ochre

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈəʊkə/    美 /ˈoʊkɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide. countable,uncountable
  2. Obsolete spelling of okra. alt-of,countable,obsolete,uncountable
  3. A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour. countable,uncountable
  4. The stop codon sequence "UAA". colloquial,countable,uncountable
  5. Money, especially gold. countable,dated,slang,uncountable
    — ‘What does he come here cheeking us for, then?’ cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. ‘If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.’
  6. Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To cover or tint with ochre.
    — […] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having a yellow-orange colour. not-comparable
  2. Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre. not-comparable

词形变化

ochres plural ocher alternative ocher alternative ochres present,singular,third-person ochring participle,present ochreing participle,present ochred participle,past ochred past ocher alternative ochres plural

词汇关系

衍生词
brown ochre gold ochre ochraceous ochre-bellied boobook ochreish ochrey ochrish ochroid ochroleucous orange ochre purple ochre red ochre uran-ochre yellow ochre

词源

词源 1
From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).
词源 2
From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ọ́kụ̀rụ̀, but compare Akan ŋkrũmã and ŋkrakra (“broth”).
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