raisin

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dried grape.
    — Some of the fruit had turned black and shrunken — becoming, effectively, absurdly high-cost raisins.
动词 v.
  1. Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins. intransitive
    — Second-crop fruit tends to show smaller clusters than first-crop, to have a high skin-to-juice ratio, and to be a good blending tool, according to Iantosca, although care must be exercised to ensure that the second-crop berries have not raisined.
  2. To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined. transitive
    — We must have put down about thirty quart bottles, richly raisined and tightly corked.
  3. To add raisins to. transitive
    — Of sweets there are halvás of all kinds from the sweet-smalling tar-halwa raisined and saffroned to the coarse malídah or powdered sweetbread.
  4. To distribute throughout (with small bits or things), to dot or pepper. broadly,transitive
    — It was ground out solemnly in the academies, the University, the press, raisined with scholarly arguments quoted from the French physiocrats and positivists, in French, of course.
  5. To shrivel. ambitransitive
    — If my heart didn't make a new friend soon, it would raisin and then petrify.
  6. To crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone. transitive
    — Out in the bean field Shinto was being horribly bullied by horse-flies, and armed with that reflective strip of marker post– still an invaluable humane goad when the sun was in the right position– I raisined four against his loins. Oddly, he seemed to understand why I kept hitting him.
  7. To cause to have wrinkles. transitive
    — She was a bony woman with hollow cheeks, her skin raisined by years of hard labor in the sun.
  8. To form wrinkles; to become wrinkled. intransitive
    — We soaked together in long baths until we raisined, skin pressed to skin .

词形变化

raisins plural raisins present,singular,third-person raisining participle,present raisined participle,past raisined past

词汇关系

衍生词
Asian don't raisin

词源

词源 1
From Middle English raysyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reysin (“grape, raisin”), from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Possibly a distant cognate of Persian رز (raz, “vine”). Doublet of raceme.
词源 2
From Middle English raysyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reysin (“grape, raisin”), from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Possibly a distant cognate of Persian رز (raz, “vine”). Doublet of raceme.
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