Definition of powder in English:

powder

noun ˈpaʊdəˈpaʊdər

mass noun

1Fine, dry particles produced by the grinding, crushing, or disintegration of a solid substance.
粉，粉末
add four tablespoons of cocoa powder
count noun crush the poppy seeds to a powder
把罂粟籽磨成粉。
Example sentencesExamples
- The frozen mycelia were ground into fine powder with a mortar and pestle.
- All that was left behind him was a fine, crushed multi-colored powder.
- What's the official term for the fine powder shed by muesli, and remaining at the end of the sack?
- Crush the seeds to a fine powder with a pestle and mortar.
- Polishing on a brush wheel with putty powder retained the crispness and grain marks of the stone wheels but acid polishing removes all these signs and tends to round off the edges of the cuts.
- He slowly rolls to his feet, blinks, and brushes the white ash-like powder off himself.
- The remaining cake, still containing a varying percentage of cocoa butter, is broken into smaller pieces to be sold as cocoa cake or ground into a fine cocoa powder.
- Sift 2 cups of icing sugar and 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder into a bowl.
- It was white and soft like powder, but it carried an aroma that could only be distinguished with the ocean.
- Whole leaves ground to a fine spice-like powder can be used as seasoning or in backing recipes for breads, cookies, cakes, and muffins.
- Wet your toothbrush, dip it into the powder, and then brush your teeth and rinse as usual.
- Dried manure ground into fine powder by hooves and wagon wheels puffed up into the air and its pungent smell filled the town and drifted far outside the town.
- After a quick dusting with fine aluminium powder, a clear print is taken and she compares it with a chart of trainer footprints.
- They can then be pounded to pieces and made into fine powder through repeated grinding in water.
- Dust with translucent powder using a large brush.
- The final grinding again produces an extremely fine powder and close proximity of potentially reactive substances.
- This substance was ground into powder, rendered to paste, and then used, for example, as body paint.
- The sand here is as fine as baby powder and blows up at a moments notice at the slightest movement of wind.
- The thickness of the laminae increased with the size of the particles of the fine powder, but not to any great extent as follows.
- The sand, as Sam had said, was indeed, soft as powder and oozed cool and comfortingly through his bare toes.
Synonyms
dust, fine particles, fine grains
talcum powder, talc
archaic pulvil, pulvilio
rare pounce
1. 1.1 A cosmetic in the form of powder, applied to a person's face with a brush or soft pad.
  （化妆用）扑面香粉，香粉
  she applied lipstick and powder
  a light dusting of translucent powder
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was an attractive woman who wore little make up apart from lipstick and facial powder.
  Sitting on the edge of a table as powder is brushed on his forehead and face, he looks dapper in a navy suit, light-blue tie, black dress shoes and trench coat.
  I flipped down the visor and began to brush silver powder onto my eyelids.
  If you've been treating your complexion well, a dab of concealer over redness around the nose and mouth plus a dusting of loose powder will suffice.
  My face was being attacked by powder and glosses and brushes were attacking my hair.
  They put down their bags, and pulled out three sets of brushes and powder.
  Then dip the other end into loose powder and pat it on over the blemish.
  She might not have any eye shadows on or powder for the face, yet she had on a soft shade of lipstick that you would miss if you were not observant - like Kevin.
  Then set the base using powder - translucent is best.
  Instead I covered my face in a soft bronzing powder and coated my eyelashes with mascara.
  I just knew the five most basic things - compact powder, eye shadow, blusher, eyeliner and lipstick.
  I quickly threw on foundation, powder, mascara, eye shadow, and lipstick.
  The lipsticks, eye shadows, blushes and translucent powder in this kit will help transform your looks in no time.
  Leave a little extra powder on the brush, pop the cap on, and toss it in your bag for all-day touch-ups.
  Blow the excess powder off the brush before you begin, then smile into the mirror.
  To keep the shine away, add a dab of loose or pressed powder.
  I even tried putting on loose powder, which is supposed to help skin stay matte longer, but it didn't work this time.
  My face had been blanketed in pale powder and my cheeks brushed vigorously with pinky red rouge.
  To cover spots, match concealer to skin tone, dot on a small amount at a time and set with translucent powder to even out pores and minimise shine on the T-zone.
  Make sure you have the basic tools: tweezers, cuticle scissors, clear mascara, a white eye pencil and an eyebrow pencil or powder.
2. 1.2dated count noun A medicine or drug in the form of powder, usually designed to be dissolved in a liquid.
  〈旧〉药粉
  she dropped a powder into his water glass
  Example sentencesExamples
  Pills, powders, caplets, tablets, tinctures, oils and herb formulas can aid good health, but only if they're supplemental to a good diet.
  As well as tinctures, homeopathic remedies are available as sugar-based tablets, pills, granules and powders to be taken by mouth, and some also come as creams or ointments to be applied directly to the skin.
  The leaves and seeds, which mature in long pods, are used to prepare extracts or powders for medicinal use.
  Well, unfortunately, is that this drug does not come in pill form, or as a powder or liquid.
  Do not use teething lotions, powders, whiskey, or paregoric (because it has opium in it).
3. 1.3 Gunpowder.
  Example sentencesExamples
  And I flung myself on top of him, and there was this awful noise, the smell of cordite, death, powder, gunpowder, everything and that passed over.
  My religion consists in a firelock, open touchhole, good flint, well rammed charge, and seventy rounds of powder and ball.
  Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute's warning.
  He also coinvented the explosive powder cordite and even worked in collaboration with legendary chemist Pierre Curie.
  Doctors also treated a teenager who attempted to build an explosive device with a lead pipe and powder from shotgun cartridges.
  It exerts the best leverage in seating the ball over the powder of any percussion revolver ever produced.
  The United States did not adopt the newfangled smokeless powder until 1892, a few years after it became widely available.
  Two of these, obviously, are firearms and black powder or modern powder substitutes, such as Pyrodex or Triple Seven.
  I pour out a box of black projectile powder, much to the alarm of the two onlookers, and fill it up with my treasures.
  Among the tribe, Bent earned a reputation as a gunsmith, taking powder from captured grenades and using animal tissue for cartridge paper to plump up ammunition stocks.
2Loose, dry, newly fallen snow.
粉末雪
in Aspen, blue skies and good powder drew in record numbers
the promise of fresh powder snow brought more than 1300 excited guests to the mountain
as modifier powder skiing
Example sentencesExamples
- There are fantastic conditions in the US and Canada, where new snow and fresh powder make perfect skiing.
- There was something about the newly falling powder snow that created a haven, erasing all the difficulties the past few weeks had presented and allowed it to be just me and the perfect world outside.
- His only accompaniment was the soft hiss of snow passing beneath his skis and the low whistle of the wind as it shaped the loose powder.
- The sun shone in a clear blue sky, and powder snow sparkled below us.
- I chose my line of untracked snow and pushed off, testing my telemark turns in the knee-deep powder.
- Since the epic dump last week, the weather has warmed a little, and we have received nothing but sleet and rain, which has turned the once fluffy powder snow into granulated sugar snow.
- He was sitting in loose powder snow on a steep slope and there was no way he could anchor himself to the mountain.
- Gradually the sun warms up and then, finally, a band of bright, pale gold hits the snow and the fresh powder begins to sparkle beneath your skis.
- You want lots and lots of freshly fallen powder?
- I realized that the effects of riding on powder snow would be very similar to riding on water.
- Are you thinking about whether your toboggan is made of wood or Plexiglas, or whether the snow is deep powder or sleet?
- Yet all was not powder snow twinkling in a rosy sunrise, and morale continued at a low ebb.
- Examination of forage craters indicated that caribou had to contend with only a few centimetres of soft powder snow with a loose granular base.
- Colorado: the name conjures up images of deep powder, clear blue skies and great skiing.
- I have only skied on them for one day and mostly in heavy snow, not powder.
- After dinner, walk outside, take a deep breath of the pine-scented air, and enjoy the moonlight on ponderosa trunks that peek through a layer of fresh powder snow, and the inky mountains in the distance.
- In order to prevent wet powder snow from sticking to the dirt that works its way into the tread pattern, the kick zone especially needs to stay clean.
- Few of the massed ranks of skiers discussing last night's disco at the restaurant get to know the delights of skiing over fresh powder.
- Janet trudged through the freshly fallen silent shroud of powder.
- I seldom ski steep winter powder, and I'm careful about which days I go out.

