英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Van
(n.)
The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also,
the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in
battle.
Van
(n.)
A shovel used in cleansing ore.
Van
(v. t.)
To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
Van
(n.)
A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and
others fore the transportation of goods.
Van
(n.)
A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for
conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition.
Van
(n.)
A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.
Van
(n.)
A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
Van
(n.)
A wing with which the air is beaten.
Van
(v. t.)
To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.
Van-courier
(n.)
One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.
Vanadate
(n.)
A salt of vanadic acid.
Vanadic
(a.)
Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing
vanadium; specifically distinguished those compounds in which vanadium
has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the vanadious
compounds; as, vanadic oxide.
Vanadinite
(n.)
A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red
hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion
of lead chloride.
Vanadious
(a.)
Pertaining to, or containing, vanadium; specifically,
designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as
contrasted with the vanadic compounds; as, vanadious acid.
Vanadite
(n.)
A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a
phosphite.
Vanadium
(n.)
A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found
combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an
infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between
the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties.
Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.
Vanadous
(a.)
Of or pertaining to vanadium; obtained from vanadium; --
said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of
oxygen.
Vanadyl
(n.)
The hypothetical radical VO, regarded as a characterized
residue of certain vanadium compounds.
Vandal
(n.)
One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south
shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern
nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for
destroying the monuments of art and literature.
Vandal
(n.)
Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of
art or literature.