| 单词 | odor |
| 释义 | odor (once / 505 pages) n An odor is anything you can smell — like a scent or an aroma. If you sniff a sour odor in your gallon of milk, you should probably pour it down the sink instead of drinking it. Most people are more likely to use the word odor for unpleasant smells, like the odor of your uncle's stinky cigars or the musty odor in your grandmother's attic. You can also use the word odor in a figurative way, to mean a feeling or impression given by something: "The whole bank seemed full of the odor of money and greed." Odor is Latin, meaning "a smell or a scent." WORD FAMILYodor: deodorant, deodorise, deodorize, odorize, odorless, odorous, odors+/deodorant: deodorants/deodorise: deodorised, deodorises, deodorising/deodorize: deodorized, deodorizing/inodorous: inodorously/odorize: odorized/odorless: odorlessly/odorous: inodorous, odorously USAGE EXAMPLESThe Balfour Declaration was issued at the height of the imperial age, when colonization was still in good odor. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) City officials say tests show hydrogen sulfide levels are back to normal, but that strong odors persist. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) The police were called to the building and discovered the bodies after a neighbor called to complain about an odor. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1n any property detected by the olfactory system Syn|Hypo|Hyper aroma, odour, olfactory property, scent, smell bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness a pleasingly sweet olfactory property fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, rankness, stinkinessthe attribute of having a strong offensive smell muskinesshaving the olfactory properties of musk rancidnessthe property of being rancid B.O., body odor, body odourmalodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe property a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class 2n the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form Syn|Hypo|Hyper odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell scent an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced aroma, fragrance, perfume, scenta distinctive odor that is pleasant fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench, stinka distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant acridityhaving an acrid smell muskthe scent of a greasy glandular secretion from the male musk deer incensethe pleasing scent produced when incense is burned niff, pongan unpleasant smell aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation |
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