| 单词 | mop |
| 释义 | mop (once / 1660 pages) 1nv 2v A mop is a tool for cleaning a floor. Most mops have a long handle and a sponge or bundle of absorbent strings on one end. If someone says that your hair looks like a mop, that's not a compliment. When you use a mop, you mop the floor. Mops can be used dry, but more often they're dunked in a soapy bucket of water before they mop the floor. You can also "mop up" a mess or a spill, even if you're using a cloth, a sponge, or a paper towel instead of a mop. The earliest mops were used to clean ships' decks, and the word comes from the Latin mappa, "napkin." WORD FAMILYmop: mopped, mopper, mopping, mops+/mopper: moppers/mopping: moppings USAGE EXAMPLESThere are so few staff that Studdard, the superintendent, helps scrape food from lunch trays and mop the bathroom floors. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) “Hopefully, at that point they will be just mopping up.” Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) “This is the room where they used me as a human mop,” he said. New York Times(Oct 08, 2016) 1 1n cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors Syn|Hypo|Hyper swab, swob dry mop, dust mop, dustmop a dry swab for dusting floors sponge mopa wet mop with a sponge as the absorbent cleaning device, cleaning equipment, cleaning implement any of a large class of implements used for cleaning 2v to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop 2Mop the hallway now He mopped her forehead with a towel Syn|Hypo|Hyper mop up, wipe up swab, swob wash with a swab or a mop spongesoak up with a sponge absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up take in, also metaphorically v make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip mop and mow Syn|Hyper mow, pout grimace, make a face, pull a face contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state |
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