pellet

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n. 颗粒状物, 小子弹, 小药丸 vt. 使成颗粒, 使成团, 用子弹打

发音

CA /ˈpɛl.ɪt/
其它
UK /ˈpɛl.ɪt/
US /ˈpɛl.ɪt/
AU /ˈpel.ɪt/

词形变化

pellets 复数 pellets pelleted pelleting pellets 三单 pelleting 现在分词 pelleted 过去式 pelleted 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

小球； 小子弹（枪用）

动词

将…制成丸状；用子弹打；用小球扔

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.

    a pellet of wood, paper, or ore

  2. 2.

    A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.

  3. 3.

    Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.

  4. 4.

    A roundel sable (black circular spot).

    政治 纹章
  5. 5.

    One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

v.
  1. 1.

    To form into pellets.

  2. 2.

    To strike with pellets.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

shot

上位词 5

ball missile globe orb projectile

下位词 7

ball grape bb buckshot birdshot grapeshot musket ball

整体词 3

canister canister shot case-shot

相关短语

pellet gun 粒丸枪 pellet guns pellet moulding pellet mouldings pellet stove pellet stoves pellet drum pellet drums ice pellet ice pellets

词源

Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.

来源：wiktionary