mortar
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
— 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.
- A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
- 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.
- In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
动词 v.
- To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
- To pound in a mortar.
- To fire a mortar (weapon).
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To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
— The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.
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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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