mull

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n. 软薄布, 混乱 vt. 研磨, 细想 vi. 深思熟虑

发音

UK /mʌl/
US /mʌl/
其它 /mʊl/

词形变化

mulls 复数 mulled mulling mulls 三单 mulls mulling 现在分词 mulled 过去式 mulled 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

研磨；思索或思考某事物；使醉

动词

深思熟虑

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.

    不可数 可数
  2. 2.

    A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    A mess of something; a mistake.

    古体 可数 俚语 不可数

    2014, Andrea Pickens, A Stroke of Luck After studying the page a bit longer, she made a face. "Good Lord, you've really made a mull of it. Here, let me have a closer look."

  6. 6.

    Dirt, dust, or other waste matter.

    可数 方言 不可数
  7. 1.

    A thin, soft muslin.

    可数 不可数
  8. 1.

    A promontory.

    苏格兰

    the Mull of Kintyre

  9. 2.

    A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

  10. 1.

    Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.

    to mull a thought or a problem

    he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision

  2. 2.

    To powder; to pulverize.

  3. 3.

    To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.

  4. 4.

    To heat and spice something, such as wine.

  5. 5.

    To join two or more individual windows at mullions.

  6. 6.

    To dull or stupefy.

  7. 7.

    To bungle or botch.

    古体 俚语

    'Yes; they mulled that by not copying the sale label closely enough, and the attendant noticed it when the necklace was laid down again. […] '

词汇关系

名词

上位词 4

head foreland headland promontory
动词

同义词 10

reflect muse speculate meditate contemplate ponder mull over ruminate think over chew over

上位词 7

think sweeten cerebrate cogitate dulcify dulcorate edulcorate

下位词 10

question wonder study consider puzzle bethink cogitate introspect premeditate theologise

相关短语

mull over n. 岬, 海角; 认真琢磨, 反复思考 Mull of Kintyre rule Mull of Kintyre test Mull of Kintyre fog mull

词源

Inherited from Middle English molle, mulle (“dust, rubbish”), possibly from Old English myl (“dust, mould”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan and thus cognate with Dutch mul (“dust, mould”), German Müll (“rubbish”), Swedish moln (“cloud”) and related to English mill (“to grind”). Alternatively, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis (“soft”). Some verbal senses are supplied by Middle English mollen (“to soften, dissolve”), from Old French moillier, from Latin *molliāre (“to steep”), itself from mollis; compare moil.

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