英语词汇“puddle”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	puddle
释义	pud·dle I. \ˈpəd^əl\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English podel, pothel; akin to Old English pudd ditch, Low German pudel puddle, and perhaps to Old English puduc wart — more at pudding 1. a. (1) : a shallow depression full of water and especially of muddy or dirty water < a hard rain leaves puddles in the road > (2) : a little pool of any kind < prodded a little puddle of beer by his glass — Earle Birney > < puddles of moonlight on the floor — T.W.Duncan > b. archaic : ditch water < hard roots my only food, foul puddle all my drink — John Crowne > c. obsolete : pond, marsh < near to a long puddle or moorish ground, of some four miles long — Edward Barton > 2. a. (1) : something that resembles a puddle in form < most men live in a little puddle of light thrown by the gig-lamps of habit — Aldous Huxley > < a small puddle of minced veal on toast — Robert Standish > (2) : something suggestive of a puddle of foul or dirty liquid : a contaminating circumstance or condition : mess, sink < would have us believe … that in spite of all the puddles through which the priestly politician splashed to reach his ends, no spot or stain ever smutched his gown — V.L.Parrington > b. : muddle < stand and look over the little puddle of empty desks — W.A.White > 3. a. (1) : an earthy mixture (as of clay, sand and gravel) worked while wet into a compact mass that becomes impervious to water when dry (2) : tamper c b. : a thin mixture of soil and water for puddling plants 4. : the molten portion of a weld II. verb (puddled ; puddled ; puddling \-d(^ə)liŋ\ ; puddles) Etymology: Middle English podelen, pothelen, from podel, pothel, n. *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to dabble or wade around in a puddle < in the ooze … a brood of goslings puddled — Rockwell Kent > b. : to dawdle or mess around : putter < children spent yesterday afternoon puddling in paint, plasticene, and paste — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > 2. a. : to make a puddle < spray heaved in over the side, puddling on the slippery deck — Irwin Shaw > specifically : urinate < baby … alternately dozed and puddled — Ann Leighton > b. : to become a puddle < slithering on the puddling brown snow — William Sansom > *transitive verb* 1. a. : to stir up : make muddy or turbid : muddle, roil < great pails of puddled mire — Shakespeare > < the bartender went on puddling an old-fashioned — E.B.White > b. archaic : to make murky : befuddle, confuse < something sure of state … hath puddled his clear spirit — Shakespeare > c. : to immerse in a liquid < the crystals are puddled with syrup to make a fluid mass — Oil-Power > specifically : to separate (ore) from sticky clay by washing in a shallow tank 2. a. (1) : to work (a wet mixture of earth or concrete) into a dense impervious mass < hand methods of compacting concrete mixtures include puddling, spading, and tamping — J.H.Bateman > specifically : to combine with water into an impervious cover or lining < a dew pond … constructed of straw and puddled clay — Norman Wymer > (2) archaic : to cover or line with puddle < puddle the seams of the rock on that side of the well — Henry Stephens > b. (1) : to work (metal) while molten < enabling the iron to be puddled into a bloom — Juliusz Slaski > specifically : to form (molten metal) into a desired shape < carefully puddled ingots of aluminum into “contemporary amorphic baroque” blobs, then welded them to the steeple's base — Time > (2) : to subject (iron) to the process of puddling c. : to texture (stage scenery) by running together small colored puddles of paint 3. a. : to strew or pock with puddles < meltwater puddles the flat sea ice > < cattle puddle the soft ground around the water hole with their hooves > b. : to render (soil) hard and dense by compacting < splash erosion … puddles surface soils and causes surface seals — Scientific Monthly > < once soils are puddled badly, it may require several seasons to restore them to good tilth — A.F.Gustafson > c. (1) : to dip the roots of (a plant) in a thin mud before transplanting (2) : to saturate the soil around (a plant) in order to settle the dirt around the roots or to supply moisture, nutriment, or an insecticide
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