英语词汇“powder”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	powder
释义	pow·der I. \ˈpau̇də(r)\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English poudre, from Old French, from Latin pulver-, pulvis dust — more at pollen 1. : a substance composed of fine particles: as a. : dry pulverized earth or disintegrated matter : dust b. : the spores of lycopodium — see lycopodium powder c. or powder snow : fine dry light snow < five inches new powder; skiing excellent > — compare corn snow 2. : a powdered preparation : a product in the form of discrete usually fine particles < metal powders > as a. : a medicine or medicated preparation in powdered form < antiseptic powder > < digestive powder > < powders … prepared extemporaneously by the pharmacist — E.F.Cook & E.W.Martin > b. : a finely ground or dehydrated condiment or food < curry powder > < ice cream powder > c. : a usually perfumed cosmetic especially for the skin or hair 3. a. : any of various solid explosives used chiefly in gunnery and blasting: as (1) : gunpowder (2) : black powder (3) : smokeless powder (4) : dynamite b. : impetus or explosive force < the postponement seemed to add powder to the … issue — Newsweek > II. verb (powdered ; powdered ; powdering \-d(ə)riŋ\ ; powders) Etymology: Middle English poudren, from Old French poudrer to cover with dust, from poudre, n. *transitive verb* 1. a. : to cover with or as if with powder : dust < a friar … stood at the door, his habit and beard powdered with snow — Robert Brennan > < mildew … powders it as white as a clown — Andrew Young > b. : to apply a cosmetic powder to < pulled out her compact and powdered her nose > < their heads powdered with gold — Effie Gray > 2. : scatter, bestrew < nose powdered with golden freckles — Ellen Glasgow > < white chiffon powdered with minute gold beads — Country Life > specifically : to sow with small heraldic charges < powder their red mantlings with gold billets — W.H. St. John Hope > — compare semé 3. archaic : to sprinkle with a condiment < give you leave to powder and eat me too — Shakespeare > specifically : to preserve by salting 4. a. : to reduce to powder by grinding : comminute, pulverize, triturate b. : to convert into powder by means other than grinding *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to be reduced to powder : become pulverized : crumble into dust < two skeletons … powdered upon exposure, and could not be measured — C.S.Coon > specifically : chalk < using too thin varnish in printer's ink causes it to powder > b. : to shed powder < the bulrushes … were ripe and powdering — Rumer Godden > 2. : to apply or use cosmetic powder < girls not old enough to paint and powder > < actors powder with the left hand for luck > 3. slang : to go away in a hurry : decamp, escape < instead of powdering out of town right away, I buy some new clothes — H.L.Dutkin > III. noun (-s) Etymology: origin unknown chiefly dialect : a sudden impetuous rush or irrational hurry — often used with in or with < a knocking at the gate, laid on in haste with such a powder — Samuel Butler †1680 > IV. intransitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) chiefly dialect : to rush or hurry especially impetuously < gallops up to us, the groom powdering afterward — W.M.Thackeray >
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