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mere 音标拼音: [m'ɪr] n. 小湖,池塘
a. 仅仅的,只不过的 小湖,池塘仅仅的,只不过的 mere adj 1: being nothing more than specified; " a mere child" 2: apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; " only the bare facts"; " shocked by the mere idea"; " the simple passage of time was enough"; " the simple truth" [ synonym: { bare( a)}, { mere( a)}, { simple( a)}] n 1: a small pond of standing waterMere \ Mere\ ( m[= e] r), v. t. To divide, limit, or bound. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Which meared her rule with Africa. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster]
Mere \ Mere\, n. A mare. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster]
Mere \ Mere\ ( m[= e] r), a. [ Superl. { Merest}. The comparative is rarely or never used.] [ L. merus.] 1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. [ 1913 Webster] Then entered they the mere, main sea. -- Chapman. [ 1913 Webster] The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form. [ 1913 Webster] From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation. -- Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster]
- mere \- mere\ [ Gr. ? part.] A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere. [ 1913 Webster]
Mere \ Mere\ ( m[= e] r), n. [ Written also mar.] [ OE. mere, AS. mere mere, sea; akin to D. meer lake, OS. meri sea, OHG. meri, mari, G. meer, Icel. marr, Goth. marei, Russ. more, W. mor, Ir. & Gael. muir, L. mare, and perh. to L. mori to die, and meaning originally, that which is dead, a waste. Cf. { Mortal}, { Marine}, { Marsh}, { Mermaid}, { Moor}.] A pool or lake. -- Drayton. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster]
Mere \ Mere\, n. [ Written also meer and mear.] [ AS. gem[= ae] re. [ root] 269.] A boundary. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 39 Moby Thesaurus words for " mere": absolute, austere, bare, basic, chaste, elementary, essential, fundamental, homely, homespun, homogeneous, indivisible, irreducible, just, monolithic, of a piece, only, plain, primal, primary, pure, pure and simple, scant, severe, sheer, simon- pure, simple, single, spare, stark, unadorned, uncluttered, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiluted, unenhanced, uniform, unmitigated, unmixed
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