liver

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈlɪvə/    美 /ˈlɪvɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions. countable,uncountable
    — Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
  2. Someone who lives (usually in a specified way). uncommon
    — Ephori of Sparta, hearing a dissolute liver propose a very beneficial advise unto the people, commaunded him to hold his peace, and desired an honest man to assume the invention of it unto himselfe and to propound it.
  3. This organ, as taken from animals used as food. countable,uncountable
    — I'd like some goose liver pate.
  4. Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).; Someone who is alive: one of the living. uncommon
    — When as the wandring Scots and Picthts King Marius had subdude, He gave the Liuers dwellings.
  5. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver. countable,uncountable
  6. Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).; Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller. uncommon
    — They must instantly have been detected by the present Livers that were upon the place.
  7. Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — He gave his horse some liver of antimony.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray). not-comparable
    — His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.
  2. comparative form of live: more live comparative,form-of
    — Seeing things on a big screen somehow makes them seem liver.

词形变化

livers plural livers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”),German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish, and West Frisian lever (“liver”), Faroese livur (“liver”), Icelandic lifur (“liver”). Related to live.
词源 2
From Middle English lyvere, livere, equivalent to live + -er.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der.
Proto-Germanic *an
Proto-West Germanic *ana
Old English on
Proto-Indo-European *leyp-
Proto-Germanic *lībanąder.
Proto-Germanic *lībą
Proto-West Germanic *līb
Old English līfder.
Old English līfe
Old English on līfe
Middle English alyve
English aliveclip.
English live
English -(e)r
English liver
From live (adjective) + -(e)r.
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