gum

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n. 树胶, 橡皮, 橡皮糖, 牙床, 老天 vt. 涂以树胶, 用胶粘, 使有粘性 vi. 分泌树胶, 发粘

发音

US /ɡʌm/
其它 /ɡʊm/

词形变化

gums 复数 gums 三单 gumming 现在分词 gummed 过去式 gummed 过去分词

别名

gom goom gumm

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    The flesh around the teeth.

    齿龈

    牙龈

    龈

  2. 1.

    A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.

    不可数 化学 生物 植物学 可数

    gum arabic

  3. 2.

    Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.

    不可数 可数

    gum benzoin

  4. 3.

    Chewing gum.

    不可数 可数
  5. 4.

    A single piece of chewing gum.

    口香糖

    可数 不可数

    Do you have a gum to spare?

  6. 5.

    A gummi candy.

    南非 可数 不可数
  7. 6.

    A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.

    美国 可数 方言 不可数
  8. 7.

    A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.

    美国 可数 方言 不可数
  9. 8.

    A rubber overshoe.

    美国 可数 方言 不可数
  10. 9.

    A gum tree, any of various types of trees or an individual thereof.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.

  2. 2.

    To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.

    及物
  3. 1.

    To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.

  4. 2.

    To stiffen with glue or gum.

  5. 3.

    To inelegantly attach into a sequence.

  6. 4.

    To impair the functioning of a thing or process.

    非正式

    That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.

    The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

glue chewing gum gingiva gum tree gumwood mucilage

上位词 7

sweet tree wood cement confection exudate exudation

下位词 10

thus bubblegum gumball eucalyptus kino frankincense lacquer hazelwood liquidambar red gum

部分词 2

chicle gumwood

整体词 3

mouth gum tree oral cavity
动词

同义词 1

mumble

上位词 10

change apply chew jaw ooze exude put on exudate manducate masticate

相关短语

chewing gum 口香糖 [化] 口香糖 gum arabic [化] 阿拉伯树胶; 金合欢胶 [医] 阿拉伯胶 gum acacia [化] 阿拉伯树胶; 金合欢胶 [医] 阿拉伯胶 gum tree n. 产树胶的树 gum trees gum resin [医] 胶树脂 gum lift gum lifts gum karaya gum up 搞乱, 使出毛病 gum stick gum sticks gum butea [网络] 口香糖 gum cistus

词源

From Middle English gom, gome, gomme, goome, gum, gume, gumme, from Old English gōma (“palate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōmō, from Proto-Germanic *gaumô, *gōmô (“palate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to gape, yawn”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian gaumo (“palate”), German Gaum, Gaumen (“palate”), Luxembourgish Gomm, Gumm (“palate”), Yiddish גומען (gumen, “palate”), Danish gumme (“gums”), Icelandic gómur (“gum”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish gom (“palate”); also Latin hio (“to gape, yawn”), Ancient Greek χάσκω (kháskō, “to gape, yawn”), Lithuanian gomurỹs (“palate”), Bulgarian зе́я (zéja, “to gape”), Czech zát, zet (“to gape”), Polish ziać (“to pant”), Russian зия́ть (zijátʹ, “to gape, yawn”), Serbo-Croatian зи́јати, zíjati (“to gape, yawn”), Ukrainian зя́яти (zjájaty, “to gape”), Tocharian A koy- (“mouth”), Tocharian B koyn (“mouth”). More at yawn.

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