mortar

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks. uncountable
    — The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.
  2. A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle. countable
  3. A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories. countable,historical
  4. A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories. countable
  5. In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered. countable
动词 v.
  1. To use mortar or plaster to join two things together. transitive
  2. To pound in a mortar. transitive
  3. To fire a mortar (weapon).
  4. To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
    — The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.

词形变化

mortars plural morter alternative,archaic mortars present,singular,third-person mortaring participle,present mortared participle,past mortared past morter alternative,archaic

词源

词源 1
From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.
词源 2
From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.
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