terne

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /tɜːn/    美 /tɝn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An alloy coating made of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin), often with some antimony, used to cover iron or steel. also,attributive,countable,uncountable
  2. Obsolete spelling of tern (“any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sternidae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail”). alt-of,obsolete
  3. Synonym of terneplate (“thin iron or steel sheeting coated with this alloy”). countable,uncountable
形容词 adj.
  1. Colourless, drab, dull.

词形变化

more terne comparative most terne superlative ternes plural ternes plural

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French terne, from Middle French, from Old French terne (“dim, dull”), from Frankish *darnī (“concealed, hidden; secret”); further etymology unknown, perhaps related to Proto-West Germanic *derk (“dark; dirty”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg- (“to darken, dim”). Doublet of dern.
词源 2
From terneplate, probably from terne (“colourless, drab, dull”) (see etymology 1) + plate (“layer of a material on the surface of something, plating”).
词源 3
A variant of tern.
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