verb ˈpaʊdəˈpaʊdər

[with object]

1Apply cosmetic powder to (the face or body)
往（脸或身体）搽粉
she powdered her face and put on a dab of perfume
她往脸上扑些粉，并洒了点香水。
Example sentencesExamples
- I guess next time I should wear an evening gown, do my hair in a fancy up do, maybe powder my face.
- She went all out in getting dressed in the mornings, doing up her hair and powdering her face.
- His face was powdered heavily, to cover the bruising and thinness of death.
- I then put on my necklace and started powdering my face.
- The pouf was retrieved, and soon her face was powdered in a very thin layer of chalky white, barely there.
- When talking to Mr. Horsfield, who will become her lover, she powders her face, appearing to Horsfield as controlled, furtive, and calculating.
- He powdered his face, his small nose crinkling at the smell.
- Here's a secret of the North Pole: Santa powders his hands with talc before donning his thick red mittens.
- They powdered her face and neck and pulled on the chemise.
- Mother powdered my face, brushing blush onto my cheeks and a dark lipstick on my lips that matched my hair.
- Despite the fact he was a guy, he worse black lipstick, black eyeshadow, and I'm pretty sure he powdered his face to get that perfect just-died paleness in his face.
- I applied a ton of dark eyeliner and mascara to my eyes and powdered my face a chalky white, which made me look like one of the ‘undead.’
- One faces the gunpowder while the other powders the face.
- And although powdering the face and hair and wearing some rouge were the rage in England, it wasn't applied like this woman wore it.
- Her face was powdered to perfection with a single beauty mark above and to the left of her soft lips.
- She then proceeded to powder my face unbearably until I sneezed.
- Damn these cheeks… do you reckon if I powdered my face up, people can't see if I blush?
- I quickly went in front of my vanity mirror to powder my face and add mascara and shadow.
- Then, just before they go in front of the judges, the horses' hair is powdered with sawdust and fluffed up with a comb.
- With that, he grabbed a puff and began powdering his face with limp wrists.
Synonyms
dust, sprinkle/dredge/cover with powder, talc
1. 1.1 Sprinkle or cover (a surface) with powder or a powdery substance.
  撒粉（状物）于（表面），以粉（状物）覆盖
  broken glass powdered the floor
  玻璃碎渣撒了一地。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The baby lay in front of her, powdered with plaster dust, and she pulled the child to her.
  The dance floor was freshly powdered for slippery Motown spins.
2Reduce (a substance) to a powder by drying or crushing it.
使（某物）成粉状
then the rose petals are dried and powdered
然后把玫瑰花瓣晒干，磨成粉。
Example sentencesExamples
- It seemed to me like a palace floor, strewn with roses and powdered gold.
- Other popular substances are powdered flowers and herbs or grains.
- You can even make your own natural insect repellent with a little liquid soap, powdered cayenne pepper, onion, garlic, and water mixed in a spray bottle.
- The herbs are powdered, and then mixed into a paste made with ground fruits and nuts, nut butters, and honey.
- Don't use an airtight one, otherwise the humidity inside will dampen the dry powdered ingredients.
- Mix 1,000 mg of each powdered herb into 1 ounce of ghee, a clarified butter, and use all of it as a cooking oil.
- Add whipped cream and powdered chocolate or vanilla to taste.
- In Trinidad, you can buy powdered coconut milk: and measurements in this post are based on this form of coconut milk.
- On one of the drops, our team received a package containing powdered coffee and chocolate, a real treat.
- A delicious sweet version can be made by mixing the ground black sesame with honey or dry powdered pure sugar cane juice extract.
- The Japanese drink powdered green tea, the bancha, in the form of an elaborate religious ceremony.
- When powdered slate is mixed with limestone it makes a good cement.
- Crack cocaine is a much different substance than powdered cocaine.
- Here the herb is powdered and pressed into gelatin capsules or pills.
- Shoe odour can be eliminated by sprinkling bicarbonate of soda or dry, powdered herbs, such as chamomile, in the shoes each evening.
- Buy powdered garden lime and dust it over the entire yard, especially where your pet's house is.
- Using a bamboo whisk, thick tea is prepared by mixing powdered green tea with just enough water to produce the proper consistency.
- With sources of potable water impaired, powdered milk is unusable in these circumstances, leaving the drink box the only source of milk for children and pregnant women.
- The grains of some finely powdered ingredients also have this property, including mustard powder - which is why, when making mayonnaise, mustard is added to the egg yolk before mixing in the oil.
- Sample was prepared by powdering the pills and passing through the mesh.
Synonyms
crush, grind, pulverize, pound, mill, granulate
technical comminute, triturate
archaic bray, levigate
dried, freeze-dried, dehydrated
technical lyophilized

Phrases

keep one's powder dry

Remain cautious and ready for a possible emergency.
保持警惕以应付可能的突发事件
Example sentencesExamples
- In the opening Bach, they kept their powder dry.
- And what's all this about keeping your powder dry?
- They're keeping their powder dry for nominee number two.
- Voters just kept their powder dry until someone viewed as credible came along.
- He plans to keep his powder dry for the flurry of deals likely to emerge in the sector.
- The feedback I'm getting from most sources around the traps is that they are spending a lot of effort on the sort of counter attack, and they're keeping their powder dry for the moment, letting National fire shots essentially into thin air.
- Nobody seems to know who the developers are - I suspect they are keeping their powder dry as they know what a prime site it is being 15 minutes from the airport and 10 minutes from Manchester.
- With two teams already declared as starters in Lismore, one of which is a Country Labor team, Richmond Valley candidates are so far keeping their powder dry as to possible allegiances.
- But shareholders were initially keeping their powder dry as they waited to see if the world's largest brewer would open up with a counter bid and raise the bidding stakes.
- Even though his side have won three of their last four matches against the French, he is under no illusions: ‘They have been quietly keeping their powder dry.’

powder one's nose

euphemistic (of a woman) go to the toilet.
〈婉〉（女人）上卫生间
Example sentencesExamples
- Be briefly cordial; if you can't stand it, go powder your nose and meet your boyfriend back at your seats.
- According to eyewitness reports, after arriving at a swanky house party, she popped upstairs to powder her nose.
- One such lady at the table adjacent to ours went to the toilet to powder her nose.
- She powdered her nose and returned to the stage.
- How's this for weird: my Dad went out to powder his nose, and came back and said ‘can you believe it?’
- How I long for a simpler time, when the only way to chew your leg out of the bad-date bear trap was to excuse yourself to powder your nose and wriggle through a restroom window…
- But beyond powdering one's nose, women and men surely have other expectations of their town centres.
- In that case, I think I'll just go powder my nose.
- She smiled back, put her napkin on the table and slipped away to powder her nose.
- Besides, you can ditch boring conversations by really going to powder your nose.

take a powder

informal Depart quickly, especially in order to avoid a difficult situation.
〈北美，非正式〉匆忙离去，逃跑（尤指逃避难堪局面）
Example sentencesExamples
- The police tend to think he just got fed up with the high-pressure lifestyle, and being caught between the two women in his life, and that he took a powder.
- So your stock tanked and your pension plan took a powder.
- The nation's most prestigious newspaper takes a powder, retreating from the insistent voice - in which it advises the administration to provide world ‘leadership’ with its ‘power’ - to a pathetically passive tone.’
- Pushed by their label to make their already completed record more radio-friendly, the band took a powder, built enormous fan interest by distributing the album online and released it on Nonesuch Records.
- But the way the bishops are going to learn this is by carrying their cross, not taking a powder when it gets hot.
- And when the dame took a powder, it was even worse: ‘I stopped in a bar and had a couple double Scotches.’
- He was the only one in the entire neighborhood that took a powder.
- Cast your mind back to the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria: When an influenza outbreak ripped through the ranks of athletes, 25 were forced to take a powder.
- To be priest is to carry the cross, not to take a powder.
- It's anybody's guess as to whether he will be allowed to take a powder now that his hypocrisy, mismanagement, corruption, vanity, arrogance, and, yes, cruelty, to victims has been exposed.
Synonyms
go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight

Origin

Middle English: from Old French poudre, from Latin pulvis, pulver- 'dust'.

