| 单词 | sterile |
| 释义 | sterile (once / 803 pages) adj A sterile person can't have kids, and a sterile environment is bland and boring. In both cases, sterile means lifeless. When you hear about a sterile person, it means they can't have kids: sterile women can't get pregnant, and sterile men can't be fathers. But the concept of sterility applies to things, too. An empty, white room with nothing in it is sterile. And a surgeon's instruments better be sterile — meaning they're free from germs and bacteria. WORD FAMILYsterile: sterileness, sterilise, sterility, sterilize+/sterilise: sterilisation, sterilised, steriliser, sterilises, sterilising/sterilised: unsterilised/steriliser: sterilisers/sterility: sterilities/sterilization: sterilizations/sterilize: sterilization, sterilized, sterilizer, sterilizes, sterilizing/sterilized: unsterilized/sterilizer: sterilizers USAGE EXAMPLESTargeting Islamic militant groups in Egypt’s northern Sinai Desert, it also destroyed hundreds of homes in the volatile border area to create a “sterile zone.” Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) The section produces it as a sterile product to extend its shelf life, she said. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) Perhaps the most unique project was installing a positive air pressure system typically found only in sterile hospitals. Washington Times(Dec 17, 2016) 1adj incapable of reproducing Syn|Ant infertile, unfertile barren not bearing offspring sterilised, sterilizedmade infertile unfertilised, unfertilized, unimpregnatednot having been fertilized unfruitfulnot fruitful; not conducive to abundant production impotentlacking power or ability unproductivenot producing or capable of producing fertile capable of reproducing conceptive, impregnablecapable of conceiving fecundcapable of producing offspring or vegetation fertilizablecapable of being fertilized rankvery fertile; producing profuse growth fruitfulproductive or conducive to producing in abundance potent, stiff, stronghaving a strong physiological or chemical effect productiveproducing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) 2adj free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms a sterile operating area Syn aseptic antiseptic thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms 3adj deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention a sterile ideology lacking in originality Syn unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive uncreative not creative |
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