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pith 音標拼音: [p'ɪθ] n. 木髓,骨髓,核心,意義,精華
vt. 除去木髓,殺死 木髓,骨髓,核心,意義,精華除去木髓,殺死 pith n 1: soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants 2: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; " the gist of the prosecutor' s argument"; " the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; " the nub of the story" [ synonym: { kernel}, { substance}, { core}, { center}, { centre}, { essence}, { gist}, { heart}, { heart and soul}, { inwardness}, { marrow}, { meat}, { nub}, { pith}, { sum}, { nitty- gritty}] v 1: remove the pith from ( a plant) Pith \ Pith\, n. [ AS. pi? a; akin to D. pit pith, kernel, LG. peddik. Cf. { Pit} a kernel.] 1. ( Bot.) The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( a) ( Zool.) The spongy interior substance of a feather. ( b) ( Anat.) The spinal cord; the marrow. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith. [ 1913 Webster] Enterprises of great pith and moment. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { Pith paper}. Same as { Rice paper}, under { Rice}. [ 1913 Webster]
Pith \ Pith\, v. t. ( Physiol.) To destroy the central nervous system of ( an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal. [ 1913 Webster] 204 Moby Thesaurus words for " pith": affective meaning, axiom, axis, backbone, bearing, bench mark, bottom, burden, butter, cardinal point, cataplasm, center, center of action, center of gravity, centroid, centrum, chief thing, chutzpah, climax, coloring, connotation, consequence, core, cornerstone, courage, crisis, critical point, crush, crux, dead center, denotation, dental pulp, depth, distillate, distillation, drift, effect, elixir, epicenter, essence, essential, essential matter, essentiality, extension, fabric, flower, focal point, focus, force, fulcrum, fundamental, gameness, gist, grammatical meaning, gravamen, gravity, great point, grit, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, heart, heart of oak, high point, hub, hypostasis, idea, impact, implication, import, importance, important thing, inner essence, intension, intestinal fortitude, issue, kernel, keystone, landmark, lexical meaning, literal meaning, magnitude, main point, main thing, marrow, mash, material, material point, matter, meaning, meaningfulness, meat, medium, medulla, metacenter, mettle, mettlesomeness, middle, milestone, moment, momentousness, moxie, mush, nave, navel, nerve, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, omphalos, overtone, paper pulp, paste, pertinence, pivot, plaster, pluck, pluckiness, point, porridge, postulate, poultice, practical consequence, principle, pudding, pulp, pulp lead, pulpwood, purport, quick, quid, quiddity, quintessence, quintessential, rag pulp, range of meaning, real issue, real meaning, recap, recapitulation, reference, referent, relation, relevance, resume, rock bottom, root, run- through, rundown, salient point, sap, sauce, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, short, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, sine qua non, smash, soul, span of meaning, spirit, sponge, spunk, spunkiness, squash, stamina, storm center, stout heart, structural meaning, stuff, substance, substantive point, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, sum, sum and substance, summary, summation, symbolic meaning, tenor, the bottom line, the nitty- gritty, the point, thrust, totality of associations, toughness, transferred meaning, true grit, turning point, umbilicus, unadorned meaning, undertone, upshot, value, virtuality, weight, weightiness, white lead, wood pulp
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