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Hydro is short for anything to do with water, especially 'hydroelectric' — electricity made using the power of flowing water, like from a dam. In some places, especially Canada, people just say 'hydro' to mean their electricity bill or the power company itself: 'I need to pay my hydro this month.'
組成From Greek 'hydor', meaning water.
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
hydronoun/ˈhaɪdro/
- 1
Electrical power supply; specifically, electrical power provided by a utility (as a publicly-owned one); payment or bills for this.
- I won't have lights until my house gets the hydro turned on.
- She was having trouble paying the hydro.
- 2
datedA spa.
- She almost lived at hotels and hydros, last year, but that isn't pleasant for her.
- 3
rareWater.
- “Can I get you somethin’ to drink?” she asked. “How much hydro you got in storage?” “Six Gs.”
- Dihydrogen monoxide is the chemical name for water, and a quartet of Riverside High School students are up to their necks in the hot kind after their Internet-inspired prank made dozens of homeowners not readily acquainted with chemical terms hyper over hydro.
- 4
slangHydroponically-grown marijuana.
- Dope is kinda like riding a bike that doesn't go anywhere, flips upside down, and who's number of wheels varies, during use, between 1 and 4. And sometimes there's fuzzy purple things riding on it with you. But you have to get hold of some hydro if you want the purple things to sing.
- You're probably smoking that $50 an ounce garbage that people sell in Dallas. Buy some hydro. That way you only need like three hits, and no paranoia.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- hydroelectric
- hydroponic
- hydro-
- hydropower
- hydroelectricity
- hydroaeroplane
- hydrodynamics
- hydrocodone
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。