[字彙] occlude (v) 封閉、阻塞
occlude 是常見的 GRE 單字，
xination 也講過，
這裡特別把此字在牙醫學上的用法做強調，
相互補充。
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Word of the Day Wednesday, July 21, 2010
occlude \uh-KLOOD\ verb,
1. To shut in, out, or off.
2. Physical Chemistry. (Of certain metals and other solids) to incorporate
(gases and other foreign substances), as by absorption or adsorption.
3. Dentistry. To shut or close, with the cusps of the opposing teeth of the
upper and lower jaws fitting together.
Quotes:
Were you afraid that this person would eclipse you, would occlude your very
being, that your life would become the baby and nothing else, and that - and
this is the most important thing - you wouldn't mind?
-- Joanna Smith Rakoff, A fortunate age: a novel
Unwin closed his dreaming eyes, but he could not occlude the vision of the
man thrashing where he sat.
-- Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection
Origin:
Occlude owes its popular usage to the dental term occlusion, "the fitting
together of the teeth of the lower jaw with the corresponding teeth of the
upper jaw when the jaws are closed."
補充:
absorption (n) 吸收
adsorption (n) 吸附
cusp (n) 尖端
eclipse = outshine (v) 使失色
being = existence (n) 存在
thrash (v) 連續擊打
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