Latin pulvis ‘dust’ is the source of pulverize (Late Middle English) as well as powder, which came into English via Old French poudre. If someone tells you to keep your powder dry they mean that you should be ready for action. Popular tradition attributes the advice put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry to the English statesman and general Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658). The combination of spiritual encouragement and practical measures is typical of him, but the line did not appear until the mid 19th century, nearly 300 years after his death, in an Irish ballad. In American English to take a powder is to depart quickly, especially in order to avoid a difficult situation. This may be based on the idea of a person fleeing down a road and raising dust as they go. Another theory is that it relates to a person taking a laxative powder and so having to rush to the toilet. A more genteel toilet-related expression is the euphemistic powder your nose, recorded since the 1920s.

Rhymes

chowder, Gouda, howdah, Lauda

Definition of powder in US English:

powder

nounˈpaʊdərˈpoudər

1Fine, dry particles produced by the grinding, crushing, or disintegration of a solid substance.
粉，粉末
count noun crush the poppy seeds to a powder
把罂粟籽磨成粉。
when the powder is mixed with water, it becomes a creamy white paste
用水把粉搅匀，就会变成乳白色的糊状物。
cocoa powder
可可粉。
Example sentencesExamples
- All that was left behind him was a fine, crushed multi-colored powder.
- The remaining cake, still containing a varying percentage of cocoa butter, is broken into smaller pieces to be sold as cocoa cake or ground into a fine cocoa powder.
- The final grinding again produces an extremely fine powder and close proximity of potentially reactive substances.
- The sand here is as fine as baby powder and blows up at a moments notice at the slightest movement of wind.
- The thickness of the laminae increased with the size of the particles of the fine powder, but not to any great extent as follows.
- What's the official term for the fine powder shed by muesli, and remaining at the end of the sack?
- After a quick dusting with fine aluminium powder, a clear print is taken and she compares it with a chart of trainer footprints.
- The sand, as Sam had said, was indeed, soft as powder and oozed cool and comfortingly through his bare toes.
- Whole leaves ground to a fine spice-like powder can be used as seasoning or in backing recipes for breads, cookies, cakes, and muffins.
- It was white and soft like powder, but it carried an aroma that could only be distinguished with the ocean.
- Crush the seeds to a fine powder with a pestle and mortar.
- Sift 2 cups of icing sugar and 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder into a bowl.
- Dust with translucent powder using a large brush.
- Polishing on a brush wheel with putty powder retained the crispness and grain marks of the stone wheels but acid polishing removes all these signs and tends to round off the edges of the cuts.
- Wet your toothbrush, dip it into the powder, and then brush your teeth and rinse as usual.
- He slowly rolls to his feet, blinks, and brushes the white ash-like powder off himself.
- They can then be pounded to pieces and made into fine powder through repeated grinding in water.
- Dried manure ground into fine powder by hooves and wagon wheels puffed up into the air and its pungent smell filled the town and drifted far outside the town.
- This substance was ground into powder, rendered to paste, and then used, for example, as body paint.
- The frozen mycelia were ground into fine powder with a mortar and pestle.
Synonyms
dust, fine particles, fine grains
1. 1.1 A cosmetic in the form of powder, applied to a person's face with a brush or soft pad.
  （化妆用）扑面香粉，香粉
  Example sentencesExamples
  Blow the excess powder off the brush before you begin, then smile into the mirror.
  I just knew the five most basic things - compact powder, eye shadow, blusher, eyeliner and lipstick.
  The lipsticks, eye shadows, blushes and translucent powder in this kit will help transform your looks in no time.
  Then set the base using powder - translucent is best.
  If you've been treating your complexion well, a dab of concealer over redness around the nose and mouth plus a dusting of loose powder will suffice.
  To cover spots, match concealer to skin tone, dot on a small amount at a time and set with translucent powder to even out pores and minimise shine on the T-zone.
  My face had been blanketed in pale powder and my cheeks brushed vigorously with pinky red rouge.
  I even tried putting on loose powder, which is supposed to help skin stay matte longer, but it didn't work this time.
  They put down their bags, and pulled out three sets of brushes and powder.
  Then dip the other end into loose powder and pat it on over the blemish.
  To keep the shine away, add a dab of loose or pressed powder.
  I quickly threw on foundation, powder, mascara, eye shadow, and lipstick.
  Make sure you have the basic tools: tweezers, cuticle scissors, clear mascara, a white eye pencil and an eyebrow pencil or powder.
  Sitting on the edge of a table as powder is brushed on his forehead and face, he looks dapper in a navy suit, light-blue tie, black dress shoes and trench coat.
  Leave a little extra powder on the brush, pop the cap on, and toss it in your bag for all-day touch-ups.
  She might not have any eye shadows on or powder for the face, yet she had on a soft shade of lipstick that you would miss if you were not observant - like Kevin.
  Instead I covered my face in a soft bronzing powder and coated my eyelashes with mascara.
  She was an attractive woman who wore little make up apart from lipstick and facial powder.
  My face was being attacked by powder and glosses and brushes were attacking my hair.
  I flipped down the visor and began to brush silver powder onto my eyelids.
2. 1.2dated A medicine or drug in the form of powder, usually designed to be dissolved in a liquid.
  〈旧〉药粉
  Example sentencesExamples
  Do not use teething lotions, powders, whiskey, or paregoric (because it has opium in it).
  The leaves and seeds, which mature in long pods, are used to prepare extracts or powders for medicinal use.
  Well, unfortunately, is that this drug does not come in pill form, or as a powder or liquid.
  Pills, powders, caplets, tablets, tinctures, oils and herb formulas can aid good health, but only if they're supplemental to a good diet.
  As well as tinctures, homeopathic remedies are available as sugar-based tablets, pills, granules and powders to be taken by mouth, and some also come as creams or ointments to be applied directly to the skin.
3. 1.3
  short for gunpowder (sense 1)
  Example sentencesExamples
  My religion consists in a firelock, open touchhole, good flint, well rammed charge, and seventy rounds of powder and ball.
  The United States did not adopt the newfangled smokeless powder until 1892, a few years after it became widely available.
  Among the tribe, Bent earned a reputation as a gunsmith, taking powder from captured grenades and using animal tissue for cartridge paper to plump up ammunition stocks.
  He also coinvented the explosive powder cordite and even worked in collaboration with legendary chemist Pierre Curie.
  Two of these, obviously, are firearms and black powder or modern powder substitutes, such as Pyrodex or Triple Seven.
  I pour out a box of black projectile powder, much to the alarm of the two onlookers, and fill it up with my treasures.
  Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute's warning.
  It exerts the best leverage in seating the ball over the powder of any percussion revolver ever produced.
  And I flung myself on top of him, and there was this awful noise, the smell of cordite, death, powder, gunpowder, everything and that passed over.
  Doctors also treated a teenager who attempted to build an explosive device with a lead pipe and powder from shotgun cartridges.
2Light, dry, newly fallen snow.
in Aspen, blue skies and good powder drew in record numbers
the promise of fresh powder snow brought more than 1300 excited guests to the mountain
as modifier powder skiing
Example sentencesExamples
- Janet trudged through the freshly fallen silent shroud of powder.
- Since the epic dump last week, the weather has warmed a little, and we have received nothing but sleet and rain, which has turned the once fluffy powder snow into granulated sugar snow.
- There was something about the newly falling powder snow that created a haven, erasing all the difficulties the past few weeks had presented and allowed it to be just me and the perfect world outside.
- Yet all was not powder snow twinkling in a rosy sunrise, and morale continued at a low ebb.
- The sun shone in a clear blue sky, and powder snow sparkled below us.
- He was sitting in loose powder snow on a steep slope and there was no way he could anchor himself to the mountain.
- Gradually the sun warms up and then, finally, a band of bright, pale gold hits the snow and the fresh powder begins to sparkle beneath your skis.
- You want lots and lots of freshly fallen powder?
- There are fantastic conditions in the US and Canada, where new snow and fresh powder make perfect skiing.
- I seldom ski steep winter powder, and I'm careful about which days I go out.
- Colorado: the name conjures up images of deep powder, clear blue skies and great skiing.
- I chose my line of untracked snow and pushed off, testing my telemark turns in the knee-deep powder.
- His only accompaniment was the soft hiss of snow passing beneath his skis and the low whistle of the wind as it shaped the loose powder.
- After dinner, walk outside, take a deep breath of the pine-scented air, and enjoy the moonlight on ponderosa trunks that peek through a layer of fresh powder snow, and the inky mountains in the distance.
- In order to prevent wet powder snow from sticking to the dirt that works its way into the tread pattern, the kick zone especially needs to stay clean.
- Few of the massed ranks of skiers discussing last night's disco at the restaurant get to know the delights of skiing over fresh powder.
- Examination of forage craters indicated that caribou had to contend with only a few centimetres of soft powder snow with a loose granular base.
- I have only skied on them for one day and mostly in heavy snow, not powder.
- I realized that the effects of riding on powder snow would be very similar to riding on water.
- Are you thinking about whether your toboggan is made of wood or Plexiglas, or whether the snow is deep powder or sleet?

