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pith

/pith/US // pɪθ //UK // (pɪθ) //

精髓,髓,髓部,髓质

Related Words

vigor活力,劲头,生机,朝气蓬勃heart心,心脏,心灵,心儿substance物质,物体,物质的,物质上embodiment体现在,体现,体现出来的,体现出meat肉类,肉類,肉食gist要点,主旨,要领,主要内容importance重要性,重要意义,重要程度,重要的是essence精髓,精华,精英,精粹soul灵魂,魂,灵魂人物,灵魂深处crux症结,症结所在,关键点,关键fiber纤维,纤维素,纤维制品,纤维的nucleus核子,核心,核,核心的significance意义,重要性,重要意义,意义所在strength强度,力量,实力,优势force力量,力,权力,力度marrow骨骨髓,骨髓,精髓,骨骨髓髓pulp纸浆,制浆,浆,浆糊center中心,中央,中间,中心点medulla髓质,脑髓,髓质部,髓部corey核心,核心提示,核心人物

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
    • : Zoology. the soft inner part of a feather, a hair, etc.
    • : the important or essential part; essence; core; heart: the pith of the matter.
    • : significant weight; substance; solidity: an argument without pith.
    • : Archaic. spinal cord or bone marrow.
    • : Archaic. strength, force, or vigor; mettle: men of pith.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to remove the pith from.
    • : to destroy the spinal cord or brain of.
    • : to slaughter, as cattle, by severing the spinal cord.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncore
Forms: piths
Synonyms
center中心,中央,中间,中心点crux症结,症结所在,关键点,关键embodiment体现在,体现,体现出来的,体现出essence精髓,精华,精英,精粹fiber纤维,纤维素,纤维制品,纤维的force力量,力,权力,力度gist要点,主旨,要领,主要内容heart心,心脏,心灵,心儿importance重要性,重要意义,重要程度,重要的是marrow骨骨髓,骨髓,精髓,骨骨髓髓meat肉类,肉類,肉食medulla髓质,脑髓,髓质部,髓部nucleus核子,核心,核,核心的pulp纸浆,制浆,浆,浆糊significance意义,重要性,重要意义,意义所在soul灵魂,魂,灵魂人物,灵魂深处strength强度,力量,实力,优势substance物质,物体,物质的,物质上vigor活力,劲头,生机,朝气蓬勃corey核心,核心提示,核心人物sum and substance总数和实质,总数和内容,总量和实质,摘要和内容

Examples

  • She also muddles or bruises herbs to express their aromatic oils, and removes the rind and pith from citrus to ward off unwanted bitterness.

  • In a good Seville orange, oily and aromatic skin easily gives way to thick, bitter pith, followed by its heavily seeded segments.

  • It is more like a sweet wine with hints of dried apricots, grapefruit pith, cypress, and lemons.

  • Haass, now the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, blends history, memoir, and policy pith to great effect.

  • The unprepared sago is imported from the neighbouring island of Borromeo, and consists of the pith of a short, thick kind of palm.

  • The pith of the whole sentence can be stated in a few words, if the sentence has unity.

  • What a tendency there is to round off a narrative into falsehood; or else by parenthesis to destroy its pith and continuity.

  • These wicks of pith he sold about the town in small penny bundles.

  • Stem: Cylindrical; creamy white; hollow, or with a loose cottony pith.

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