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单词 do brown
释义

brown /brown/

adjective
  1. Of a dark, woody or dusky colour, tending towards red or yellow
  2. Dark-complexioned
  3. Tanned or sunburnt
  4. Formerly conventionally applied to a sword, perh burnished, perh rusty, perh bloodstained
noun
  1. A dark-reddish earthy or woody colour
  2. A brown pigment
  3. A brown object or thing
  4. A copper coin (obs sl)
  5. A close-flying number of game birds, esp (lit and figurative) fire into the brown to shoot into an area without aiming at a particular target
transitive verb
  1. To give a brown colour to
  2. To roast until brown
intransitive verb

To become brown

ORIGIN: OE brūn; Du bruin, Ger braun

brownˈie noun

  1. A benevolent creature who may secretly help with domestic work (folklore)
  2. (with cap; in full Brownie Guide) a member of the senior of two junior sections of the Guides, having a brown (since 1990 yellow) uniform
  3. (a square piece of) a kind of rich, chewy chocolate cake containing nuts (orig N American)
  4. A simple, early, mass-produced make of box camera (also Brownˈie®)
  5. A kind of currant bread (Aust and NZ)

brownˈing noun

  1. The process of making or becoming brown
  2. A product for making gravy, etc brown

brownˈish adjective

brownˈness noun

brownˈy adjective

Of a brownish colour

brown ale noun

A dark-coloured mild beer

brown algae or brown seaweeds plural noun

The Phaeophyceae, one of the main divisions of the algae

brown-bagˈ transitive verb and intransitive verb (US)

To bring (one's lunch, or alcohol) in a brown paper bag or something similar

brown bear noun

The common bear of Europe and Asia

brown Bess noun

The old British flintlock musket (from its brown walnut stock)

Brown Betty noun (US)

A baked pudding containing apples and other fruit

brown bill noun

A foot soldier's or watchman's halberd, painted brown

brown bread noun

Any dark-coloured bread, esp that made of unbolted flour, eg wholemeal

adjective (rhyming sl)

Dead

brown coal noun

Lignite

brown dwarf see dwarf

brown earth noun

A type of soil with a rich brown surface layer, formed under deciduous forest in temperate humid regions

brown fat noun

Heat-producing fat cells of a brownish colour, found in various parts of the body, eg between the shoulder-blades, thought to be activated by overeating and thus to have a bearing on weight gain

brownˈfield adjective

Denoting a site that has previously been developed for urban or industrial use (cf greenfield)

brown George noun

  1. A hard biscuit
  2. A brown earthenware vessel

brown goods plural noun (commercial jargon)

A term covering types of electrical equipment orig wooden-cased, such as audio and TV (as opposed to traditionally white kitchen appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines)

Brownie Guide see brownie above.

Brownie Guider see brown owl below.

brownie point noun (sometimes ironic, usu in pl)

A notional good mark or commendation for doing well

brown lung (disease) noun

Byssinosis

brownˈ-nose transitive verb and intransitive verb (vulgar sl)

To act obsequiously (towards), curry favour (with)

noun

An extremely obsequious person (also brownˈ-noser)

brownˈout noun (esp US)

A reduction in electrical power, etc, a partial blackout

brown owl noun

  1. The tawny owl
  2. (with caps; now correctly Brownie Guider) the former official, now the popular, name for a woman who has charge of a group of Brownies

brown paper noun

Coarse strong paper used chiefly for wrapping

brown rat noun

The larger and commoner of the two British rats (often black)

brown rice noun

Rice hulled but not polished

brown rot noun

Any of several plant diseases causing browning

brown sauce noun

Any brown-coloured savoury sauce, now esp a sharp-flavoured commercially bottled variety

brown seaweeds see brown algae above.

Brownˈshirt noun

  1. A member of Hitler's organization of storm troopers
  2. A Nazi
  3. A fascist

brown spar noun

A brownish variety of dolomite

brownˈstone noun (US)

  1. A dark-brown sandstone, regarded as the favourite building material of the prosperous classes
  2. A building made of this

brown stout noun

A kind of dark ale

brown study noun

  1. A reverie
  2. Absent-mindedness

brown sugar noun

Unrefined or partially refined sugar

brownˈtail moth noun

A brown and white European moth (Europroctis chrysorrhoea) that damages the leaves of trees

brown trout noun

A kind of trout common in Europe, dark-coloured on the back and lighter underneath

browned off (informal)

  1. Fed up
  2. Bored
  3. Downhearted, dispirited

do brown (slang)

To deceive or take in completely

do1 /doo or də/

transitive verb (2nd sing (archaic) doˈest or dost /dust/, 3rd sing does /duz/, also (archaic) doˈeth or doth /duth/; pat did; prp doˈing; pap done /dun/; in Spenser, infinitive doen, done, and donne, 3rd pl pat doen)
  1. To accomplish, complete
  2. To finish
  3. To exhaust
  4. To work at
  5. To perform work upon
  6. To put in some condition, eg to clean, to tidy
  7. To render
  8. To confer
  9. To bestow
  10. To provide
  11. To perform
  12. (of a vehicle) to (have the power to) travel at a (maximum) speed of
  13. To beat up, thrash, assault (informal)
  14. To prepare, set in order, arrange
  15. To cook
  16. To cheat, or overreach (informal)
  17. To prosecute (informal)
  18. To raid, rob (slang)
  19. To treat
  20. To make the round of, see the sights of (informal)
  21. To spend (a period of time) in prison
  22. To take or use (a drug) (slang)
  23. To mimic, impersonate
  24. To have sexual intercourse with (slang)
  25. To put, place (obsolete)
  26. To cause (obsolete)
intransitive verb
  1. To act, be active
  2. To behave
  3. To fare
  4. To thrive
  5. To suffice
  6. To be just good enough
  7. To serve (with for)
  8. To arrange, devise or effect in respect of something or someone (with with)

