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mastication 的定义
- the act or process of chewing: Limited ability to open the mouth may make proper mastication of food more difficult.
- the act or process of grinding, shredding, crushing, or kneading to a pulp: In the office he could hear the soft chatter of people on their phones, the steely mastication of a paper shredder, the thwack of a coffee mug being set down.A machine with two horizontal rolls revolving in opposite directions is used for the mastication of rubber.
- Forestry. the act or process of grinding up small trees and brush in a forest in order to thin it out or reduce the fuel available to forest fires: The remains of mastication and chipping are left on the forest floor, forming a mulch to protect the soil from compaction and erosion.
mastication 近义词
rumination
mastication 的近义词 5 个
更多mastication例句
- But, right now at least, there’s hardly any coughing, and mercifully less mastication of crunchy foods.
- It is a stately dance, whose aim is to slow down the unseemly business of mastication.
- Thorough mastication takes time, and therefore one must not feel hurried at meals if the best results are to be secured.
- Undoubtedly much of the distress known as dyspepsia is due to too hasty meals with consequent lack of proper mastication of food.
- When prejudice is overcome by gnawing hunger, a fat rat makes good eating, as I know from actual and enjoyable mastication.
- One of the strongest arguments ever yet brought against bread-making is, that it relieves us from the necessity of mastication.
- But to this we reply, that such cakes as may be made (and such loaves even) require more mastication than the uncooked grains.