喜樂美語
  1. 1

    To descale a kettle, a coffee machine, or a pipe is to take off the hard white crust that builds up when you boil water again and again. That crust is called scale, or — minerals left behind, not dirt. In Britain you see descale on product labels and in bathroom ; people use a bottle of descaler, or vinegar. American speakers may say remove mineral deposits or decalcify instead. This entry is that household sense. Though actually, the same spelling can mean taking the scales off a fish — a different job that just happens to look identical on the page.

    去除水垢

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成de- (take off) + scale (the hard white crust inside kettles and pipes).

同家族的字

  • scalethe white crust you are taking off
  • limescalea common name for that same white crust

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

descaleverb

  • 1

    To remove scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc.

  • 2

    To remove the scales from a fish etc.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。