| 单词 | soluble |
| 释义 | soluble (once / 1348 pages) 1adj 2adj Sugar is soluble. It dissolves easily in water. You can also use the word to describe a problem that can be solved easily. How are the two definitions of soluble related? When you dissolve something in a liquid, the combination is known as a solvent or a solution. All of these "sol-" words descend from the Latin word that means loosen or unfasten. When you dissolve something in water, you loosen the molecules. And if you think of a problem like a knot, to solve it is to loosen it up. WORD FAMILYsoluble: insoluble, solubility, solubleness, solubly, unsoluble+/insolubility: insolubilities/insoluble: insolubility, insolubly/solubility: solubilities USAGE EXAMPLESCompleted in 1984, the dam sits on a foundation of soluble rock. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) Gravity pulls the water through the filter, extracting soluble compounds from the coffee grains during the flow. BBC(Nov 15, 2016) The amyloid serves as an infectious seed, which recruits soluble host PrPC for growth. Nature(Nov 08, 2016) 1 adj (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water) 2Syn|Ant alcohol-soluble soluble in alcohol dissoluble, dissolvablecapable of dissolving fat-solublesoluble in fats disintegrable, meltablecapable of melting oil-solublesoluble in oil water-solublesoluble in water indissoluble, insoluble (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved non-water-soluble, water-insolublenot soluble in water adj susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained the puzzle is soluble Syn|Ant explicable capable of being explicated or accounted for answerablecapable of being answered resolvable, solvablecapable of being solved insoluble admitting of no solution or explanation incomprehensible, inexplicableincapable of being explained or accounted for insolvable, unresolvable, unsoluble, unsolvablenot easily solved |
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