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A muller is a small, heavy tool, usually with a flat bottom, that artists use to grind colored powder (pigment) into a smooth paste on a flat stone slab, to make paint by hand. It is mostly a word used by painters and people who make traditional art materials, not something you would hear in everyday conversation.
研磨顏料用的研磨器(多為玻璃或石製),美術用語。
組成Likely related to the word 'mull,' meaning to grind or crush something into a fine powder, plus '-er' (a thing that does an action).
原始詞典資料11 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。
Mullername
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A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].
- “In the past you had to pick your battles, you had limited resources and limited attorneys, so you picked the things that you thought would have the biggest stakes,” Muller said. Now, election litigators don’t have to be so “choosy.”
mullernoun詞源 1/ˈmʌlə/
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One who, or that which, mulls.
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One who, or that which, mulls.
mullernoun詞源 2/ˈmʌlə/
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engineeringmetallurgynatural-sciencesA machine that mixes clay and sand under a roller for use in preparing a mould for metal casting.
- The muller can easily plow through any sand mixture that I put in it and has plenty of power left over.
mullernoun詞源 3/ˈmʌlə/
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artartsA stone with a flat grinding surface, which is held in the hand and rubbed on a slab to grind paint pigments, medicinal powders, etc.
- The muller provides, in addition, a useful means of comparing the important property of the rate of strength development of pigments.
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A device used for crushing or grinding.
mullerverb詞源 3/ˈmʌlə/
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obsoleterareTo grind up (something) into, or as if into, powder.
- The mixing is conducted in a water-bath, and during this process, and as long as the phosphorus is being ground or ‘mullered,’ copious fumes are evolved.
mullerverb詞源 4/ˈmʊlə/
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slangTo destroy (something); to ruin, to wreck.
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slangTo beat or thrash (someone).
- We walked down to the golf club to get a beer; they readily agreed as we went, it had been a dreadful game. Macca [Steve McMahon] asked Gazza [Paul Gascoigne], had he heard? – they were getting ‘mullered’ back home. […] Gazza said he wasn’t surprised, it was fair enough – and Macca said the same. He said he didn’t mind getting trashed, when they’d played a lousy game – what he hated was getting trashed for two weeks solid beforehand, when the Cup hadn’t even started.
- You needn't make so much fuss. Nobody's going to bother about you. It's me that's going to get mullered.
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slanghobbieslifestylesportsTo utterly defeat or outplay (a sportsperson, a team, etc.); to destroy, to thrash, to trounce.
mullerverb詞源 5/ˈmʌlə/
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obsoleteslangTo cut down or reduce the height of (a top hat).
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。