| 单词 | lactate |
| 释义 | lactate (once / 23782 pages) vn To lactate is to produce milk for feeding babies. All female mammals who give birth lactate. A mother cow has to lactate in order to feed her calves, and so that she can be milked by a farmer too. Mothers who nurse their babies lactate, whether they're humans, cats, goats, or skunks. Lactation, "the secretion of milk," came first, from the Late Latin lactationem, "a suckling," from the root lac, "milk." WORD FAMILYlactate: lactated, lactating, lactation+/lactation: lactations USAGE EXAMPLESEach sensor has a corresponding color—blue, yellow, orange, or red—and each one measures something different: chloride, glucose, pH, or lactate. Science Magazine(Nov 23, 2016) More worryingly, gill raker plates have been marketed as an aid for lactating mothers. Time(Nov 21, 2016) Pregnant or lactating women and young children also receive year-round food assistance under the program, he added. New York Times(Oct 19, 2016) 1v give suck to Syn|Ant|Hyper breastfeed, give suck, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse suck draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth bottlefeed feed (infants) with a bottle feed, give give food to 2n a salt or ester of lactic acid Hyper ester formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water salta compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) |
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