hearthful
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The amount a fireplace can hold.
— All furnaces were built with two sumps, wells or forehearths in which the molten aluminum accumulated, one hearthful or about two metric tons at a time.
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A quantity (of something) contained within a fireplace.
— Another bard, Rhys Goch Eryri, between the years 1385 and 1448, describes the dragon's colour as similar to a hearthful of fire in a smithy, a significant comparison for such a fire is not composed of lambent flames, but of a golden-red glow.
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A quantity (of something) sitting on a hearth outside a fireplace.
— famished after a baconless dinner and a snack of cold weak tea and heavy bread, miserably shod, and with nothing to look forward to in the evening but a hearthful of wet clothes steaming before an inadequate wood fire, source of light as well as heat.
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A homeful; enough to fill a cosy domestic situation.
— Again he begins to weave his spell around Antonia, whispering in her ear that it was foolish of her to have given father and lover the pledge she has; so huge a sacrifice is not to be expected of one with her talent, her beauty, her charm; what can domestic felicity, even with a hearthful of brats thrown in, weigh in the scales against the applause of the adoring multitude?
形容词 adj.
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Characterized by warmth, comfort, and a sense of belonging; cosy.
— Thus for some people in settings such as squats and the street, lower on the physical continuum than the others, their experiences may be hearthful: the psychological, social and symbolical constituents of home.
词源
词源 1
From hearth + -ful.
词源 2
From hearth + -ful.
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