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单词 muller
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muller1

noun ˈmʌləˈmələr
  • A stone or other heavy weight used for grinding artists' pigments or other material on a slab.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For a good even dispersion, use a muller to force the pigment into suspension.
    • His supplies included ‘1 paint stone,’ ‘knife and muller,’ ‘1 box and drawers of paints,’ and ‘1 painted cupboard and its contents (oil jugs, paint, & c).
    • The pigments used - chrome yellow, red lead, red ocher, and yellow ocher - were ground in linseed oil using a marble muller and stone slab.
    • We recommend you to use a muller when doing a large batch of paint or when an ultra-fine quality of paint is wanted, but, for small quantities a palette knife does a great job.
    Synonyms
    wreck, ruin, spoil, disrupt, undo, upset, play havoc with, make a mess of, put an end to, end, bring to an end, put a stop to, terminate, prevent, frustrate, blight, crush, quell, quash, dash, scotch, shatter, vitiate, blast, devastate, demolish, sabotage, torpedo

Origin

Late Middle English: perhaps from Anglo-Norman French moldre 'to grind'.

muller2

verb ˈmʌləˈmələr
[with object]British informal
  • 1Wreck or destroy (something).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Target: not reached
    1. 1.1 Beat or defeat (an opponent) comprehensively.
      we absolutely mullered Huddersfield in the second half

Origin

1990s: of unknown origin.

 
 

muller1

nounˈmələrˈmələr
  • A stone or other heavy weight used for grinding artists' pigments or other material on a slab.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For a good even dispersion, use a muller to force the pigment into suspension.
    • We recommend you to use a muller when doing a large batch of paint or when an ultra-fine quality of paint is wanted, but, for small quantities a palette knife does a great job.
    • The pigments used - chrome yellow, red lead, red ocher, and yellow ocher - were ground in linseed oil using a marble muller and stone slab.
    • His supplies included ‘1 paint stone,’ ‘knife and muller,’ ‘1 box and drawers of paints,’ and ‘1 painted cupboard and its contents (oil jugs, paint, & c).
    Synonyms
    wreck, ruin, spoil, disrupt, undo, upset, play havoc with, make a mess of, put an end to, end, bring to an end, put a stop to, terminate, prevent, frustrate, blight, crush, quell, quash, dash, scotch, shatter, vitiate, blast, devastate, demolish, sabotage, torpedo

Origin

Late Middle English: perhaps from Anglo-Norman French moldre ‘to grind’.

muller2

verbˈmələrˈmələr
[with object]British informal
  • 1Wreck or destroy (something).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Target: not reached
    1. 1.1 Beat or defeat (an opponent) comprehensively.
      we absolutely mullered Huddersfield in the second half

Origin

1990s: of unknown origin.

 
 
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