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turbid
1、 Thick or murky, especially with churned-up sediment.
2、 Unclear, confused, muddled.
🌱The mood of the crowd was restless and turbid, and any spark could have turned them into a mob. 🌳The Colorado River in spring, swollen by melting snow from the high mountains, races through the Grand Canyon, turbid and churning. A chemical solution may be described as turbid rather than clear. And your emotions may be turbid as well, especially where love is involved: What did he mean by that glance? Why did she say it like that? perturb To upset, confuse, or disarrange.
🌱News of the new peace accord was enough to perturb some radical opponents of any settlements. 🌳With its per- prefix, perturb meant originally "thoroughly upset," though today the word has lost most of its intense edge. Perturb and perturbation are often used by scientists, usually when speaking of a change in their data indicating that something has affected some normal process. When someone is referred to as imperturbable, it means he or she manages to remain calm through the most trying experiences. turbine A rotary engine with blades made to turn and generate power by a current of water, steam, or air under pressure.
🌱The power plant used huge turbines powered by water going over the dam to generate electricity. 🌳The oldest and simplest form of turbine is the waterwheel, which is made to rotate by water falling across its blades and into buckets suspended from them. Hero of Alexandria invented the first steam-driven turbine in the 1st century A.D., but a commercially practical steam turbine wasn't developed until 1884; steam turbines are now the main elements of electric power stations. Jet engines are gas turbines. A turbojet engine uses a turbine to compress the incoming air that feeds the engine before being ejected to push the plane forward; a turboprop engine uses its exhaust to drive a turbine that spins a propeller. A wind turbine generates electricity by being turned by the wind; the largest now have vanes with a turning diameter of over 400 feet. turbulent 1、 Stirred up, agitated.
2、 Stirring up unrest, violence, or disturbance.
🌱The huge ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II was never much troubled by turbulent seas that might have sunk smaller boats. 🌳Some people lead turbulent lives, and some are constantly in the grip of turbulent emotions. The late 1960s are remembered as turbulent years of social revolution in America and Europe. Often the captain of an airplane will warn passengers to fasten their seatbelts because of upper-air turbulence, which can make for a bumpy ride. El Niño, a seasonal current of warm water in the Pacific Ocean, may create turbulence in the winds across the United States, affecting patterns of rainfall and temperature as well.
2、 Unclear, confused, muddled.
🌱The mood of the crowd was restless and turbid, and any spark could have turned them into a mob. 🌳The Colorado River in spring, swollen by melting snow from the high mountains, races through the Grand Canyon, turbid and churning. A chemical solution may be described as turbid rather than clear. And your emotions may be turbid as well, especially where love is involved: What did he mean by that glance? Why did she say it like that? perturb To upset, confuse, or disarrange.
🌱News of the new peace accord was enough to perturb some radical opponents of any settlements. 🌳With its per- prefix, perturb meant originally "thoroughly upset," though today the word has lost most of its intense edge. Perturb and perturbation are often used by scientists, usually when speaking of a change in their data indicating that something has affected some normal process. When someone is referred to as imperturbable, it means he or she manages to remain calm through the most trying experiences. turbine A rotary engine with blades made to turn and generate power by a current of water, steam, or air under pressure.
🌱The power plant used huge turbines powered by water going over the dam to generate electricity. 🌳The oldest and simplest form of turbine is the waterwheel, which is made to rotate by water falling across its blades and into buckets suspended from them. Hero of Alexandria invented the first steam-driven turbine in the 1st century A.D., but a commercially practical steam turbine wasn't developed until 1884; steam turbines are now the main elements of electric power stations. Jet engines are gas turbines. A turbojet engine uses a turbine to compress the incoming air that feeds the engine before being ejected to push the plane forward; a turboprop engine uses its exhaust to drive a turbine that spins a propeller. A wind turbine generates electricity by being turned by the wind; the largest now have vanes with a turning diameter of over 400 feet. turbulent 1、 Stirred up, agitated.
2、 Stirring up unrest, violence, or disturbance.
🌱The huge ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II was never much troubled by turbulent seas that might have sunk smaller boats. 🌳Some people lead turbulent lives, and some are constantly in the grip of turbulent emotions. The late 1960s are remembered as turbulent years of social revolution in America and Europe. Often the captain of an airplane will warn passengers to fasten their seatbelts because of upper-air turbulence, which can make for a bumpy ride. El Niño, a seasonal current of warm water in the Pacific Ocean, may create turbulence in the winds across the United States, affecting patterns of rainfall and temperature as well.
TURB comes from the Latin verb turbare,"to throw into confusion or upset," and the noun turba,"crowd" or "confusion." So a disturbance, for example, confuses and upsets normal order or routine.🌸