turpentine

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Cleaning, Visualturpentinetur‧pen‧tine /ˈtɜːpəntaɪn $ ˈtɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] DHCa type of oil used for making paint more liquid or removing it from clothes, brushes etcExamples from the Corpusturpentine• The place stank of paraffin and turpentine and dry rot.• More like turpentine, but it's really effective.• She found only half a pint of turpentine.• Tom picked up a brush and moistened it in the turpentine cup.• I felt the velvet drapes and smelt the turpentine but loathed the girlish shoes I had to pose in.• He told him it was turpentine.• The warehouse walls blended into each other like a painting drenched with turpentine.Origin turpentine (1300-1400) Old French tourbentine, from Latin terebinthina, from terebinthus tree from which turpentine is obtained, from Greek terebinthos

单词	turpentine
释义	turpentine From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Cleaning, Visualturpentinetur‧pen‧tine /ˈtɜːpəntaɪn $ ˈtɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] DHCa type of oil used for making paint more liquid or removing it from clothes, brushes etcExamples from the Corpusturpentine• The place stank of paraffin and turpentine and dry rot.• More like turpentine, but it's really effective.• She found only half a pint of turpentine.• Tom picked up a brush and moistened it in the turpentine cup.• I felt the velvet drapes and smelt the turpentine but loathed the girlish shoes I had to pose in.• He told him it was turpentine.• The warehouse walls blended into each other like a painting drenched with turpentine.Origin turpentine (1300-1400) Old French tourbentine, from Latin terebinthina, from terebinthus tree from which turpentine is obtained, from Greek terebinthos
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