mantle
地幔,钵盂,钵体,衣钵
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Definitions
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- : a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape.
- : something that covers, envelops, or conceals: the mantle of darkness.
- : Geology. the portion of the earth, about 1,800 miles thick, between the crust and the core.Compare core, crust.
- : Zoology. a single or paired outgrowth of the body wall that lines the inner surface of the valves of the shell in mollusks and brachiopods.
- : a chemically prepared, incombustible network hood for a gas jet, kerosene wick, etc., that, when the jet or wick is lighted, becomes incandescent and gives off a brilliant light.
- : Ornithology. the back, scapular, and inner wing plumage, especially when of the same color and distinct from other plumage.
- : mantel.
- : Metallurgy. a continuous beam set on a ring of columns and supporting the upper brickwork of a blast furnace in such a way that the brickwork of the hearth and bosh may be readily replaced.
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man·tled, man·tling.
- : to cover with or as if with a mantle; envelop; conceal.
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man·tled, man·tling.
- : to spread or cover a surface, as a blush over the face.
- : to flush; blush.
- : to spread out one wing and then the other over the corresponding outstretched leg.
- : to be or become covered with a coating, as a liquid; foam: The champagne mantled in the glass.
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Examples
He also scripted that song in the Lovers Rock film, so I grabbed the mantle and just ran with it.
One idea holds that plates are just a byproduct of burbling convection cells deep in the mantle.
I think that’s the only thing missing on the mantle for me, personally.
This 10-inch digital picture frame will fit right in on any mantle, bookshelf, or nightstand.
As one plate slides beneath another and sinks into the mantle, it transports carbon from the surface to the interior, a key part of the carbon cycle.
We arrived to the din of a party in full swing: a band, multiple kegs of beer, dancing, foosball, and mantle diving.
Having tonally redefined rap, he was ready to claim the mantle of one of the greatest musical pioneers of all time.
Question those taking on the mantle of victimhood and you are immediately cast as some kind of aggressive, unfeeling oppressor.
“Somebody suggested [we give him] a $1,000 baseball signed by Mickey Mantle [in exchange for the URL],” Robinson told me.
Even at the latter stages Simon and Ryan took over the mantle and it became a little dark.
Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.
He thrust the Cardinal's mantle into it, and stood over the smouldering cloth, till the whole was consumed to ashes.
The night at last had imposed herself on the singers, and they had sunk down to sleep under the mantle of her silence.
The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green, and shed her richest perfumes abroad.
His mantle raised at the shoulder disclosed a muscular arm covered with circlets of gold.