verbˈpaʊdərˈpoudər

[with object]

1Apply powder to (the face or body)
往（脸或身体）搽粉
she powdered her face and put on a dab of perfume
她往脸上扑些粉，并洒了点香水。
Example sentencesExamples
- Here's a secret of the North Pole: Santa powders his hands with talc before donning his thick red mittens.
- With that, he grabbed a puff and began powdering his face with limp wrists.
- One faces the gunpowder while the other powders the face.
- Despite the fact he was a guy, he worse black lipstick, black eyeshadow, and I'm pretty sure he powdered his face to get that perfect just-died paleness in his face.
- She went all out in getting dressed in the mornings, doing up her hair and powdering her face.
- I guess next time I should wear an evening gown, do my hair in a fancy up do, maybe powder my face.
- I then put on my necklace and started powdering my face.
- Mother powdered my face, brushing blush onto my cheeks and a dark lipstick on my lips that matched my hair.
- Her face was powdered to perfection with a single beauty mark above and to the left of her soft lips.
- He powdered his face, his small nose crinkling at the smell.
- I quickly went in front of my vanity mirror to powder my face and add mascara and shadow.
- His face was powdered heavily, to cover the bruising and thinness of death.
- I applied a ton of dark eyeliner and mascara to my eyes and powdered my face a chalky white, which made me look like one of the ‘undead.’
- The pouf was retrieved, and soon her face was powdered in a very thin layer of chalky white, barely there.
- Damn these cheeks… do you reckon if I powdered my face up, people can't see if I blush?
- They powdered her face and neck and pulled on the chemise.
- Then, just before they go in front of the judges, the horses' hair is powdered with sawdust and fluffed up with a comb.
- When talking to Mr. Horsfield, who will become her lover, she powders her face, appearing to Horsfield as controlled, furtive, and calculating.
- And although powdering the face and hair and wearing some rouge were the rage in England, it wasn't applied like this woman wore it.
- She then proceeded to powder my face unbearably until I sneezed.
Synonyms
dust, cover with powder, dredge with powder, sprinkle with powder, talc
1. 1.1 Sprinkle or cover (a surface) with powder or a powdery substance.
  撒粉（状物）于（表面），以粉（状物）覆盖
  broken glass powdered the floor
  玻璃碎渣撒了一地。
  figurative high cheekbones powdered with freckles
  〈喻〉高高的颧骨上布满雀斑。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The baby lay in front of her, powdered with plaster dust, and she pulled the child to her.
  The dance floor was freshly powdered for slippery Motown spins.
2Reduce (a substance) to a powder by drying or crushing it.
使（某物）成粉状
then the rose petals are dried and powdered
然后把玫瑰花瓣晒干，磨成粉。
Example sentencesExamples
- A delicious sweet version can be made by mixing the ground black sesame with honey or dry powdered pure sugar cane juice extract.
- It seemed to me like a palace floor, strewn with roses and powdered gold.
- On one of the drops, our team received a package containing powdered coffee and chocolate, a real treat.
- Using a bamboo whisk, thick tea is prepared by mixing powdered green tea with just enough water to produce the proper consistency.
- When powdered slate is mixed with limestone it makes a good cement.
- The grains of some finely powdered ingredients also have this property, including mustard powder - which is why, when making mayonnaise, mustard is added to the egg yolk before mixing in the oil.
- Sample was prepared by powdering the pills and passing through the mesh.
- In Trinidad, you can buy powdered coconut milk: and measurements in this post are based on this form of coconut milk.
- The Japanese drink powdered green tea, the bancha, in the form of an elaborate religious ceremony.
- Buy powdered garden lime and dust it over the entire yard, especially where your pet's house is.
- Shoe odour can be eliminated by sprinkling bicarbonate of soda or dry, powdered herbs, such as chamomile, in the shoes each evening.
- Don't use an airtight one, otherwise the humidity inside will dampen the dry powdered ingredients.
- Add whipped cream and powdered chocolate or vanilla to taste.
- You can even make your own natural insect repellent with a little liquid soap, powdered cayenne pepper, onion, garlic, and water mixed in a spray bottle.
- Crack cocaine is a much different substance than powdered cocaine.
- Other popular substances are powdered flowers and herbs or grains.
- The herbs are powdered, and then mixed into a paste made with ground fruits and nuts, nut butters, and honey.
- Mix 1,000 mg of each powdered herb into 1 ounce of ghee, a clarified butter, and use all of it as a cooking oil.
- Here the herb is powdered and pressed into gelatin capsules or pills.
- With sources of potable water impaired, powdered milk is unusable in these circumstances, leaving the drink box the only source of milk for children and pregnant women.
Synonyms
dried, freeze-dried, dehydrated
crush, grind, pulverize, pound, mill, granulate

Phrases

keep one's powder dry

Remain cautious and ready for a possible emergency.
保持警惕以应付可能的突发事件
Example sentencesExamples
- In the opening Bach, they kept their powder dry.
- Voters just kept their powder dry until someone viewed as credible came along.
- With two teams already declared as starters in Lismore, one of which is a Country Labor team, Richmond Valley candidates are so far keeping their powder dry as to possible allegiances.
- He plans to keep his powder dry for the flurry of deals likely to emerge in the sector.
- Even though his side have won three of their last four matches against the French, he is under no illusions: ‘They have been quietly keeping their powder dry.’
- The feedback I'm getting from most sources around the traps is that they are spending a lot of effort on the sort of counter attack, and they're keeping their powder dry for the moment, letting National fire shots essentially into thin air.
- Nobody seems to know who the developers are - I suspect they are keeping their powder dry as they know what a prime site it is being 15 minutes from the airport and 10 minutes from Manchester.
- And what's all this about keeping your powder dry?
- They're keeping their powder dry for nominee number two.
- But shareholders were initially keeping their powder dry as they waited to see if the world's largest brewer would open up with a counter bid and raise the bidding stakes.

take a powder

informal Depart quickly, especially in order to avoid a difficult situation.
〈北美，非正式〉匆忙离去，逃跑（尤指逃避难堪局面）
Example sentencesExamples
- It's anybody's guess as to whether he will be allowed to take a powder now that his hypocrisy, mismanagement, corruption, vanity, arrogance, and, yes, cruelty, to victims has been exposed.
- So your stock tanked and your pension plan took a powder.
- Pushed by their label to make their already completed record more radio-friendly, the band took a powder, built enormous fan interest by distributing the album online and released it on Nonesuch Records.
- He was the only one in the entire neighborhood that took a powder.
- And when the dame took a powder, it was even worse: ‘I stopped in a bar and had a couple double Scotches.’
- But the way the bishops are going to learn this is by carrying their cross, not taking a powder when it gets hot.
- The nation's most prestigious newspaper takes a powder, retreating from the insistent voice - in which it advises the administration to provide world ‘leadership’ with its ‘power’ - to a pathetically passive tone.’
- The police tend to think he just got fed up with the high-pressure lifestyle, and being caught between the two women in his life, and that he took a powder.
- To be priest is to carry the cross, not to take a powder.
- Cast your mind back to the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria: When an influenza outbreak ripped through the ranks of athletes, 25 were forced to take a powder.
Synonyms
go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight

Origin

Middle English: from Old French poudre, from Latin pulvis, pulver- ‘dust’.

