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scent

/sent/US // sɛnt //UK // (sɛnt) //

味道,嗅觉,嗅觉灵敏,嗅觉灵敏的人

Related Words

whiff嗅觉,嗅嗅,嗅探,嗅到bouquet花束,花簇,花卉,鲜花essence精髓,精华,精英,精粹odor气味,异味,臭味,臭气perfume香水,香味,香料,香液aura灵气,灵光spice香料,香味,香精,香料的作用balm膏药,润膏,香膏,膏药类trail小路,小径,踪迹,小道tang苍井空,苍蝇,苍天,苍白incense熏香,香,香火,香气track追踪,轨迹,跟踪,轨道fragrance香味,香气,香料,芳香剂redolence红葡萄酒,红润,红叶,红颜祸水pheromone信息素,费洛蒙,外激素,信息激素discern识别,辨别,辨认,辨识recognize确认,认识,认识到,认可sense意义,感觉,感官,意识nose鼻子,鼻腔,鼻部,鼻腔内sniff嗅,闻,嗅嗅,嗅闻

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
    • : an odor left in passing, by means of which an animal or person may be traced.
    • : a track or trail as or as if indicated by such an odor: The dogs lost the scent and the prisoner escaped.
    • : perfume.
    • : the sense of smell: a remarkably keen scent.
    • : small pieces of paper dropped by the hares in the game of hare and hounds.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to perceive or recognize by or as if by the sense of smell: to scent trouble.
    • : to fill with an odor; perfume.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to hunt by the sense of smell, as a hound.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounsmell, aroma
Forms: scented, scents
Synonyms
aura灵气,灵光bouquet花束,花簇,花卉,鲜花essence精髓,精华,精英,精粹odor气味,异味,臭味,臭气perfume香水,香味,香料,香液spice香料,香味,香精,香料的作用whiff嗅觉,嗅嗅,嗅探,嗅到balm膏药,润膏,香膏,膏药类fragrance香味,香气,香料,芳香剂incense熏香,香,香火,香气pheromone信息素,费洛蒙,外激素,信息激素redolence红葡萄酒,红润,红叶,红颜祸水tang苍井空,苍蝇,苍天,苍白track追踪,轨迹,跟踪,轨道trail小路,小径,踪迹,小道
verbdetect, smell
Forms: scented, scents
Synonyms
discern识别,辨别,辨认,辨识nose鼻子,鼻腔,鼻部,鼻腔内recognize确认,认识,认识到,认可sense意义,感觉,感官,意识sniff嗅,闻,嗅嗅,嗅闻be on the track of追踪,追踪到,追踪到了,追踪报道be on the trail of追踪,追随,追查,追捕get wind of得知消息,得知,风闻,听闻nose out伸出鼻子,鼻孔朝外,伸出鼻子来,鼻孔向外

Examples

  • This Portland company offers a variety of scents, but get the vanilla sugar if you want to smell like a super-refreshed cupcake.

  • The finding, described August 12 in Nature, could inform new ways of controlling or preventing locust swarms, potentially by attracting the insects with their own scents.

  • If we can understand how the brain processes individual scents as electrical information, it might be possible to reverse-engineer the smell of bubbling lasagna and deliver it straight to your brain.

  • After 10 minutes, the researchers gave each bee the same lemony scent followed by sugar water.

  • They are snaking back and forth in search of the scent that will get them their ball.

  • Selling off the extras, I saw my neighbor marvel at the scent and murmur that he wished he could afford one.

  • He even claims that hen partridges conceive just by smelling the scent of males.

  • This is not the boisterous version of Pacino, the one we saw as Tony Montana in Scarface or as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman.

  • A local perfume maker even produced a special scent for men and women named after the rocket, M75.

  • Behind the counter is the pit, perfuming the room (and your clothes) with the swirling, come-hither scent of beef and smoke.

  • But such refuge, he knew, could avail him nothing if the bear should scent him out and search for him.

  • He did not know what the scent was, but it smelled rich and artificial, and he disliked to associate it with his new friend.

  • Her expression was still petrified, except that she might have had the scent of blood in her slightly dilating nostrils.

  • From the garden there rose to her nostrils the delicate scent of some hidden flower that gave its best gift to the darkness.

  • I might have put him on a false scent, just as cleverly and unsuspiciously as I dare say he could put me; but I've not done it.

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