovel, nounsite, nounskip, nounslab, nounslate, nounspan, verbstarter home, nounsteam shovel, nounstilt, nounstucco, nounsurface, verbsuspension bridge, nounthatch, nounthatched, adjectivetile, nountile, verbtiling, nountimber, nountopcoat, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► wattle and daub  walls made of wattle and daub (=this frame covered with clay) 1[countable] a small amount of a soft or sticky substancedaub of a daub of paint2[uncountable] technical mud or clay used for making walls → wattle and daub at wattle(1)
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