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 .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
(
a ) (
Zool .)
The spongy interior substance of a feather .
(
b ) (
Anat .)
The spinal cord ;
the marrow .
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3 .
Hence :
The which contains the strength of life ;
the vital or essential part ;
concentrated force ;
vigor ;
strength ;
importance ;
as ,
the speech lacked pith .
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Enterprises of great pith and moment . --
Shak .
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{
Pith paper }.
Same as {
Rice paper },
under {
Rice }.
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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 .
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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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