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单词 patent leather
释义

leather /ledhˈər/

noun
  1. A tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed skin
  2. A strap or other piece of leather
  3. The ball in certain games
  4. Human skin (slang)
  5. (in pl) clothes, esp as worn by motorcyclists, or riding breeches made from leather
adjective

Made of leather

transitive verb
  1. To apply leather to
  2. To thrash (informal)
ORIGIN: OE lether leather; Du leder, Ger Leder

Leatheretteˈ® noun

Cloth or paper made to look like leather

leathˈering noun (informal)

A thrashing

leathˈern adjective

Of or like leather

leathˈery adjective

  1. Resembling leather
  2. Tough

leathˈerback noun

A large variety of sea-turtle (also called leathery turtle)

leathˈercloth noun

A fabric coated on one face so as to resemble leather (also called American cloth)

leathˈer-coat noun (Shakespeare)

An apple with a rough coat, the golden russet

leathˈergoods plural noun

Objects and utensils made from leather

leathˈer-head noun

  1. A blockhead
  2. An Australian friarbird with a bare head

leathˈerjacket noun

  1. A name applied to various fishes
  2. A grub of the cranefly

leathˈer-knife noun

A curved knife for cutting leather

leathˈer-lunged /-lungd/ adjective

Strong-lunged, able to shout vigorously

leathˈer-mouthed /-mowdhd/ adjective

Of certain fish, having a mouth like leather, smooth and toothless

leathˈerneck noun

A sailor's name for a soldier or marine (from the leather neckband once worn), esp now a US marine

leathˈer-winged adjective (Spenser)

Having wings like leather

leathˈerwood noun

A N American shrub or small tree (Cyrilla racemiflora) with tough leathery bark

artificial leather

Any of certain plastic materials treated so as to simulate leather

fair leather

Leather not artificially coloured

morocco leather see morocco

patent leather, also japanned or lacquered leather see under patent

Russia leather see under Russian

split leather

Leather split by a machine, for trunk-covers, etc

white leather

Tawed leather, having its natural colour

patent /pāˈtənt or (esp in letters patent and Patent Office, and US) patˈənt/

adjective
  1. Lying open
  2. Conspicuous, obvious, evident
  3. Generally accessible
  4. Protected by a patent
  5. Spreading (botany)
  6. Expanding
  7. Ingenious (informal)
noun
  1. An official document, open, and bearing a government seal, conferring an exclusive right or privilege, such as a title of nobility, or esp the sole right for a term of years to the proceeds of an invention
  2. Something invented and protected by a patent
  3. A privilege
  4. A certificate
transitive verb

To secure a patent for

ORIGIN: L patēns, -entis, prp of patēre to lie open

pāˈtency noun

  1. Openness
  2. Obviousness

pāˈtentable adjective

pātenteeˈ noun

Someone who holds a patent, or to whom a patent is granted

pāˈtently adverb

Openly, obviously

pāˈtentor noun

A person, body, authority, etc that grants a patent

patent agent noun

Someone who obtains patents on behalf of inventors

patent leather noun

Finely varnished leather

patent log noun

A device for recording the speed of a vessel, consisting of a submerged rotator attached by line to a dial on the ship's rail

patent medicine noun

  1. (strictly) a medicine protected by a patent
  2. (loosely) any proprietary medicine, esp one liable to stamp duty, since made by secret process or for some other reason

Patent Office noun

An office for the granting of patents for inventions

patent outside or patent inside noun

A newspaper printed on the outside or inside only, sold to a publisher who fills the other side with his own material, such as local news, etc

patent right noun

The exclusive right reserved by a patent

patent rolls plural noun

The register of patents issued in Britain

patent still noun

A still performing several operations at once, and producing a purer spirit than a pot-still

nothing patent (slang)

Not very good

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