frost

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /fɹɒst/    美 /fɹɔst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. countable,uncountable
  2. The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form. countable,uncountable
    — Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
  3. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — It was one of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath.
  4. The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  5. A shade of white, like that of frost. countable,uncountable
  6. A disappointment; a cheat. countable,dated,slang,uncountable
  7. A kind of light diffuser. countable,uncountable
    — Frosts and diffusion are flame retardant and produce similar results except that some of the frosts are very subtle in their effects. For example: Hamburg Frost will soften the beam edge with little additional spread of the beam.
动词 v.
  1. To cover with frost. transitive
  2. To become covered with frost. intransitive
    — “The weather is pleasant while it frosted a little at night.”
  3. To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost. transitive
  4. To anger or annoy. informal,transitive
    — I think the boss's decision frosted him a bit.
  5. To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice. transitive
  6. To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched. transitive

词形变化

frosts plural froste alternative,obsolete frosts present,singular,third-person frosting participle,present frosted participle,past frosted past froste alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *prews-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *prustós
Proto-Germanic *frustaz
Proto-West Germanic *frost
Old English frost
Middle English frost
English frost
From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *prews-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *prustós
Proto-Germanic *frustaz
Proto-West Germanic *frost
Old English frost
Middle English frost
English frost
From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.
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