单词 | milky |
释义 | milky (once / 2208 pages) adj Anything milky looks like milk — it's whitish and cloudy. Soapy bathwater, pale skin, and the sap inside some plants can all be described as milky. You can use milky to talk about a friend's clear, light complexion, and you can also use it to describe something that has milk in it: "I like my tea sweet and milky." Sometimes you'll find this word describing something that's clouded, like an elderly dog's milky eyes. Our galaxy, in fact, is known as the Milky Way because its shining band of stars can't be individually seen without a telescope, so they appear cloudy or milky. WORD FAMILYmilky: milkier, milkiest, milkily+/milk: foremilk, milked, milker, milking, milkless, milklike, milks, milky/milker: milkers USAGE EXAMPLESFrankincense is more treelike, and its resin is milky, creating cloudy white marbles when dried. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) The Event Horizon Telescope will spy on the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s centre. Nature(Dec 21, 2016) The Milky Way flows through this image, which encompasses more than 300,000 galaxies. Nature(Dec 15, 2016) adj resembling milk in color not clear milky glass Syn milklike, whitish opaque not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight |
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