Skip to main content

dew

/doo, dyoo/US // du, dyu //UK // (djuː) //

露水,露,露点,露面

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : moisture condensed from the atmosphere, especially at night, and deposited in the form of small drops upon any cool surface.
    • : something like or compared to such drops of moisture, as in purity, delicacy, or refreshing quality.
    • : moisture in small drops on a surface, as tears or perspiration.
    • : Informal. Scotch whisky. mountain dew.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to wet with or as with dew.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • When it reaches a certain temperature — known as the dew point — any excess moisture will condense out onto surfaces, such as leaves.

  • It was during a weekend, on a morning when the streets were still vacant and the dew was patterned and crisp across the neighborhood fences.

  • A station plot The basic station plot shows temperature, dew point, wind direction, wind speed, cloud cover, precipitation, and air pressure, which are all measured at weather stations around the globe.

  • On those monstrous afternoons where the dew point is in the mid-70s, covering your airways while running really doesn’t enhance the experience—or it does, depending on what kind of experience you’re looking for.

  • The Spire, like most fountains, has the basics -- Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist, Brisk Iced Tea and SoBe Lifewater.

  • Cars in the cross alley are covered with a silver glaze of dew.

  • If he gets rid of foam cups, where am I going to put my 32oz Mountain Dew?

  • Mark Cuban Does the Diet Dew Would you trade a private island for a pop?

  • But he did not impose a tax or penalty on those who drink Mountain Dew, and he would not, because the mere idea is preposterous.

  • Mary is fair as the morning dew— Cheeks of roses and ribbons of blue!

  • A present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a dew that meeteth it, by the heat that cometh, shall overpower it.

  • The falling dew, and the howling wind raised him not from that bed of lonely despair.

  • I ain't a gwine ter back daown naow; but I dew jest wish Jeff Hyer wuz along.

  • Her beauty seemed fresh made; he thought of a wild rose washed by the dew and sparkling in the sunlight.