单词	powder
释义	Definition of powder in English: powder noun ˈpaʊdəˈpaʊdər mass noun 1Fine, dry particles produced by the grinding, crushing, or disintegration of a solid substance. 粉，粉末 add four tablespoons of cocoa powder count noun crush the poppy seeds to a powder 把罂粟籽磨成粉。 Example sentencesExamples The frozen mycelia were ground into fine powder with a mortar and pestle. All that was left behind him was a fine, crushed multi-colored powder. What's the official term for the fine powder shed by muesli, and remaining at the end of the sack? Crush the seeds to a fine powder with a pestle and mortar. Polishing on a brush wheel with putty powder retained the crispness and grain marks of the stone wheels but acid polishing removes all these signs and tends to round off the edges of the cuts. He slowly rolls to his feet, blinks, and brushes the white ash-like powder off himself. The remaining cake, still containing a varying percentage of cocoa butter, is broken into smaller pieces to be sold as cocoa cake or ground into a fine cocoa powder. Sift 2 cups of icing sugar and 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder into a bowl. It was white and soft like powder, but it carried an aroma that could only be distinguished with the ocean. Whole leaves ground to a fine spice-like powder can be used as seasoning or in backing recipes for breads, cookies, cakes, and muffins. Wet your toothbrush, dip it into the powder, and then brush your teeth and rinse as usual. Dried manure ground into fine powder by hooves and wagon wheels puffed up into the air and its pungent smell filled the town and drifted far outside the town. After a quick dusting with fine aluminium powder, a clear print is taken and she compares it with a chart of trainer footprints. They can then be pounded to pieces and made into fine powder through repeated grinding in water. Dust with translucent powder using a large brush. The final grinding again produces an extremely fine powder and close proximity of potentially reactive substances. This substance was ground into powder, rendered to paste, and then used, for example, as body paint. The sand here is as fine as baby powder and blows up at a moments notice at the slightest movement of wind. The thickness of the laminae increased with the size of the particles of the fine powder, but not to any great extent as follows. The sand, as Sam had said, was indeed, soft as powder and oozed cool and comfortingly through his bare toes. Synonyms dust, fine particles, fine grains talcum powder, talc archaic pulvil, pulvilio rare pounce 1.1 A cosmetic in the form of powder, applied to a person's face with a brush or soft pad. （化妆用）扑面香粉，香粉 she applied lipstick and powder a light dusting of translucent powder Example sentencesExamples She was an attractive woman who wore little make up apart from lipstick and facial powder. Sitting on the edge of a table as powder is brushed on his forehead and face, he looks dapper in a navy suit, light-blue tie, black dress shoes and trench coat. I flipped down the visor and began to brush silver powder onto my eyelids. If you've been treating your complexion well, a dab of concealer over redness around the nose and mouth plus a dusting of loose powder will suffice. My face was being attacked by powder and glosses and brushes were attacking my hair. They put down their bags, and pulled out three sets of brushes and powder. Then dip the other end into loose powder and pat it on over the blemish. She might not have any eye shadows on or powder for the face, yet she had on a soft shade of lipstick that you would miss if you were not observant - like Kevin. Then set the base using powder - translucent is best. Instead I covered my face in a soft bronzing powder and coated my eyelashes with mascara. I just knew the five most basic things - compact powder, eye shadow, blusher, eyeliner and lipstick. I quickly threw on foundation, powder, mascara, eye shadow, and lipstick. The lipsticks, eye shadows, blushes and translucent powder in this kit will help transform your looks in no time. Leave a little extra powder on the brush, pop the cap on, and toss it in your bag for all-day touch-ups. Blow the excess powder off the brush before you begin, then smile into the mirror. To keep the shine away, add a dab of loose or pressed powder. I even tried putting on loose powder, which is supposed to help skin stay matte longer, but it didn't work this time. My face had been blanketed in pale powder and my cheeks brushed vigorously with pinky red rouge. To cover spots, match concealer to skin tone, dot on a small amount at a time and set with translucent powder to even out pores and minimise shine on the T-zone. Make sure you have the basic tools: tweezers, cuticle scissors, clear mascara, a white eye pencil and an eyebrow pencil or powder. 1.2dated count noun A medicine or drug in the form of powder, usually designed to be dissolved in a liquid. 〈旧〉药粉 she dropped a powder into his water glass Example sentencesExamples Pills, powders, caplets, tablets, tinctures, oils and herb formulas can aid good health, but only if they're supplemental to a good diet. As well as tinctures, homeopathic remedies are available as sugar-based tablets, pills, granules and powders to be taken by mouth, and some also come as creams or ointments to be applied directly to the skin. The leaves and seeds, which mature in long pods, are used to prepare extracts or powders for medicinal use. Well, unfortunately, is that this drug does not come in pill form, or as a powder or liquid. Do not use teething lotions, powders, whiskey, or paregoric (because it has opium in it). 1.3 Gunpowder. Example sentencesExamples And I flung myself on top of him, and there was this awful noise, the smell of cordite, death, powder, gunpowder, everything and that passed over. My religion consists in a firelock, open touchhole, good flint, well rammed charge, and seventy rounds of powder and ball. Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute's warning. He also coinvented the explosive powder cordite and even worked in collaboration with legendary chemist Pierre Curie. Doctors also treated a teenager who attempted to build an explosive device with a lead pipe and powder from shotgun cartridges. It exerts the best leverage in seating the ball over the powder of any percussion revolver ever produced. The United States did not adopt the newfangled smokeless powder until 1892, a few years after it became widely available. Two of these, obviously, are firearms and black powder or modern powder substitutes, such as Pyrodex or Triple Seven. I pour out a box of black projectile powder, much to the alarm of the two onlookers, and fill it up with my treasures. Among the tribe, Bent earned a reputation as a gunsmith, taking powder from captured grenades and using animal tissue for cartridge paper to plump up ammunition stocks. 2Loose, dry, newly fallen snow. 粉末雪 in Aspen, blue skies and good powder drew in record numbers the promise of fresh powder snow brought more than 1300 excited guests to the mountain as modifier powder skiing Example sentencesExamples There are fantastic conditions in the US and Canada, where new snow and fresh powder make perfect skiing. There was something about the newly falling powder snow that created a haven, erasing all the difficulties the past few weeks had presented and allowed it to be just me and the perfect world outside. His only accompaniment was the soft hiss of snow passing beneath his skis and the low whistle of the wind as it shaped the loose powder. The sun shone in a clear blue sky, and powder snow sparkled below us. I chose my line of untracked snow and pushed off, testing my telemark turns in the knee-deep powder. Since the epic dump last week, the weather has warmed a little, and we have received nothing but sleet and rain, which has turned the once fluffy powder snow into granulated sugar snow. He was sitting in loose powder snow on a steep slope and there was no way he could anchor himself to the mountain. Gradually the sun warms up and then, finally, a band of bright, pale gold hits the snow and the fresh powder begins to sparkle beneath your skis. You want lots and lots of freshly fallen powder? I realized that the effects of riding on powder snow would be very similar to riding on water. Are you thinking about whether your toboggan is made of wood or Plexiglas, or whether the snow is deep powder or sleet? Yet all was not powder snow twinkling in a rosy sunrise, and morale continued at a low ebb. Examination of forage craters indicated that caribou had to contend with only a few centimetres of soft powder snow with a loose granular base. Colorado: the name conjures up images of deep powder, clear blue skies and great skiing. I have only skied on them for one day and mostly in heavy snow, not powder. After dinner, walk outside, take a deep breath of the pine-scented air, and enjoy the moonlight on ponderosa trunks that peek through a layer of fresh powder snow, and the inky mountains in the distance. In order to prevent wet powder snow from sticking to the dirt that works its way into the tread pattern, the kick zone especially needs to stay clean. Few of the massed ranks of skiers discussing last night's disco at the restaurant get to know the delights of skiing over fresh powder. Janet trudged through the freshly fallen silent shroud of powder. I seldom ski steep winter powder, and I'm careful about which days I go out. verb ˈpaʊdəˈpaʊdər [with object] 1Apply cosmetic powder to (the face or body) 往（脸或身体）搽粉 she powdered her face and put on a dab of perfume 她往脸上扑些粉，并洒了点香水。 