单词 | disinfectant |
释义 | disinfectantWord family (noun) infection disinfectant (adjective) infectious infected (verb) infect ≠ disinfect (adverb) infectiously From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Drugs, medicines Cleaningdisinfectantdis‧in‧fec‧tant /ˌdɪsənˈfektənt/ noun [countable, uncountable]DHCMDa chemical or a cleaning product that destroys bacteria → antisepticExamples from the Corpusdisinfectant• School, their old home, smelled of powerful floor wax and disinfectant, the smell of patriotism.• They are sometimes acidic to neutralise any alkaline residues carried over from the washing process and sometimes include disinfectants.• At the end of each shift, the teams remove their dive suits and drop them in barrels of disinfectants.• Products thus described are more accurately termed disinfectants.• At worst the disinfectant is prematurely exhausted, an effect known as organic overload, allowing large numbers of micro-organisms to survive.• Equally empty once we arrived was the amazingly clean, white-tiled station at Mosholu Parkway, smelling heavily of recently used disinfectant. |
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