| 单词 | mote |
| 释义 | mote (once / 4226 pages) n Say the word: mote. It's short and quick, isn't it? The word corresponds to its meaning, which is something tiny: a speck of dust, a bit of fluff, a speckle of gold in the prospector's pan. We're not sure of the origin of the word mote, except that it is related to Germanic words meaning "sawdust or grit, tiny dust particles." We think of a mote as the tiniest of objects, but astronomer Carl Sagan demonstrates a different perspective when he looked at a photograph of Earth taken from a great distance by Voyager I and said, "We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." WORD FAMILYmote: motes USAGE EXAMPLESMote Marine Laboratory coral biologist Cory Walter says corals in the Lower Keys don’t seem as severely impacted by the outbreak. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) One of the motes in this cloud, or at least drifting nearby, is run out of a house in Seattle’s Denny Blaine neighborhood. Seattle Times(Nov 18, 2016) But just as she can make visitors to the Exploratorium consider eye floaters as art, she can make you treat MoMA’s masterpieces as mere motes. New York Times(Oct 24, 2016) n (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything Syn|Hypo|Hyper atom, corpuscle, molecule, particle, speck grain a relatively small granular particle of a substance grindingmaterial resulting from the process of grinding chylomicrona microscopic particle of triglycerides produced in the intestines during digestion; in the bloodstream they release their fatty acids into the blood flyspecka tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly identification particlea tiny particle of material that can be added to a product to indicate the source of manufacture granulea tiny grain Microtaggant(trademark) a microscopic and traceable identification particle used to trace explosives or other hazardous materials or to prevent counterfeiting material, stuff the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object |
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