| 单词 | atomize |
| 释义 | atomize (once / 35388 pages) 1v 2v To atomize something is to transform it into a fine spray. A perfume bottle atomizes your cologne so you can spritz it on your neck. When a substance is lightly sprayed, something needs to atomize it first. Atomize can also mean breaking something into small pieces or units: "Graduating from college seemed to atomize her group of friends, separating and spreading them across the country." In the 1840s, atomize meant "reduce to atoms," and by 1865 it also meant "reduce to a fine mist." It comes from the Latin atomus, "indivisible particle," from the Greek root atomos, "indivisible, uncut." WORD FAMILYatomize: atomization, atomized, atomizer, atomizes, atomizing+/atom: atomic, atomise, atomism, atomize, atoms/atomic: atomically, subatomic/atomise: atomisation, atomised, atomiser, atomising/atomism: atomistic/atomistic: atomistical, atomistically/atomizer: atomizers USAGE EXAMPLES“The city is atomized,” says Sarwar Jahan, a professor of urban and regional planning at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. New York Times(Sep 23, 2016) But autonomous trucks will take years to incorporate into an atomized transportation system. Seattle Times(Oct 06, 2016) A healthy nation isn’t just an atomized mass of individual economic and legal units. Seattle Times(Oct 04, 2016) 1 1v break up into small particles the fine powder had been atomized by air Syn|Hyper atomise break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize break or cause to break into pieces 2v spray very finely 2atomize perfume Syn|Hyper atomise spray scatter in a mass or jet of droplets v strike at with firepower or bombs Syn|Hyper atomise, nuke, zap bomb, bombard throw bombs at or attack with bombs |
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