—Do serves as a substitute for a verb that has just been used. It is used as an auxiliary verb (where there is no other auxiliary) with an infinitive in negative, interrogative, emphatic, and rhetorically inverted sentences, in some dialects merely periphrastically, and in verse sometimes to gain a syllable or postpone the accent; but these uses are limited with the verbs have and do

noun (pl do's or dos)
  1. Activity (obsolete)
  2. A party, feast or celebration
  3. A hairdo (informal)
  4. A swindle, hoax (slang)
  5. What one has to do (obsolete)
  6. Fuss (archaic)
ORIGIN: OE dōn, dyde, gedōn; Du doen, Ger tun; connected with Gr tithenai to put, place

doˈable adjective (informal)

Able to be done

doˈer noun

  1. A person who does, or habitually does, anything
  2. An agent
  3. A busy, active or energetic person
  4. A person who prefers taking action, or practical steps, to contemplation and discussion
  5. A healthy farm animal (NZ)
  6. A horse in respect of its appetite, as in a good doer (horse-racing)

doˈing adjective

Active (as in up and doing)

noun (informal)
  1. A scolding
  2. Thrashing
  3. Severe treatment
  4. The agency or handiwork of someone seen as instrumental in something
  5. (in pl) activities, behaviour
  6. (in pl) working parts or pieces of equipment
  7. (in pl) fancy dishes or adjuncts
  8. (in pl) what's-its-name

done transitive verb and intransitive verb (Spenser)

Infinitive of do

adjective
  1. Pap of do
  2. Utterly exhausted (now usu done in)
  3. Finished, completed
  4. Cooked to a degree suitable for eating
  5. (of behaviour, etc) socially acceptable
interjection

(used in clinching a bargain, etc) agreed

doneˈness noun (cookery)

The state of being, or degree to which something is, cooked

doˈ-all noun

A factotum

doˈ-goodˈer noun

A slighting name for someone who tries to benefit others by social reforms, etc, implying that his or her efforts are unwelcome, self-righteous or ineffectual

doˈ-goodˈery noun (derogatory).

doˈ-goodˈing noun and adjective

doˈ-goodˈism noun (derogatory).

do-it-yourselfˈ adjective

Designed to be built or constructed, etc by an amateur rather than by someone specially trained (also noun)

do-it-yourselfˈer noun

doˈ-naught, doˈ-nought or doˈ-nothˈing noun

  1. A lazy or idle person
  2. A fainéant (see donnot)

doˈ-nothˈingism noun

doˈ-nothˈingness noun

all done

Completely finished, used up

be done

  1. To be at an end
  2. To have done or finished (Scot)

be or have done with

To finish with, end contact or dealings with

do away with

To abolish, destroy

do brown see under brown

do by

To act towards

do down

  1. To belittle
  2. To put down, subdue (obsolete)
  3. To cheat, get the better of (informal)

do for

  1. To suit
  2. To provide for
  3. To ruin
  4. To kill (informal)
  5. To do domestic work for (informal)

do in (informal)

  1. To deceive, to get the better of
  2. To exhaust
  3. To ruin
  4. To murder

do or die

To make a final desperate attempt to do or achieve something, no matter what the cost or consequences (doˈ-or-dieˈ adjective)

do out (informal)

To clean (a room, etc) thoroughly

do out of (informal)

To deprive of by cheating

do over

  1. To do again, repeat (N American)
  2. To cover over, eg with paint
  3. To rob (slang)
  4. To beat up (slang)

do's and don'ts

Advice or rules for action, esp in particular circumstances

do someone proud (informal)

  1. To make someone feel flattered
  2. To treat lavishly

do something, etc for

To improve, enhance

do to death

  1. To murder
  2. To repeat too often

do up

  1. To fasten up
  2. To put up, make tidy, arrange, tie up
  3. To redecorate
  4. To apply cosmetics to
  5. To dress, array oneself becomingly
  6. To fatigue utterly

do well

  1. To be justified
  2. To be wise or sensible to take a particular step
  3. To prosper

do with

  1. To make use of
  2. To benefit from
  3. To meddle with
  4. To get on with

do without

Not to be dependent on, to dispense with

have done

  1. To desist
  2. To stop it
  3. To have no more dealings

have to do with

To have any sort of connection with

have you done? (informal)

Are you finished?

how do you do?

A conventional phrase used as a greeting

I, etc can't be doing with

I, etc can't abide, have no patience with

make do see under make1

nothing doing

No

that's done it (informal)

  1. It is completed
  2. An interjection expressing dismay that something is spoiled or ruined

to do with

Concerning

what are you, etc doing with (something)?

Why have you, etc got (something)?

what's to do?

What is the matter?
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