frit
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
- A pre-fused ceramic mixture used to make glass and glazes.
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A politician who does not perform some action (for example answering a question or calling a vote) out of fear of losing.
— Why are you not going to bother? You are scared? You are a frit? Is that the problem?
- A frit fly.
- Such material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age)
- Such material that is resistant to melting and used to physically support objects in a crucible.
- A material, whether ceramic, plastic or some other material, that is used for support in chemical apparatus.
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Any of many black enamel dots baked in a graded pattern onto the glass around the edge of a windshield.
— Made from ceramic paint baked directly into the glass, frits help bond the windscreen to the vehicle by providing a textured surface for adhesives and shielding them from damaging UV rays.
动词 v.
- To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture
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To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
— equal parts of the calcined and roasted ore, of ground flints and potash, are fritted together and then fused
形容词 adj.
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Frightened.
— The right hon. Gentleman is afraid of an election, is he? Afraid? Frightened? Frit? Could not take it? Cannot stand it? If I were going to cut and run, I should have gone after the Falklands.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
Either from French fritte, from frit (“fried”), or else from Italian fritta f (“fried”).
词源 2
Dialectal past participle of fright (“frighten”), formed on the model of bite:bit and light:lit. Compare the parallel formation fit (“fought”).
By the late 20th century, largely confined to the Lincolnshire dialect, but adopted into political slang in the 1980s from the speeches of Grantham-born Margaret Thatcher.
By the late 20th century, largely confined to the Lincolnshire dialect, but adopted into political slang in the 1980s from the speeches of Grantham-born Margaret Thatcher.
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