Example sentencesExamples I guess next time I should wear an evening gown, do my hair in a fancy up do, maybe powder my face. She went all out in getting dressed in the mornings, doing up her hair and powdering her face. His face was powdered heavily, to cover the bruising and thinness of death. I then put on my necklace and started powdering my face. The pouf was retrieved, and soon her face was powdered in a very thin layer of chalky white, barely there. When talking to Mr. Horsfield, who will become her lover, she powders her face, appearing to Horsfield as controlled, furtive, and calculating. He powdered his face, his small nose crinkling at the smell. Here's a secret of the North Pole: Santa powders his hands with talc before donning his thick red mittens. They powdered her face and neck and pulled on the chemise. Mother powdered my face, brushing blush onto my cheeks and a dark lipstick on my lips that matched my hair. Despite the fact he was a guy, he worse black lipstick, black eyeshadow, and I'm pretty sure he powdered his face to get that perfect just-died paleness in his face. I applied a ton of dark eyeliner and mascara to my eyes and powdered my face a chalky white, which made me look like one of the ‘undead.’ One faces the gunpowder while the other powders the face. And although powdering the face and hair and wearing some rouge were the rage in England, it wasn't applied like this woman wore it. Her face was powdered to perfection with a single beauty mark above and to the left of her soft lips. She then proceeded to powder my face unbearably until I sneezed. Damn these cheeks… do you reckon if I powdered my face up, people can't see if I blush? I quickly went in front of my vanity mirror to powder my face and add mascara and shadow. Then, just before they go in front of the judges, the horses' hair is powdered with sawdust and fluffed up with a comb. With that, he grabbed a puff and began powdering his face with limp wrists. Synonyms dust, sprinkle/dredge/cover with powder, talc 1.1 Sprinkle or cover (a surface) with powder or a powdery substance. 撒粉（状物）于（表面），以粉（状物）覆盖 broken glass powdered the floor 玻璃碎渣撒了一地。 Example sentencesExamples The baby lay in front of her, powdered with plaster dust, and she pulled the child to her. The dance floor was freshly powdered for slippery Motown spins. 2Reduce (a substance) to a powder by drying or crushing it. 使（某物）成粉状 then the rose petals are dried and powdered 然后把玫瑰花瓣晒干，磨成粉。 Example sentencesExamples It seemed to me like a palace floor, strewn with roses and powdered gold. Other popular substances are powdered flowers and herbs or grains. You can even make your own natural insect repellent with a little liquid soap, powdered cayenne pepper, onion, garlic, and water mixed in a spray bottle. The herbs are powdered, and then mixed into a paste made with ground fruits and nuts, nut butters, and honey. Don't use an airtight one, otherwise the humidity inside will dampen the dry powdered ingredients. Mix 1,000 mg of each powdered herb into 1 ounce of ghee, a clarified butter, and use all of it as a cooking oil. Add whipped cream and powdered chocolate or vanilla to taste. In Trinidad, you can buy powdered coconut milk: and measurements in this post are based on this form of coconut milk. On one of the drops, our team received a package containing powdered coffee and chocolate, a real treat. A delicious sweet version can be made by mixing the ground black sesame with honey or dry powdered pure sugar cane juice extract. The Japanese drink powdered green tea, the bancha, in the form of an elaborate religious ceremony. When powdered slate is mixed with limestone it makes a good cement. Crack cocaine is a much different substance than powdered cocaine. Here the herb is powdered and pressed into gelatin capsules or pills. Shoe odour can be eliminated by sprinkling bicarbonate of soda or dry, powdered herbs, such as chamomile, in the shoes each evening. Buy powdered garden lime and dust it over the entire yard, especially where your pet's house is. Using a bamboo whisk, thick tea is prepared by mixing powdered green tea with just enough water to produce the proper consistency. With sources of potable water impaired, powdered milk is unusable in these circumstances, leaving the drink box the only source of milk for children and pregnant women. The grains of some finely powdered ingredients also have this property, including mustard powder - which is why, when making mayonnaise, mustard is added to the egg yolk before mixing in the oil. Sample was prepared by powdering the pills and passing through the mesh. Synonyms crush, grind, pulverize, pound, mill, granulate technical comminute, triturate archaic bray, levigate dried, freeze-dried, dehydrated technical lyophilized Phrases keep one's powder dry Remain cautious and ready for a possible emergency. 保持警惕以应付可能的突发事件 Example sentencesExamples In the opening Bach, they kept their powder dry. And what's all this about keeping your powder dry? They're keeping their powder dry for nominee number two. Voters just kept their powder dry until someone viewed as credible came along. He plans to keep his powder dry for the flurry of deals likely to emerge in the sector. The feedback I'm getting from most sources around the traps is that they are spending a lot of effort on the sort of counter attack, and they're keeping their powder dry for the moment, letting National fire shots essentially into thin air. Nobody seems to know who the developers are - I suspect they are keeping their powder dry as they know what a prime site it is being 15 minutes from the airport and 10 minutes from Manchester. With two teams already declared as starters in Lismore, one of which is a Country Labor team, Richmond Valley candidates are so far keeping their powder dry as to possible allegiances. But shareholders were initially keeping their powder dry as they waited to see if the world's largest brewer would open up with a counter bid and raise the bidding stakes. Even though his side have won three of their last four matches against the French, he is under no illusions: ‘They have been quietly keeping their powder dry.’ powder one's nose euphemistic (of a woman) go to the toilet. 〈婉〉（女人）上卫生间 Example sentencesExamples Be briefly cordial; if you can't stand it, go powder your nose and meet your boyfriend back at your seats. According to eyewitness reports, after arriving at a swanky house party, she popped upstairs to powder her nose. One such lady at the table adjacent to ours went to the toilet to powder her nose. She powdered her nose and returned to the stage. How's this for weird: my Dad went out to powder his nose, and came back and said ‘can you believe it?’ How I long for a simpler time, when the only way to chew your leg out of the bad-date bear trap was to excuse yourself to powder your nose and wriggle through a restroom window… But beyond powdering one's nose, women and men surely have other expectations of their town centres. In that case, I think I'll just go powder my nose. She smiled back, put her napkin on the table and slipped away to powder her nose. Besides, you can ditch boring conversations by really going to powder your nose. take a powder informal Depart quickly, especially in order to avoid a difficult situation. 〈北美，非正式〉匆忙离去，逃跑（尤指逃避难堪局面） Example sentencesExamples The police tend to think he just got fed up with the high-pressure lifestyle, and being caught between the two women in his life, and that he took a powder. So your stock tanked and your pension plan took a powder. The nation's most prestigious newspaper takes a powder, retreating from the insistent voice - in which it advises the administration to provide world ‘leadership’ with its ‘power’ - to a pathetically passive tone.’ Pushed by their label to make their already completed record more radio-friendly, the band took a powder, built enormous fan interest by distributing the album online and released it on Nonesuch Records. But the way the bishops are going to learn this is by carrying their cross, not taking a powder when it gets hot. And when the dame took a powder, it was even worse: ‘I stopped in a bar and had a couple double Scotches.’ He was the only one in the entire neighborhood that took a powder. Cast your mind back to the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria: When an influenza outbreak ripped through the ranks of athletes, 25 were forced to take a powder. To be priest is to carry the cross, not to take a powder. It's anybody's guess as to whether he will be allowed to take a powder now that his hypocrisy, mismanagement, corruption, vanity, arrogance, and, yes, cruelty, to victims has been exposed. Synonyms go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight Origin Middle English: from Old French poudre, from Latin pulvis, pulver- 'dust'. Latin pulvis ‘dust’ is the source of pulverize (Late Middle English) as well as powder, which came into English via Old French poudre. If someone tells you to keep your powder dry they mean that you should be ready for action. Popular tradition attributes the advice put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry to the English statesman and general Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658). The combination of spiritual encouragement and practical measures is typical of him, but the line did not appear until the mid 19th century, nearly 300 years after his death, in an Irish ballad. In American English to take a powder is to depart quickly, especially in order to avoid a difficult situation. This may be based on the idea of a person fleeing down a road and raising dust as they go. Another theory is that it relates to a person taking a laxative powder and so having to rush to the toilet. A more genteel toilet-related expression is the euphemistic powder your nose, recorded since the 1920s. Rhymes chowder, Gouda, howdah, Lauda noun.1 phr. Definition of powder in US English: powder nounˈpaʊdərˈpoudər 1Fine, dry particles produced by the grinding, crushing, or disintegration of a solid substance. 粉，粉末 count noun crush the poppy seeds to a powder 把罂粟籽磨成粉。 when the powder is mixed with water, it becomes a creamy white paste 用水把粉搅匀，就会变成乳白色的糊状物。 cocoa powder 可可粉。 Example sentencesExamples All that was left behind him was a fine, crushed multi-colored powder. The remaining cake, still containing a varying percentage of cocoa butter, is broken into smaller pieces to be sold as cocoa cake or ground into a fine cocoa powder. The final grinding again produces an extremely fine powder and close proximity of potentially reactive substances. The sand here is as fine as baby powder and blows up at a moments notice at the slightest movement of wind. The thickness of the laminae increased with the size of the particles of the fine powder, but not to any great extent as follows. What's the official term for the fine powder shed by muesli, and remaining at the end of the sack? After a quick dusting with fine aluminium powder, a clear print is taken and she compares it with a chart of trainer footprints. The sand, as Sam had said, was indeed, soft as powder and oozed cool and comfortingly through his bare toes. Whole leaves ground to a fine spice-like powder can be used as seasoning or in backing recipes for breads, cookies, cakes, and muffins. It was white and soft like powder, but it carried an aroma that could only be distinguished with the ocean. Crush the seeds to a fine powder with a pestle and mortar. Sift 2 cups of icing sugar and 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder into a bowl. Dust with translucent powder using a large brush. Polishing on a brush wheel with putty powder retained the crispness and grain marks of the stone wheels but acid polishing removes all these signs and tends to round off the edges of the cuts. Wet your toothbrush, dip it into the powder, and then brush your teeth and rinse as usual. He slowly rolls to his feet, blinks, and brushes the white ash-like powder off himself. They can then be pounded to pieces and made into fine powder through repeated grinding in water. Dried manure ground into fine powder by hooves and wagon wheels puffed up into the air and its pungent smell filled the town and drifted far outside the town. This substance was ground into powder, rendered to paste, and then used, for example, as body paint. The frozen mycelia were ground into fine powder with a mortar and pestle. Synonyms dust, fine particles, fine grains 1.1 A cosmetic in the form of powder, applied to a person's face with a brush or soft pad. （化妆用）扑面香粉，香粉 Example sentencesExamples Blow the excess powder off the brush before you begin, then smile into the mirror. I just knew the five most basic things - compact powder, eye shadow, blusher, eyeliner and lipstick. The lipsticks, eye shadows, blushes and translucent powder in this kit will help transform your looks in no time. Then set the base using powder - translucent is best. If you've been treating your complexion well, a dab of concealer over redness around the nose and mouth plus a dusting of loose powder will suffice. To cover spots, match concealer to skin tone, dot on a small amount at a time and set with translucent powder to even out pores and minimise shine on the T-zone. My face had been blanketed in pale powder and my cheeks brushed vigorously with pinky red rouge. I even tried putting on loose powder, which is supposed to help skin stay matte longer, but it didn't work this time. They put down their bags, and pulled out three sets of brushes and powder. Then dip the other end into loose powder and pat it on over the blemish. To keep the shine away, add a dab of loose or pressed powder. I quickly threw on foundation, powder, mascara, eye shadow, and lipstick. Make sure you have the basic tools: tweezers, cuticle scissors, clear mascara, a white eye pencil and an eyebrow pencil or powder. Sitting on the edge of a table as powder is brushed on his forehead and face, he looks dapper in a navy suit, light-blue tie, black dress shoes and trench coat. Leave a little extra powder on the brush, pop the cap on, and toss it in your bag for all-day touch-ups. She might not have any eye shadows on or powder for the face, yet she had on a soft shade of lipstick that you would miss if you were not observant - like Kevin. Instead I covered my face in a soft bronzing powder and coated my eyelashes with mascara. She was an attractive woman who wore little make up apart from lipstick and facial powder. My face was being attacked by powder and glosses and brushes were attacking my hair. I flipped down the visor and began to brush silver powder onto my eyelids. 1.2dated A medicine or drug in the form of powder, usually designed to be dissolved in a liquid. 〈旧〉药粉 Example sentencesExamples Do not use teething lotions, powders, whiskey, or paregoric (because it has opium in it). The leaves and seeds, which mature in long pods, are used to prepare extracts or powders for medicinal use. Well, unfortunately, is that this drug does not come in pill form, or as a powder or liquid. Pills, powders, caplets, tablets, tinctures, oils and herb formulas can aid good health, but only if they're supplemental to a good diet. As well as tinctures, homeopathic remedies are available as sugar-based tablets, pills, granules and powders to be taken by mouth, and some also come as creams or ointments to be applied directly to the skin. 1.3 short for gunpowder (sense 1) Example sentencesExamples My religion consists in a firelock, open touchhole, good flint, well rammed charge, and seventy rounds of powder and ball. The United States did not adopt the newfangled smokeless powder until 1892, a few years after it became widely available. Among the tribe, Bent earned a reputation as a gunsmith, taking powder from captured grenades and using animal tissue for cartridge paper to plump up ammunition stocks. He also coinvented the explosive powder cordite and even worked in collaboration with legendary chemist Pierre Curie. Two of these, obviously, are firearms and black powder or modern powder substitutes, such as Pyrodex or Triple Seven. I pour out a box of black projectile powder, much to the alarm of the two onlookers, and fill it up with my treasures. Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute's warning. It exerts the best leverage in seating the ball over the powder of any percussion revolver ever produced. And I flung myself on top of him, and there was this awful noise, the smell of cordite, death, powder, gunpowder, everything and that passed over. Doctors also treated a teenager who attempted to build an explosive device with a lead pipe and powder from shotgun cartridges. 2Light, dry, newly fallen snow. in Aspen, blue skies and good powder drew in record numbers the promise of fresh powder snow brought more than 1300 excited guests to the mountain as modifier powder skiing Example sentencesExamples Janet trudged through the freshly fallen silent shroud of powder. Since the epic dump last week, the weather has warmed a little, and we have received nothing but sleet and rain, which has turned the once fluffy powder snow into granulated sugar snow. There was something about the newly falling powder snow that created a haven, erasing all the difficulties the past few weeks had presented and allowed it to be just me and the perfect world outside. Yet all was not powder snow twinkling in a rosy sunrise, and morale continued at a low ebb. The sun shone in a clear blue sky, and powder snow sparkled below us. He was sitting in loose powder snow on a steep slope and there was no way he could anchor himself to the mountain. Gradually the sun warms up and then, finally, a band of bright, pale gold hits the snow and the fresh powder begins to sparkle beneath your skis. You want lots and lots of freshly fallen powder? There are fantastic conditions in the US and Canada, where new snow and fresh powder make perfect skiing. I seldom ski steep winter powder, and I'm careful about which days I go out. Colorado: the name conjures up images of deep powder, clear blue skies and great skiing. I chose my line of untracked snow and pushed off, testing my telemark turns in the knee-deep powder. His only accompaniment was the soft hiss of snow passing beneath his skis and the low whistle of the wind as it shaped the loose powder. After dinner, walk outside, take a deep breath of the pine-scented air, and enjoy the moonlight on ponderosa trunks that peek through a layer of fresh powder snow, and the inky mountains in the distance. In order to prevent wet powder snow from sticking to the dirt that works its way into the tread pattern, the kick zone especially needs to stay clean. Few of the massed ranks of skiers discussing last night's disco at the restaurant get to know the delights of skiing over fresh powder. Examination of forage craters indicated that caribou had to contend with only a few centimetres of soft powder snow with a loose granular base. I have only skied on them for one day and mostly in heavy snow, not powder. I realized that the effects of riding on powder snow would be very similar to riding on water. Are you thinking about whether your toboggan is made of wood or Plexiglas, or whether the snow is deep powder or sleet? verbˈpaʊdərˈpoudər [with object] 1Apply powder to (the face or body) 往（脸或身体）搽粉 she powdered her face and put on a dab of perfume 她往脸上扑些粉，并洒了点香水。 