| 单词 | dust |
| 释义 | dust (once / 96 pages) nv Dust is the fine, powdery substance that settles on surfaces over time or is blown around outdoors. A junk shop might be full of beautiful old furniture and books, all covered with dust. There's the dust you clean with a feather duster, and then there's the verb "to dust." You can dust your bookshelves, cleaning the dust from them, but you can also dust the surface of a cake with powdered sugar, covering it lightly. Informally, when something "gathers dust," it goes unused, and when "the dust settles," a situation calms down. WORD FAMILYdust: dusted, duster, dusting, dustlike, dusts, dusty+/duster: dusters/dusty: dustier, dustiest, dustily, dustiness USAGE EXAMPLESIn Tokyo, this preparation is typically served over rice with a light dusting of the powdered Japanese pepper called sansho. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) Dozens of gated communities sit mostly empty, gathering dust. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Construction began in 2007, to the dismay of some businesses and residents who endured shaking, clanging and dust as the work proceeded. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air the furniture was covered with dust Hypo|Hyper chalk dust dust resulting from writing with a piece of chalk fallout, radioactive dustthe radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion particulate, particulate matter a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) 2n free microscopic particles of solid material astronomers say that the empty space between planets actually contains measurable amounts of dust Hypo|Hyper interplanetary dust microscopic particles in the interplanetary medium material, stuff the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object 3n the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up Syn|Hypo|Hyper debris, detritus, junk, rubble slack dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve rubbish, scrap, trash worthless material that is to be disposed of 4v cover with a light dusting of a substance dust the bread with flour Hyper cover provide with a covering or cause to be covered 5v rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image Hyper blur, smear, smudge, smutch make a smudge on; soil by smudging 6v distribute loosely Syn|Hypo|Hyper disperse, dot, scatter, sprinkle spray scatter in a mass or jet of droplets spraybe discharged in sprays of liquid plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swashdash a liquid upon or against splash, splosh, sprinklecause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force bespangledot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects aerosolise, aerosolizedisperse as an aerosol showerspray or sprinkle with atomise, atomizespray very finely mistspray finely or cover with mist syringespray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe puddlemake a puddle by splashing water slosh, slosh around, slush, slush aroundspill or splash copiously or clumsily saltsprinkle as if with salt drizzle, moistenmoisten with fine drops discharge pour forth or release 7v remove the dust from dust the cabinets Hyper clean, make clean make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from |
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