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A puddle is a small, shallow pool of liquid on the ground, especially sitting in a hole or on the road after rain. Children jump in puddles. You can also spill a puddle of milk on the table or find a puddle of oil under a car: any small spread of liquid, not only rain. It is an everyday word, not formal. A pond is bigger and meant to stay; a puddle is small and usually gone when the sun comes out. As a verb, to puddle can mean to splash in that water, and in older technical talk it meant mixing clay or iron with water until it was thick — most students only need the noun.
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組成Does not split in a way you can see. From Middle English podel, a diminutive of Old English pudd (ditch), from a Germanic word that probably began as a splash-sound.
原始詞典資料12 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。
puddlenoun/ˈpʌdəl/
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A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
- Foꝛ with the only be theſe welles of lyfe, / Of frayle men ſpring but podels of myꝛe, / From whom ſourdeth errour ⁊ croked ſtrife[…]
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dialectalStagnant or polluted water.
- And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].
- searching their habitations for water, we could fill but three barricoes, and that such puddle, that never till then we ever knew the want of good water.
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A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
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hobbieslifestylerowingThe ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- I had only to see the 'puddle' to know that your paddle made it.
- As the blade exits the water the puddle is very tight and dark. It is also very quiet.
puddleverb/ˈpʌdəl/
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To form a puddle.
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To play or splash in a puddle.
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biologyentomologynatural-sciencesOf butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
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To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
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To line a canal with puddle (clay).
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To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
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To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- Soon the Latino warrior had bared his beefy body. His bullet packed bandolier still draped over one shoulder served to emphasize the nakedness of the torso, as did the boots and the pants that were puddled about his ankles.
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To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
- Some unhatched practice […] / Hath puddled his clear spirit.
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。