Example sentencesExamples Here's a secret of the North Pole: Santa powders his hands with talc before donning his thick red mittens. With that, he grabbed a puff and began powdering his face with limp wrists. One faces the gunpowder while the other powders the face. Despite the fact he was a guy, he worse black lipstick, black eyeshadow, and I'm pretty sure he powdered his face to get that perfect just-died paleness in his face. She went all out in getting dressed in the mornings, doing up her hair and powdering her face. I guess next time I should wear an evening gown, do my hair in a fancy up do, maybe powder my face. I then put on my necklace and started powdering my face. Mother powdered my face, brushing blush onto my cheeks and a dark lipstick on my lips that matched my hair. Her face was powdered to perfection with a single beauty mark above and to the left of her soft lips. He powdered his face, his small nose crinkling at the smell. I quickly went in front of my vanity mirror to powder my face and add mascara and shadow. His face was powdered heavily, to cover the bruising and thinness of death. I applied a ton of dark eyeliner and mascara to my eyes and powdered my face a chalky white, which made me look like one of the ‘undead.’ The pouf was retrieved, and soon her face was powdered in a very thin layer of chalky white, barely there. Damn these cheeks… do you reckon if I powdered my face up, people can't see if I blush? They powdered her face and neck and pulled on the chemise. Then, just before they go in front of the judges, the horses' hair is powdered with sawdust and fluffed up with a comb. When talking to Mr. Horsfield, who will become her lover, she powders her face, appearing to Horsfield as controlled, furtive, and calculating. And although powdering the face and hair and wearing some rouge were the rage in England, it wasn't applied like this woman wore it. She then proceeded to powder my face unbearably until I sneezed. Synonyms dust, cover with powder, dredge with powder, sprinkle with powder, talc 1.1 Sprinkle or cover (a surface) with powder or a powdery substance. 撒粉（状物）于（表面），以粉（状物）覆盖 broken glass powdered the floor 玻璃碎渣撒了一地。 figurative high cheekbones powdered with freckles 〈喻〉高高的颧骨上布满雀斑。 Example sentencesExamples The baby lay in front of her, powdered with plaster dust, and she pulled the child to her. The dance floor was freshly powdered for slippery Motown spins. 2Reduce (a substance) to a powder by drying or crushing it. 使（某物）成粉状 then the rose petals are dried and powdered 然后把玫瑰花瓣晒干，磨成粉。 Example sentencesExamples A delicious sweet version can be made by mixing the ground black sesame with honey or dry powdered pure sugar cane juice extract. It seemed to me like a palace floor, strewn with roses and powdered gold. On one of the drops, our team received a package containing powdered coffee and chocolate, a real treat. Using a bamboo whisk, thick tea is prepared by mixing powdered green tea with just enough water to produce the proper consistency. When powdered slate is mixed with limestone it makes a good cement. The grains of some finely powdered ingredients also have this property, including mustard powder - which is why, when making mayonnaise, mustard is added to the egg yolk before mixing in the oil. Sample was prepared by powdering the pills and passing through the mesh. In Trinidad, you can buy powdered coconut milk: and measurements in this post are based on this form of coconut milk. The Japanese drink powdered green tea, the bancha, in the form of an elaborate religious ceremony. Buy powdered garden lime and dust it over the entire yard, especially where your pet's house is. Shoe odour can be eliminated by sprinkling bicarbonate of soda or dry, powdered herbs, such as chamomile, in the shoes each evening. Don't use an airtight one, otherwise the humidity inside will dampen the dry powdered ingredients. Add whipped cream and powdered chocolate or vanilla to taste. You can even make your own natural insect repellent with a little liquid soap, powdered cayenne pepper, onion, garlic, and water mixed in a spray bottle. Crack cocaine is a much different substance than powdered cocaine. Other popular substances are powdered flowers and herbs or grains. The herbs are powdered, and then mixed into a paste made with ground fruits and nuts, nut butters, and honey. Mix 1,000 mg of each powdered herb into 1 ounce of ghee, a clarified butter, and use all of it as a cooking oil. Here the herb is powdered and pressed into gelatin capsules or pills. With sources of potable water impaired, powdered milk is unusable in these circumstances, leaving the drink box the only source of milk for children and pregnant women. Synonyms dried, freeze-dried, dehydrated crush, grind, pulverize, pound, mill, granulate Phrases keep one's powder dry Remain cautious and ready for a possible emergency. 保持警惕以应付可能的突发事件 Example sentencesExamples In the opening Bach, they kept their powder dry. Voters just kept their powder dry until someone viewed as credible came along. With two teams already declared as starters in Lismore, one of which is a Country Labor team, Richmond Valley candidates are so far keeping their powder dry as to possible allegiances. He plans to keep his powder dry for the flurry of deals likely to emerge in the sector. Even though his side have won three of their last four matches against the French, he is under no illusions: ‘They have been quietly keeping their powder dry.’ The feedback I'm getting from most sources around the traps is that they are spending a lot of effort on the sort of counter attack, and they're keeping their powder dry for the moment, letting National fire shots essentially into thin air. Nobody seems to know who the developers are - I suspect they are keeping their powder dry as they know what a prime site it is being 15 minutes from the airport and 10 minutes from Manchester. And what's all this about keeping your powder dry? They're keeping their powder dry for nominee number two. But shareholders were initially keeping their powder dry as they waited to see if the world's largest brewer would open up with a counter bid and raise the bidding stakes. take a powder informal Depart quickly, especially in order to avoid a difficult situation. 〈北美，非正式〉匆忙离去，逃跑（尤指逃避难堪局面） Example sentencesExamples It's anybody's guess as to whether he will be allowed to take a powder now that his hypocrisy, mismanagement, corruption, vanity, arrogance, and, yes, cruelty, to victims has been exposed. So your stock tanked and your pension plan took a powder. Pushed by their label to make their already completed record more radio-friendly, the band took a powder, built enormous fan interest by distributing the album online and released it on Nonesuch Records. He was the only one in the entire neighborhood that took a powder. And when the dame took a powder, it was even worse: ‘I stopped in a bar and had a couple double Scotches.’ But the way the bishops are going to learn this is by carrying their cross, not taking a powder when it gets hot. The nation's most prestigious newspaper takes a powder, retreating from the insistent voice - in which it advises the administration to provide world ‘leadership’ with its ‘power’ - to a pathetically passive tone.’ The police tend to think he just got fed up with the high-pressure lifestyle, and being caught between the two women in his life, and that he took a powder. To be priest is to carry the cross, not to take a powder. Cast your mind back to the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria: When an influenza outbreak ripped through the ranks of athletes, 25 were forced to take a powder. Synonyms go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight Origin Middle English: from Old French poudre, from Latin pulvis, pulver- ‘dust’. noun.1 phr.
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