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vinegar

/vin-i-ger/US // ˈvɪn ɪ gər //UK // (ˈvɪnɪɡə) //

醋,醋味,醋溜子,醋类

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sour liquid consisting of dilute and impure acetic acid, obtained by acetous fermentation from wine, cider, beer, ale, or the like: used as a condiment, preservative, etc.
    • : Pharmacology. a solution of a medicinal substance in dilute acetic acid, or vinegar.
    • : sour or irritable speech, manner, or countenance: a note of vinegar in his voice.
    • : Informal. vigor; high spirits; vim.

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Examples

  • “Materials don’t usually encounter a pH that’s that low, so it’s not like if you put PDKs in vinegar, the polymer is going to start breaking down,” Helms says.

  • Discard the bay leaf, then stir in the vinegar, and season to taste with additional salt and pepper, if desired.

  • Made with little more than tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, salt and spices, the umami-packed ingredient can help add a missing element to a dish.

  • Personally, I went for three varying dilutions of vinegar for cleaning and one water-only bottle for misting plants.

  • Take a bite of an onion, chase it with a shot of vinegar, and then finish with a chunk of lemon.

  • Caligula drank “pearls of great price dissolved in vinegar.”

  • Lohse and his beleaguered fellow pledges were, he claims, forced to chug vinegar and to dine on the dreaded “vomlet.”

  • Lexington (North Carolina) vinegar-pepper sauce comes in a small ramekin on the plate.

  • After a year, they would be washed with vinegar, dressed, and displayed.

  • Women would first bathe their feet in a mixture of vinegar and natural vegetation.

  • Narcotic poisons are neutralized by vinegar:—Narcotics … torpor … strong wine … sour wine … vinegar.

  • There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth.

  • Battle of Vinegar hill, at which the Irish rebels were completely routed and the insurrection crushed.

  • Either of them, or distilled vinegar alone, may be rubbed into a bald patch with a tooth-brush.

  • At present, I am getting some sleep again, but I still eat mechanically, horsewise—rubbing my mouth with vinegar.