smear

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /smɪə(ɹ)/    美 /smiɚ/|/smɪɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mark made by smearing. countable,uncountable
    — This detergent cleans windows without leaving smears.
  2. A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation. countable,uncountable
    — smear campaign
  3. A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide. countable,uncountable
  4. A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer). countable,uncountable
    — I'm going to the doctor's this afternoon for a smear.
  5. Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear. uncountable
    — In television terms, a certain amount of smear, ringing, and anticipatory overshoot are indigenous to VSB transmission.
  6. A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact countable,uncountable
  7. A rough glissando in jazz music. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing. transitive
    — The artist smeared paint over the canvas in broad strokes.
  2. To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing. transitive
    — She smeared her lips with lipstick.
  3. To make something dirty. transitive
    — A man may bee smeared or grimed, and euerie man shall laugh at him, and yet he himselfe shall not perceiue it a whit.
  4. (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it. transitive
    — a pallor which was accentuated by the blood which smeared her lips and cheeks and chin
  5. To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions. derogatory,transitive
    — The opposition party attempted to smear the candidate by spreading incorrect and unverifiable rumors about their personal behavior.
  6. To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it. transitive
    — When she had entered two or three laborious items in the account-book, Jip would walk over the page, wagging his tail, and smear them all out.
  7. To become messy or not clear by being spread. intransitive
    — The paint is still wet — don't touch it or it will smear.
  8. To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface. transitive
    — ciphers smeared on the windows of condemned shops
  9. To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance. transitive
    — small wooden dolls smeared red as though with blood
  10. To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface. transitive
    — […] he smeared his ragged rough sleeve over his eyes.
  11. To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing. transitive
    — He had […] a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck, with the long frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke:
  12. To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.

词形变化

smears present,singular,third-person smearing participle,present smeared participle,past smeared past smears plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antismear cytosmear asmear besmear desmear nonsmearing smearable smearer smear the queer unsmeared blood smear cervical smear leap smear marrow smear Papanicolaou smear pap smear smear campaign smear case smear-case smear frame Smeargate smearless smearproof smear test smeary smirch

词源

词源 1
From Middle English smeren, smerien, from Old English smerian, smyrian, smierwan (“to anoint or rub with grease, oil, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *smirwijan, from Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną. Doublet of schmear.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smeere, Dutch smeren (“to smear, lubricate”), Low German smeren, German schmieren (“to smear, lubricate”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål smøre (“to lubricate”), Norwegian Nynorsk smørja (“to lubricate”), Swedish smörja (“to grease”), Faroese and Icelandic smyrja.
词源 2
From Middle English smeren, smerien, from Old English smerian, smyrian, smierwan (“to anoint or rub with grease, oil, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *smirwijan, from Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną. Doublet of schmear.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smeere, Dutch smeren (“to smear, lubricate”), Low German smeren, German schmieren (“to smear, lubricate”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål smøre (“to lubricate”), Norwegian Nynorsk smørja (“to lubricate”), Swedish smörja (“to grease”), Faroese and Icelandic smyrja.
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