| 单词 | polyester |
| 释义 | polyester (once / 20170 pages) n Polyester is a synthetic fabric used in everything from kayaks to shirts. Polyester clothes were popular in the 1970s, but they stink if you disco dance in them for too long. Polyester doesn’t breathe! You might think of polyester as a cheap alternative to a natural fabric like wool, silk, or cotton. In certain situations, though, polyester is ideal. Shirts that are a blend of cotton and polyester, for example, don't wrinkle easily; and a sofa covered in polyester is easy to clean. Polyester jackets are often quick drying or even waterproof. Polyester comes from a combination of two common words in chemistry, polymer (having many parts) and -ester (a chemical compound). WORD FAMILYpolyester: polyesters USAGE EXAMPLESHer clothing style was refined professionalism — affordable polyester and discreet darts. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) It would produce annually up to 1.8 million tons of ethylene, a polyester component in clothing, bottles and construction materials. Washington Times(Dec 22, 2016) Its machines turn polyester and other synthetic fibers into custom-designed threads. New York Times(Dec 02, 2016) 1n a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer Hyper plastic generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives esterformed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water 2n any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong and weather resistant Hypo|Hyper polyester fiber a quick-drying resilient synthetic fiber consisting primarily of polyester synthetic resin a resin having a polymeric structure; especially a resin in the raw state; used chiefly in plastics 3n any of a large class of synthetic fabrics Hypo|Hyper Dacron, Terylene a kind of polyester fabric cloth, fabric, material, textile artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers |
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