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词汇 urn
释义 urn
noun[ C ]
uk /ɜːn/ us /ɝːn/
a container, especially a large, round one on a stem, that is used for decorative purposes in a garden, or one that has a lid and is used for holding a dead person's ashes (= the powder that is left after a dead body has been burned)瓮;骨灰瓮
 
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a large, cylinder-shaped metal container with a lid, used for holding a large amount of a drink such as tea or coffee and keeping it hot: (可以保温的)茶水桶,咖啡桶
a tea urn茶水桶
 
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urn | American Dictionary


urn
noun[ C ]
us/ɜrn/
a large, round container from which coffee or tea is served, or a decorative container, esp. one that holds the ashes of the body of a dead person after it has been cremated (= burned)

Examples of urn


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Sometimes the cremated remains are placed in an urn, but more commonly they are scattered in a small pit or placed in an organic container.
In communication theory, some transmission channels can be described in terms of contagion urn models [2].
I shall discuss each of these t heses i n t urn.
The form is a pedestal topped by an urn, the classical symbol of death and mourning.
In computer science, urn models are used for database performance evaluations [35] and for modelling and analysing algorithms.
We start by proving the claimed result for the case of labelled urns.
In the middle of these six locations with offerings, we found a large jar that was likely a funerary urn.
In this paper, we present several probabilistic transforms related to classical urn models.
Because the remains were cremated and because the urns and the monument lack hieroglyphs, it is difficult to know who the two personages were.
Both plural endings are reflexes of the old -urn; the variation comes from the dropping of -n or not.
Two other large urns were reported to have been found during street construction some 15 m from the salvaged urn.
Therefore, the combinatorial model for the case of unlabelled urns has a different structure and interpretation from the case of labelled urns.
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