stive

粉末, 粉尘

发音

/staɪv/

词形变化

stives 三单 stiving 现在分词 stived 过去式 stived 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.

    1867, The British Farmer's Magazine, Volum LII, New Series, page 231, The removal of the heated air, steam, stive, and flour from the millstones, is a proposition which does not appear to be more than sufficiently well understood.

  2. 1.

    Obsolete form of stew.

    废旧
v.
  1. 1.

    To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.

    英国 方言 不及物 及物

    1796, Amelia Simmons, American Cookery, 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64, Let your cucumbers be ſmall, freſh gathered, and free from ſpots; then make a pickle of ſalt and water, ſtrong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ſkim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ſtive them down for twenty four hours; […] .

  2. 1.

    Sometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram.

    及物

词源

Apparently from a Middle Dutch noun related to stuiven and cognate to German Staub (“dust”).

来源：wiktionary