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单词 thyme
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Definition of thyme in English:

thyme

noun tʌɪmtaɪm
mass noun
  • A low-growing aromatic plant of the mint family. The small leaves are used as a culinary herb and the plant yields a medicinal oil.

    Genus Thymus, family Labiatae: many species, in particular common (or garden) thyme (T. vulgaris)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Add all the spices, parsley, thyme, bay leaf, shallots, garlic, vanilla pod and lemon slices.
    • Rosemary, thyme and dill are also good decorative herbs to plant with cabbages.
    • I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding cowslip grow.
    • Home grown herbs would have included coriander, dill, thyme, opium poppy and summer savoury.
    • I also ignored the dried thyme that was provided in my bundle and used fresh thyme and rosemary because I had it on hand.
    • I prepared chicken stock with bouillon cubes, adding sprigs of thyme and bay leaves.
    • Basil, marjoram and thyme grow well in small containers; bay, lavender and rosemary need larger ones.
    • Grey mullet is popular in Mediterranean dishes and goes well with rosemary, thyme, garlic and fennel.
    • Other powerful herbs include dill, garden thyme, rosemary and peppermint.
    • Dishes are mostly enhanced with lemons and fresh or dried mountain herbs such as thyme and oregano.
    • A rare delight is a pig's kidney the size of a fist baked slowly with thyme, tarragon, cream and snippets of bacon.
    • I usually have a pot of parsley on the kitchen windowsill, as well as some tarragon and thyme.
    • In front of the beech hedge, a patch of un-cultivated land overflowed with flowering thyme, rosemary and gorse.
    • When shopping for thyme plants you will use for cooking, pinch off a piece of leaf to taste before you buy.
    • Over a medium heat, in a large pan, soften the onion, bay leaves and thyme in the butter for one minute.
    • Toss on a mass of fresh herbs, such as thyme or basil, or rub it with garlic and olive oil.
    • Squeeze out the excess liquid with your hands and add the beaten egg, salt, flour, parsley and thyme leaves, mixing well.
    • It was often burned with juniper and thyme as a means of cleansing a room of witches and bad spirits.
    • For the ham, boil in water with thyme, garlic, bay leaves, onions and leeks for two hours then break into largish pieces.
    • In a blender, blitz together the balsamic vinegar, thyme leaves and garlic.

Derivatives

  • thymy

  • adjective ˈtʌɪmiˈtaɪmi
    • Peppered Parmesan ‘French fries’ were all peppery at the front of the tongue and thymy at the back.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There was the good pasture for the horses and thymy hill-grass for the sheep.
      • The air is sweetened by the thymy odours of mountain and moor.
      • He remembers the windblown thymy moors of the west of Scotland.
      • Above hung the thymy hill where dry grasses and bracken murmured or screamed in the wind.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French thym, via Latin from Greek thumon, from thuein 'burn, sacrifice'.

Rhymes

begrime, Chaim, chime, climb, clime, crime, dime, grime, half-time, I'm, lime, mime, mistime, part-time, prime, rhyme, rime, slime, sublime, sub-prime, time
 
 

Definition of thyme in US English:

thyme

nountaɪmtīm
  • A low-growing aromatic plant of the mint family. The small leaves are used as a culinary herb and the plant yields a medicinal oil.

    Genus Thymus, family Labiatae: many species, in particular common (or garden) thyme (T. vulgaris)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Toss on a mass of fresh herbs, such as thyme or basil, or rub it with garlic and olive oil.
    • For the ham, boil in water with thyme, garlic, bay leaves, onions and leeks for two hours then break into largish pieces.
    • In a blender, blitz together the balsamic vinegar, thyme leaves and garlic.
    • Other powerful herbs include dill, garden thyme, rosemary and peppermint.
    • When shopping for thyme plants you will use for cooking, pinch off a piece of leaf to taste before you buy.
    • Grey mullet is popular in Mediterranean dishes and goes well with rosemary, thyme, garlic and fennel.
    • Dishes are mostly enhanced with lemons and fresh or dried mountain herbs such as thyme and oregano.
    • Basil, marjoram and thyme grow well in small containers; bay, lavender and rosemary need larger ones.
    • A rare delight is a pig's kidney the size of a fist baked slowly with thyme, tarragon, cream and snippets of bacon.
    • Home grown herbs would have included coriander, dill, thyme, opium poppy and summer savoury.
    • Add all the spices, parsley, thyme, bay leaf, shallots, garlic, vanilla pod and lemon slices.
    • I also ignored the dried thyme that was provided in my bundle and used fresh thyme and rosemary because I had it on hand.
    • I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding cowslip grow.
    • Rosemary, thyme and dill are also good decorative herbs to plant with cabbages.
    • I prepared chicken stock with bouillon cubes, adding sprigs of thyme and bay leaves.
    • Squeeze out the excess liquid with your hands and add the beaten egg, salt, flour, parsley and thyme leaves, mixing well.
    • I usually have a pot of parsley on the kitchen windowsill, as well as some tarragon and thyme.
    • In front of the beech hedge, a patch of un-cultivated land overflowed with flowering thyme, rosemary and gorse.
    • Over a medium heat, in a large pan, soften the onion, bay leaves and thyme in the butter for one minute.
    • It was often burned with juniper and thyme as a means of cleansing a room of witches and bad spirits.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French thym, via Latin from Greek thumon, from thuein ‘burn, sacrifice’.

 
 
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