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butter

/buht-er/US // ˈbʌt ər //UK // (ˈbʌtə) //

黄油,黄黄油,黄牛,牛油

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
    • : this substance, processed for cooking and table use.
    • : any of various other soft spreads for bread: apple butter; peanut butter.
    • : any of various substances of butterlike consistency, as various metallic chlorides, and certain vegetable oils solid at ordinary temperatures.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to put butter on or in; spread or grease with butter.
    • : to apply a liquefied bonding material to, as mortar to a course of bricks.
    • : Metalworking. to cover with a preliminary surface of the weld metal.
  1. 1
    • : butter up, Informal. to flatter someone in order to gain a favor: He suspected that they were buttering him up when everyone suddenly started being nice to him.

Phrases

  • butter up
  • butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth
  • bread and butter
  • bread-and-butter letter
  • know which side of bread is buttered

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • All the downsides of popcorn but none of the good butter grease.

  • Company-provided data show that while travelers are booking almost twice as many remote stays as last year, home rentals in urban markets—Airbnb’s bread and butter—are still struggling.

  • A 19th-century Pennsylvania Dutch doctor’s manual instructs its reader to inscribe the square in butter smeared on a piece of bread and eat it as a cure for rabies.

  • The consumer piece was easier to fix—sell, don’t store, the butter.

  • It is the large quantities of salt and the sodium in the butters that are used to season them that can lead to high blood pressure.

  • In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.

  • While the beans are cooling and drying, melt the butter in a saute pan over medium heat.

  • Butter has always been a healthy part of the diet in almost every culture; butter is a traditional food,” Asprey says.

  • Now, his new book “The Bulletproof Diet,” claims to offer a weight loss solution that lets you have your butter, and eat it too.

  • By Amanda Woerner for Life by DailyBurn Butter is making a comeback—and it has nothing to do with Paula Deen.

  • The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.

  • You see, they always butter their chairs so that they won't stick fast when they sit down.

  • The former, in its frozen state, somewhat resembled hard butter.

  • He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.

  • Your electro-plated butter-dish, or whatever it's going to be, will be simply flung back at you.