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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

tailings

US // (ˈteɪlɪŋz) //

尾矿,尾渣,尾巴,尾尾矿

Related Words

shale页岩,页岩的,页岩的作用sand沙子,砂子,沙地,沙土intelligence智能化,智能,智能化方面stones石头,石块,石頭,石材macadam通马路,通票,通俗公路,通车证screenings放映会,筛选,筛查,甄别rocks岩石,石头,摇滚,摇滚乐reconnaissance侦查,侦察,勘察,侦察员shadowing影子,阴影,影射,追踪tailing尾货,尾矿,尾巴,尾随

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : waste left over after certain processes, such as from an ore-crushing plant or in milling grain

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ingravel
Synonyms
sand沙子,砂子,沙地,沙土shale页岩,页岩的,页岩的作用macadam通马路,通票,通俗公路,通车证rocks岩石,石头,摇滚,摇滚乐screenings放映会,筛选,筛查,甄别stones石头,石块,石頭,石材crushed rock碎石,破碎的岩石,破碎的石头,粉碎的岩石
as inespionage
Synonyms
intelligence智能化,智能,智能化方面reconnaissance侦查,侦察,勘察,侦察员shadowing影子,阴影,影射,追踪tailing尾货,尾矿,尾巴,尾随secret service特勤局,特工服务,特工局,特工部undercover operations卧底行动,秘密行动,卧底活动,秘密活动undercover work卧底工作,秘密工作,卧底,卧底调查underground activities地下活动,井下活动,地面活动,秘密活动

Examples

  • It was not entirely for the money that he undertook the laborious task of washing "riffles" and "screening tailings."

  • The tailings should be small, containing no light chaff and little full-size grain.

  • Grain returned in the tailings is liable to get cracked in the cylinder, and much chaff in the tailings chokes the cylinder.

  • The tailings are carried back to the cylinder by an elevator usually worked with a chain.

  • Refuse material from quartz, hydraulic or other mines is known as tailings.

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