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词汇 honeycomb
释义 honeycomb
noun
uk /ˈhʌn.i.kəʊm/ us /ˈhʌn.i.koʊm/

honeycombnoun (STRUCTURE)


[ C or U ]
a wax structure containing many small holes, made by bees to store their honey蜂巢,蜂窝
 
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[ C ]
something with a similar structure: 蜂巢状物
honeycomb ofThe hotel complex was a honeycomb of rooms and courtyards (= there were many small rooms and passages).这家宾馆像一个由房间和庭院组成的蜂巢。
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Frames & structures
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clothes horse
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framing
gantry
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homeschool
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picture frame
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safety gate
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honeycombnoun (FOOD)


[ U ]UK(UK alsocinder toffee); (USsponge candy, sea foam candy)
a sweet, light, hard food that can be broken into pieces and is made from sugar, syrup, and bicarbonate of soda: 煤渣太妃糖
One of the most popular chocolate bars consists of honeycomb covered with milk chocolate.
I love honeycomb ice-cream.
See also
hokey pokey
 
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Sweets
almond paste
baking chocolate
barley sugar
bitter chocolate
bittersweet chocolate
confectioner
confectionery
cooking chocolate
cotton candy
couverture
liquorice
lollipop
lolly
marchpane
marron glacé
snow cone
sourball
spun sugar
stick of rock
sugared almond

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honeycombed

honeycomb | American Dictionary


honeycomb
noun[ C ]
us/ˈhʌn·iˌkoʊm/
a structure bees make in which to store honey, having many small separate areas, or fig. any space divided into many small, separate areas or paths:
The building was a honeycomb of private offices.

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One has only to touch a road to find it honeycombed with electricity, gas, telephone, water and other services.
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Extremely efficient air lines were found to be honeycombed with the most colossal corruption.
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The whole business of this company, or a large portion of it, is honeycombed with this thing.
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I think it is true that the country could be absolutely honeycombed with clock auctions only at very great expense indeed.
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There are many centres undermined and honeycombed by mineral workings.
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There is not a piece of land which has not been honeycombed for years with mineral workings.
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In the next 50 years the country will be honeycombed with a complex of pipelines carrying goods of all sorts.
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He may be a recent purchaser who has purchased a place honeycombed with rabbit holes.
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I have explained elsewhere that the absence of an adequate intake of milk can mean that we shall have more cases of hypoplastic, that is, honeycombed, teeth.
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No one ever queried whether it was a solid plateau or whether it was honeycombed with waste space which could have been used for more important matters.
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In the old days we tried to get away from cartons because we thought they were a waste—they were nearly always thrown away—and we had honeycombed cartons.
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At larger sizes, the study of idealized foams is closely linked to the mathematical problems of minimal surfaces and three-dimensional tessellations, also called honeycombs.
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Tessellations in three or more dimensions are called honeycombs.
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The simplest honeycombs to build are formed from stacked layers or "slabs" of prisms based on some tessellation of the plane.
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The nest is composed of multiple honeycombs, parallel to each other, with a relatively uniform bee space.
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