| 单词 | puddle |
| 释义 | puddle (once / 2269 pages) 1nv 2vn 3v 4v 5v A puddle is a small pool, such as one that forms on a sidewalk after a rain shower. A little boy with new rain boots might decide to jump in every puddle he sees on his way to school. It's charming to see a puddle on a brick walkway or to watch a duck wash itself in a puddle. It's less charming to find a puddle in your basement after three days of rain. You can use puddle as a verb, too, to say, "I'm watching your cereal milk puddle in the middle of the table and wondering when you're planning to clean it up." Puddle comes from the Old English pudd, "ditch or furrow." WORD FAMILYpuddle: puddled, puddler, puddles, puddling+/puddler: puddlers USAGE EXAMPLESAfter all, they're just playing a private jet puddle jump away in a different part of the Bahamas. Golf Digest(Nov 30, 2016) There is no water flow, nothing to show that this small puddle will eventually be defined by a course, miles away, as an abundant river. BBC(Nov 27, 2016) After the human dinner tables rose and toweled off, a “cuddle puddle” formed in the center of the space. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) 1 1n a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain Syn|Hypo|Hyper pool billabong a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently mud puddlea puddle of mud wallowa puddle where animals go to wallow body of water, water the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) 2n something resembling a pool of liquid his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines Syn|Hyper pool place, spot, topographic point a point located with respect to surface features of some region 3v make into a puddle puddled mire Syn|Hyper muddle rile, roil make turbid by stirring up the sediments of 4v make a puddle by splashing water Hyper plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash dash a liquid upon or against 5v wade or dabble in a puddle The ducks and geese puddled in the backyard Hyper wade walk (through relatively shallow water) 6v mess around, as in a liquid or paste 2The children are having fun puddling in paint Hyper mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, putter, tinker do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly 1v work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud Hyper bundle, compact, pack, wad compress into a wad 2v subject to puddling or form by puddling puddle iron Hyper forge, form, mold, mould, shape, work make something, usually for a specific function 3n a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry 3Hyper covering material a material used by builders to cover surfaces v dip into mud before planting 4puddle young plants Hyper plant, set put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground v mix up or confuse 5Syn|Hyper addle, muddle confuse, jumble, mix up assemble without order or sense v eliminate urine Syn|Hypo|Hyper urinate pass after the manner of urine ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, stool, take a craphave a bowel movement wet make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating staleurinate, of cattle and horses egest, eliminate, excrete, pass eliminate from the body |
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