silver

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɪl.və/    美 /ˈsɪl.vɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag. uncountable
  2. Coins made from silver or any similar white metal. collective,countable,uncountable
    — […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.
  3. Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal. collective,countable,uncountable
  4. Any items made from silver or any other white metal. collective,countable,uncountable
  5. A shiny gray color. uncountable
    — I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.
  6. A silver medal. countable
  7. Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white. countable,uncountable
    — And next morning they found him dead, with his neck broken, in the bottom of the stone pit, with his beautiful clothes a little bloody, and foul and stained with the duckweed from the pond. But his face was a face of such happiness that, had you seen it, you would have understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.
动词 v.
  1. To acquire a silvery colour.
    — Presently all the eastern sky began to silver and shine, and objects before invisible in the west—chiefly the tall towers on Mount Zion—emerged as from a shadowy depth, [...]
  2. To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.
    — to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury
  3. To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
    — For here retir'd the ſinking billows ſleep, / And ſmiling calmneſs ſilver'd o'er the deep.
  4. To make hoary, or white, like silver.
    — Remote from cities liv'd a Swain, / Unvex'd with all the cares of gain, / His head was ſilver'd o'er with age, / And long experience made him ſage; [...]
形容词 adj.
  1. Made from silver.
    — He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
  2. Made from another white metal.
  3. Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
  4. Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
    — Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary.
  5. Premium, but inferior to gold.
  6. Pertaining or relating to elderly persons.
  7. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
    — a silver-voiced young girl

词形变化

silvers plural more silver comparative most silver superlative silvers present,singular,third-person silvering participle,present silvered participle,past silvered past

词汇关系

近义词
E174
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
substratebor.?
Proto-Germanic *silubrą
Proto-West Germanic *silubr
Old English seolfor
Middle English silver
English silver
Inherited from Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin.
cognates and etymology discussion
Cognate with Scots siller (“silver”), Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque zilar and Proto-Berber *a-ẓrəf, but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown.
Adjective sense 4 (“denoting a twenty-fifth anniversary”) generalized from silver wedding, itself a calque of German Silberhochzeit.
词源 2
Etymology tree
substratebor.?
Proto-Germanic *silubrą
Proto-West Germanic *silubr
Old English seolfor
Middle English silver
English silver
Inherited from Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin.
cognates and etymology discussion
Cognate with Scots siller (“silver”), Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque zilar and Proto-Berber *a-ẓrəf, but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown.
Adjective sense 4 (“denoting a twenty-fifth anniversary”) generalized from silver wedding, itself a calque of German Silberhochzeit.
词源 3
Etymology tree
substratebor.?
Proto-Germanic *silubrą
Proto-West Germanic *silubr
Old English seolfor
Middle English silver
English silver
Inherited from Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin.
cognates and etymology discussion
Cognate with Scots siller (“silver”), Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque zilar and Proto-Berber *a-ẓrəf, but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown.
Adjective sense 4 (“denoting a twenty-fifth anniversary”) generalized from silver wedding, itself a calque of German Silberhochzeit.
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