喜樂美語

From the word’s history

From Middle English mineral, from Old French mineral, from Medieval Latin minerale, from minera 'ore'.

借自古法文 mineral，來自中世紀拉丁文 minera「礦石」。

Wiktionary

Picture something solid that the earth made on its own — salt, coal, iron, gold — no plant and no animal involved. That is the test the word applies: it grew in the ground, not in a living thing. The same substances turn up on a food label, because your body needs some of them too.

可以想成：地球自己長出來的固體東西——鹽、煤、鐵、金，過程中沒有植物也沒有動物參與。這就是這個字的判準：它從地底來，不是活的東西產生的。有趣的是同樣這些東西也會出現在食品標示上，因為人體也需要其中幾種，那時候中文就叫「礦物質」。

同家族的字

minerals

原始詞典資料10 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。

Mineralname

  • 1

    A number of places in the United States, including:

  • 2

    A number of places in the United States, including:

mineralnoun/ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/

  • 1

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesAny naturally occurring solid material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties; especially, an inorganic and crystalline one.

    • The physiology of matter in the abstract is dynamical, that of mineral species is both dynamical and chemical, while that of organized forms is at once dynamical, chemical, and biotical.
    • Formation of alteration minerals in the host rock during deformation within the shear zone is indicated by the parallel foliation within the secondary micaceous minerals and the unmineralized host schist.
  • 2

    Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable).

  • 3

    Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition.

  • 4

    Mineral water.

  • 5

    informalA soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can.

  • 6

    obsoleteA mine or mineral deposit.

    • O'er whom his very madness, like some ore / Among a mineral of metals base, / Shows itself pure;
  • 7

    obsoleteA poisonous or dangerous substance.

    • ...Thou hast... / Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals[…]

mineraladj/ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/

  • 1

    of, related to, or containing minerals

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