| 单词 | crumb |
| 释义 | crumb (once / 893 pages) 1nv 2n A crumb is a very tiny piece of food. Some recipes instruct you to top a dish with bread crumbs before you bake it. Crumbs are what you're left with after finishing a box of cookies or a bag of tortilla chips — the bits that are too small to eat. You can also talk about other, non-edible types of crumbs, like the crumb of wisdom in an otherwise silly movie or the crumb of information a detective finds at a crime scene. The Old English root is cruma, "crumb," and it's thought that the silent b was influenced by words like dumb. WORD FAMILYcrumb: crumbed, crumbing, crumbly, crumbs+/crumbly: crumbliest, crumbliness USAGE EXAMPLESA: $24 million is a lot for you and me but it’s not very much, its crumbs, in a state budget. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) Mr. Gates, the billionaire philanthropist who arrived at noon for his meeting, avoided such awkwardness by talking to reporters alone, and offering them only crumbs. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) It gets the crumbs from superstar cities: Amazon warehouses, a Microsoft data center. Seattle Times(Dec 12, 2016) 1 1n small piece of e.g. bread or cake Hypo|Hyper breadcrumb crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening cracker crumbscrumbs of crackers used especially for coating or thickening bit, bite, morsel a small amount of solid food; a mouthful 2n a very small quantity of something he gave only a crumb of information about his plans there were few crumbs of comfort in the report Hyper small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude 3v break into crumbs Hyper break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize break or cause to break into pieces 4v remove crumbs from crumb the table Hyper remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract 5v coat with bread crumbs 2crumb a cutlet Hyper coat, surface put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface n a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible Syn|Hyper bum, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot disagreeable person, unpleasant person a person who is not pleasant or agreeable |
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