Freshname

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  A surname from German.

freshadj詞源 1/fɹɛʃ/

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  Newly produced or obtained; recent.

  • He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.
  • I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.
• 2

  Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.

  • After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.
  • I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.
• 3

  biologybotanynatural-sciences(of plant material) Still green and not dried.

  • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
• 4

  Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.

  • What a nice fresh breeze.
  • The corridor stinks of sweat and cigarette smoke, and I daringly open the window a little. The freshest air floats in, smelling of sappy grasses, the delicate pollens of wild flowers, the resins of the pine forests; hinting at the chill blue scent of distant snows.
• 5

  Without salt; not saline.

  • After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.
  • There we made our ſhip faſt with foure ropes, in ſmooth water, and the freſh water ranne downe out of the hill into the ſea, […]
• 6

  Rested; not tired or fatigued.

  • Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.
• 7

  In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.

  • a fresh hand on a ship
• 8

  Youthful; florid.

  • these fresh nymphs

freshadv詞源 1/fɹɛʃ/

• 1

  Recently; just recently; most recently.

  • We are fresh out of milk.
  • fresh-cooked salmon.

freshnoun詞源 1/fɹɛʃ/

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  A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.

  • They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh, and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel.
• 2

  A stream or spring of fresh water.

  • […]And take his bottle from him. / When that's gone, / He shall drink naught but brine, for I'll not show him / Where the quick freshes are.
• 3

  The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.

  • When they cross any great Water, or violent Fresh, or Torrent, they throw Tobacco, Puccoon, Peak, or some other valuable thing, that they happen to have about there, to intreat the Spirit presiding there, to grant them a safe passage. It is call'd a Fresh, when after very great Rains, or (as we suppose) after a great Thaw of the Snow and Ice lying upon the Mountains Page 43 to the North West, the Water descends, in such abundance into the Rivers, that they overflow the Banks which bound their Streams at other times.

freshverb詞源 1/fɹɛʃ/

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  businesscommercecommercialTo pack (fish) loosely on ice.

  • With the exception of about 1800 crans which were "rough packed," all the herrings landed during the winter months were freshed and kippered.
  • Aided by government propaganda, herring became an important British war-time food, not pickled, but 'freshed' (packed loosely in ice) and kippered.
• 2

  To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.

  • Our first assumption was that freshed sea water areas were favourable for these organisms.
  • Under the present river conditions, headwater discharge of 40,000 cusecs will be necessary during the non-freshed season to neutralise the landward drift of sediments throughout the tidal portion of the river.
• 3

  To become stronger.

  • Horrible was now my condition, as the wind freshed up more and more.
  • I should have observed, that as we rounded the north-east point, the breeze freshed, and the squalls came heavy out of the gullies and deep ravines.
• 4

  To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.

  • When the barrel became very rough the gun was taken to the local gunsmith and "freshed."
  • There is also the oft-heard plaint that "modern steel barrels can't be re-rifled or freshed out."
• 5

  To update.

  • Thus the liberties of the nation, civil and religious, were laid freshed by his preaching, and. more and more confirmed in the presbyterian principles: and we likewise resorted for a time at West Calder kirk, to Mr. Patrick Shiels, by whose preaching I was yet more confirmed in the presbyterian way.
  • We need not assume that the famous village was considered the capital of the country spoken of; it is sufficient to know that the priests who freshed up the old Ta-ts'in lore in China, were proud of having been themselves born in the Holy Land; and if we consider the precedent set in the very T'ang-shu, where the whole of India is designated by the name of Buddha's birth place, Magadha, we need not be astonished to see the name of what they must have considered the spiritual capital of the Christian world applied to the country they came from.
• 6

  To freshen up.

  • I freshed meself and followed after him and made choice of me dinner.
  • There was no need for them all to be there—most would be resting in their rooms, freshing from the journey—but she was on edge now, all the questions she could not ask running through her head.
• 7

  To renew.

  • Q. Did you tell anybody this tale that you heard this man threaten what they were going to do?—A. No, sir; I didn't say nothing to anybody until Monday—Monday or Tuesday, one—then my mind was freshed.
  • In the nook of a wood where a pool freshed with dew Glassed, daybreak till evening, blue sky glimpsing through Then a star; or a slip of May-moon silver-white, Thridding softly aloof the quiet of night, Was a thicket of flowers.
• 8

  agriculturebiologybusinessOf a dairy cow, to give birth to a calf.

  • A cow was actually tested twice a month on the 5th and 25th of each month. The cow freshed December 15, her milk was good December 18, and she went dry October 30.
  • Fall Freshed Cows Produce More Milk.

freshadj詞源 2/fɹɛʃ/

• 1

  Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.

  • No one liked his fresh comments.
• 2

  Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.

  • Hey, don't get fresh with me!
  • “Fresh guy,” explained Aileen, “last night as I was going home at Twenty-third and Sixth. Sashayed up, so he did, and made a break. I turned him down, cold, and he made a sneak; […]