| 单词 | China ink |
| 释义 | china1 /chīˈnə/noun
ORIGIN: Prob from the Ch'in dynasty, 3c BC Chīneeˈ noun (archaic; informal) A Chinese person Chinese /chī-nēzˈ/ noun
(in names of commodities, sometimes without cap) of, concerning or relating, etc to China, its language or its people China aster see under aster china bark see cinchona chiˈnaberry noun
china clay noun Kaolin, fine white clay used in making porcelain, etc China goose noun The Chinese goose China grass noun Rami China ink see under ink China jute noun A species of Abutilon Chiˈnaman noun
chiˈnaroot noun Root-stock of Smilax china China rose noun Any of several garden roses, esp Rosa chinensis, a shrub rose, ancestor of many cultivated varieties china stone noun Partly kaolinized granite China tea noun A kind of tea grown in China and smoke-cured Chiˈnatown noun A Chinese quarter in a city or town china tree see chinaberry above. Chinese block noun The Chinese temple block Chinese boxes plural noun A set of boxes nesting one inside another, so that when one box is opened, yet another is found to be opened inside it Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale noun Another name for gai lan Chinese burn noun The burning pain caused by gripping another person's lower arm with two hands and deliberately twisting the flesh in opposite directions Chinese cabbage noun Either of two kinds of plant, Brassica chinensis or Brassica pekinensis, with edible leaves (also called bok choy, pak choi) Chinese checkers or Chinese chequers noun A board game similar to draughts for two, four or six players Chinese Chippendale noun A style of Chippendale furniture in which Chinese motifs are used Chinese copy noun An exact copy, including all the defects in the original Chinese goose noun The largest living goose, Anser (or Cygnopsis) cygnoides, domesticated in E Asia Chinese gooseberry noun Another name for kiwi fruit Chinese herbal medicine noun The use of combinations of various properties and attributes of herbs to restore balance of qi and nourish the constitution Chinese lantern noun A collapsible paper lantern Chinese lantern plant same as winter cherry (see under winter). Chinese layering noun Air layering (qv) Chinese leaves plural noun The edible leaves of Chinese cabbage Chinese paper noun
Chinese pavilion see under pavilion Chinese puzzle noun A very difficult puzzle or problem Chinese radish noun Mooli (also white radish, daikon) Chinese red noun A bright-red colour or pigment Chinese restaurant syndrome noun A short-lived illness with symptoms including chest pain, dizziness and flushing, attributed to the consumption of too much monosodium glutamate, common in Chinese food Chinese sugarcane see under sorghum Chinese temple block noun A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block that is struck with a hammer Chinese wall noun (often in pl) The strict demarcation barrier which must exist between eg the corporate finance and investment advisory departments of a bank, etc in order to ensure that privileged information available to one department is not available to the other and so prevent conflicts of interest from arising Chinese water deer noun A small deer (Hydropotes inermis) of swampland in China and Korea, having tusks and no antlers Chinese whispers singular noun A game in which a message is passed in a whisper from one to another of a group of people, with the result that the final version is different from the original, often amazingly or humorously so Chinese white noun A zinc oxide pigment ink /ingk/noun
To mark, daub, cover, blacken or colour with ink ORIGIN: OFr enque (Fr encre), from LL encaustum the purple-red ink used by the later Roman emperors, from Gr enkauston, from enkaiein to burn in; see encaustic inkˈer noun
inkˈiness noun inkˈy adjective (inkˈier; inkˈiest)
inkˈ-bag or inkˈ-sac noun A sac in some cuttlefishes, containing a black viscid fluid inkˈberry noun (the fruit of) any of various N American shrubs, esp Ilex glabra of the holly family and Phytolacca americana, pokeweed inkˈ-blot noun (psychology) A standardized blot of ink used in the Rorschach test to identify personality traits and disorders ink-blot test same as Rorschach test inkˈ-bottle noun A bottle for holding ink inkˈ-cap noun Any mushroom of the genus Coprinus, such as C. comatus, the shaggy ink-cap inkˈ-eraser noun An eraser of india-rubber treated with fine sand, used for rubbing out ink marks inkˈ-feed noun The passage by which ink is fed to the nib of a fountain pen inkˈ-fish noun A cuttlefish or squid inkˈholder noun
inkˈhorn noun
adjective Pedantic, bookish, obscure inkˈhorn-mate noun (Shakespeare; derogatory) A bookish person, a scribbler inkˈing-rollˈer noun A roller covered with a substance for inking printing type inkˈing-taˈble noun A table or flat surface used for supplying the inking-roller with ink during the process of printing ink-jet printer noun A printer which produces characters on paper by squirting a fine jet of ink that is vibrated, electrically charged and deflected by electrostatic fields inkˈpad noun A pad of inked cloth used in rubber-stamping, fingerprinting, etc ink pencil noun A copying pencil, a pencil made from a substance whose marks when moistened look like ink and can be copied by a printing press ink plant noun A European shrub (Coriaria myrtifolia) or a related species native to New Zealand (C. thymifolia) inkˈpot noun An ink-bottle, or pot for dipping a pen in inkˈ-slinger or US inkˈ-jerker noun (derog sl)
inkˈspot noun A small ink stain inkˈ-stained adjective inkˈstand noun A stand or tray for ink bottles and (usu) pens inkˈstone noun A kind of stone containing sulphate of iron, used in making ink inkˈwell noun A container for ink fitted into, or standing on, a desk, etc China ink, Chinese ink or Indian ink, (US) India ink
ink in
invisible or sympathetic ink A kind of ink that remains invisible on the paper until it is heated marking-ink see under mark1 printing ink see under print sling ink (derog sl)
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