surface

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
    — A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
  2. The outside hull of a tangible object.
    — Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
  3. Outward or external appearance. figuratively
    — On the surface, the spy looked like a typical businessman.
  4. The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a space of more than two dimensions.
  5. The story or image suggested by a cryptic clue, when read as a whole sentence without considering wordplay.
    — The surface is clearly about people like you and me, those whose better days are behind us and who now shop at M&S.
  6. A portion of the display to which graphics can be rendered.
    — The video player algorithm requires a target surface.
动词 v.
  1. To provide with a surface; to apply a surface to. transitive
    — The crew surfaced the road with bitumen.
  2. To rise to the surface. intransitive
    — There was great relief when the missing diver finally surfaced.
  3. To bring to the surface. transitive
    — Sage went immediately to work; Damien surfaced the submarine and readied the group to meet outside the hatch.
  4. To come out of hiding. figuratively,intransitive
    — The company believes the stolen chocolate bars could surface through unofficial sales channels across European markets.
  5. To become known or apparent; to appear or be found; to come to light. intransitive
    — Subordinate clauses, by contrast, exhibit V1 or V2 only around 35% of the time, with the verb usually surfacing later.
  6. To make (information, facts, content, etc) known. transitive
    — They're not growing. Why would I surface them to new people? [...That] makes our video surface less, and that makes the next video surface less.
  7. To work a mine near the surface. intransitive

词形变化

surfaces plural surfaces present,singular,third-person surfacing participle,present surfaced participle,past surfaced past

词汇关系

近义词
overside superfice
衍生词
air-to-surface air-to-surface missile Alfven surface antisurface archaeosurface attack surface bedding surface below the surface beneath the surface Catalan surface caustic surface cavosurface conical surface control surface countersurface datum surface desurface detectable warning surface developable surface Earth surface person eigensurface equipotential surface ergosurface faying surface Fermi surface Fréchet surface free surface Gaussian surface heating surface Hurwitz surface hypersurface intersurface isosurface Kummer surface land surface land-surface last scattering surface lateral surface metasurface microsurface midsurface minimal surface Morin surface multisurface nanosurface near surface near-surface nonsurface on the surface overspray surface texture palaeosurface paleosurface pseudosurface resurface Riemann surface Roman surface ruled surface directrix scratch below the surface scratch beneath the surface scratch the surface sea surface sea-surface Seifert surface skew surface Steiner surface streamsurface sub-surface subsurface subway-surface surfaceable surface-active surface analysis surface area surface boundary layer surface car surface clutter surface combatant surface-conduction electron-emitter display surface discharge surface-dwelling surface energy surface etymology surface finish surface gravity surface integral surface interval surface layer surface lease surfaceless surface-level surface lift surfacely surface mail surfaceman surface mount surface-mount surface mounted surface mounted technology surface-mount technology surface mount technology surface noise surface normal surface of revolution surfaceome surface patch surface plasmon surface quality surfacer surface runoff surface ship surface street surface structure surface-supplied diving surface tension surface-to-air surface-to-air missile surface-to-surface surface-to-surface missile surfaceward surfacewards surface water surface Web surfacic surfacism surfacy surfel surfome tactile ground surface indicator tactile walking surface indicator undersurface under the surface Veronese surface work surface worksurface
相关词
surficial

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Middle French surfacebor.
English surface
Borrowed from Middle French surface. By surface analysis, sur- + face. Doublet of superficies.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Middle French surfacebor.
English surface
Borrowed from Middle French surface. By surface analysis, sur- + face. Doublet of superficies.
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