| 单词 | mortar |
| 释义 | mortar (once / 817 pages) 1n 2nv 3n A mortar is a bowl-shaped container that you can grind things in using a pestle. You probably buy your spices pre-ground at the store, but if you wanted to be old-school, you could grind them yourself with a mortar and pestle. Mortar is an old word — it comes from Old English, and using a mortar to smash things up is old way of cooking. It's also the builder's paste used between bricks. If you've heard the phrase "brick and mortar," that's a style of building, as well as a general phrase for something with a real building (as opposed to an internet business). And it's also a gun that fires high bullets that land short-range. WORD FAMILYmortar: mortared, mortaring, mortars USAGE EXAMPLESThe older woman is instructing the younger one, who is lost in thought in the midst of crushing garlic with a copper mortar and pestle. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) But he says too often people who discover old grenades or a mortar shell will haul it to the police station. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) They watched mortar shells or stray bullets kill their relatives and neighbors. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 n a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle 2Hyper vessel an object used as a container (especially for liquids) 1n used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall Hyper building material material used for constructing buildings 2v plaster with mortar 3mortar the wall Hyper daub, plaster coat with plaster n a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range Syn|Hyper howitzer, trench mortar high-angle gun a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges |
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