pica

n. 异食癖, 鹊, 12点活字 [医] 异食癖, 异嗜癣

发音

UK /ˈpaɪkə/
其它
US /ˈpaɪkə/

词形变化

picas 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.

    异食癖

    异食症

    不可数 医学 可数
  2. 2.

    A magpie.

    可数 不可数
  3. 1.

    A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.

    不可数 媒体 印刷 可数

    1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados The difference to you of treacle on a marble background is scarcely greater than that of printers' ink on newspaper to me. But anything smaller than pica I do not read with comfort, and below long primer I cannot read at all.

  4. 2.

    A font of this size.

    不可数 媒体 印刷 可数
  5. 3.

    A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially ³⁵⁄₈₃ cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) ¹⁄₆ in.

    可数 媒体 印刷 不可数
  6. 4.

    A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.

    可数 不可数 宗教
  7. 1.

    Archaic form of pika (“small lagomorph”).

    古体

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

em

上位词 1

eating disorder

下位词 2

geophagia geophagy

部分词 3

point nut en

整体词 2

in inch

相关短语

pica stick pica sticks small pica double pica double small pica two-line pica two-line double pica

词源

Borrowed from Latin pīca (“jay; magpie”). Doublet of pie (“magpie”). * (pathology): From the idea that magpies will eat almost anything.

来源：wiktionary