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单词 lime
释义

lime

See also: limé, līme, and łime

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laɪm/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪm

Etymology 1

From Middle English lyme, lym, lime, from Old English līm, from Proto-Germanic *līmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Liem (“glue”), Dutch lijm, German Leim (“glue”), Danish lim (from Old Norse lím), Latin limus (“mud”).

Noun

lime (countable and uncountable, plural limes)

  1. (chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).
    • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 149.
      Lime, which is the product of the burning of chalk or limestone, might be bought ready burnt, or it could be burnt in kilns specially constructed in the neighbourhood of the building operations.
  2. (poetic) Any gluey or adhesive substance; something which traps or captures someone; sometimes a synonym for birdlime.
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
      Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest.
    • 1835, William Wordsworth, They called Thee Merry England, in old time [first line of unnamed poem]
      Like the lime which foolish birds are caught with.
  3. (theater) A spotlight.
    • 1980, Peter Evans, Peter Sellers: The Mask Behind the Mask (page 30)
      Sellers moved on until he was actually trusted to operate the limes, the spotlights that can make or destroy an artist's act.
    • 2018, Robert Charles Hines, Twists and Turns: 13 Tales of the Uneasy (page 121)
      Then out of the blue, a spotlight much like the “limes” in a theatre, lit up what seemed like a Punch and Judy tent […] He struggled even more, when from out of the shadows and into the bright light of the limes, stepped Uncle Jolly.
Derived terms
terms derived from lime (noun) alkali substance
  • chloride of lime
  • delime
  • Limedale
  • limekiln
  • limelight
  • limelighter
  • limescale
  • limestone
  • limewater
  • limeworking
  • quicklime
  • slaked lime
  • soda lime
  • unslaked lime
  • white lime
Translations
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See also
Entries of interest
  • asbestos
  • calcareous
  • calcify
  • calcine
  • calcium
  • calcium hydroxide
  • calcspar
  • calc-tufa
  • calculus
  • calx
  • chalk

Verb

lime (third-person singular simple present limes, present participle liming, simple past and past participle limed)

  1. (transitive) To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).
    • 1917, Rudyard Kipling, The Land
      If I were you, I'd lime.
  2. (transitive) To smear with birdlime.
    1. (rare) To ensnare, catch, entrap.
      • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
        URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
        HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by hap<brSome Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
      • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 39:
        Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.
  3. (transitive) To apply limewash.
Translations

Etymology 2

Avenue of limes (Tilia) in Prague.

Lime (17th c.) and line (16th c.) are alterations of obsolete lind, from Middle English lynde, from Old English lind, from Proto-Germanic *lindijō. The phonetic development is unusual, but it has been suggested that it began in compounds (loss of -d- perhaps before tree, the change to -m- before labials as in bark or wood). Doublet of linden, which see.

Noun

lime (countable and uncountable, plural limes)

  1. A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree.
    • 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 948783829, book I, page 38:
      But there was nothing of an ascetic's expression in her bright full eyes, as she looked before her, not consciously seeing, but absorbing into the intensity of her mood, the solemn glory of the afternoon with its long swathes of light between the far-off rows of limes, whose shadows touched each other.
  2. The wood of this tree.
Usage notes

Both this and the citrus are trees with fragrant flowers, but this is more temperate and the citrus is more tropical and subtropical. Outside of Europe and adjoining parts of Asia, the citrus sense is much more common

Derived terms
  • American lime (Tilia americana)
  • broad-leaved lime (Tilia platyphyllos)
  • brooklime (Veronica spp.)
  • lime tree looper (Erannis tiliaria)
  • silver lime (Tilia tomentosa)
  • linden
Translations
linden tree — see linden

Etymology 3

A lime.

From French lime, from Spanish lima, from Arabic لِيمَة‎ (līma), from Persian لیمو‎ (līmū). Doublet of lemon.

Noun

lime (countable and uncountable, plural limes)

  1. Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
  2. Any of the trees that bear limes, especially Key lime, Citrus aurantiifolia.
  3. (uncountable) A brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colour associated with the fruits of a lime tree.
    lime:  
    web lime:  
  4. (fandom slang) A fan fiction story which contains sexual references, but stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity (coined by analogy with lemon).
    • 1998 June 8, Gary Kleppe, “[Ranma][Fanfic] Tangled Web”, in rec.arts.anime.creative, Usenet‎:
      WARNING: This is a lime. While it does not show explicit sex, as a lemon would, references to sexual situations abound.
    • 1998 December 29, jiml...@earthlink.net, “[EVA][FanFic][Lemon] Garden of EVA 0:6x - Wet Dreams Bite!”, in rec.arts.anime.creative, Usenet‎:
      Even with all the sex in Garden of EVA, I still think the main stories are better for just being the lemon-scented limes that they are.
    • 2001 November 27, Schemer, “[Ranma/SF][FanFic] A Learning Experience - Chapter 01”, in rec.arts.anime.creative, Usenet‎:
      I have no intention of writing any lemon scenes, limes are possibilities but unlikely and if they occur they will be few in number.
Usage notes

Both this and the linden are trees with fragrant flowers, but the linden is more temperate and this is more tropical and subtropical. Outside of Europe and adjoining parts of Asia, this sense is much more common.

Hypernyms
  • fruit
    • citrus
Derived terms
terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
  • Australian desert-lime (Citrus glauca
  • Australian finger-lime (Citrus australasica
  • Australian lime (Citrus glauca, C. australasica, C. australis)
  • caviar lime (Citrus australasica)
  • desert lime (Citrus glauca)
  • finger lime (Citrus australasica)
  • Indian sweet lime
  • kaffir lime (Citrus hystrix)
  • Key lime (Citrus × aurantifolia)
  • Key lime pie
  • lemon and lime
  • lemon lime
  • limeade
  • lime-green
  • lime juice
  • limequat (Citrus × floridana)
  • limey
  • Mandarin lime (Citrus limonia)
  • musk lime (Citrus × microcarpa, syn. ×Citrofortunella mitis)
  • Palestinian sweet lime
  • Persian lime (Citrus × latifolia)
  • Rangpur lime (Citrus limonia)
  • Spanish lime (Melicoccus bijugatus)
  • sweet lime (Citrus limettioides)
  • Tahiti lime (Citrus latifolia)
  • Thai lime (Citrus hystrix)
  • wild lime (Adelia ricinella, (Zanthoxylum fagara)
Translations
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See also
terms of interest for lime (noun) fruit and color
  • fur up
  • gimlet
  • lemon
  • plaster
  • sour
  • Appendix:Colors
Colors in English · colors, colours (layout · text)
     white     gray, grey     black
             red; crimson             orange; brown             yellow; cream
             lime, lime green             green             mint
             cyan; teal             azure, sky blue             blue
             violet; indigo             magenta; purple             pink

Adjective

lime (not comparable)

  1. Containing lime or lime juice.
  2. Having the aroma or flavor of lime.
  3. Lime-green.
Translations

Etymology 4

Back-formation from limer.

Verb

lime (third-person singular simple present limes, present participle liming, simple past and past participle limed)

  1. (Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago) To hang out/socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.

Noun

lime (plural limes)

  1. Alternative form of lyam (a leash)
Derived terms
  • limehound

Anagrams

  • Elim, Elmi, Emil, Imel, Lemi, Liem, Meli, elim, mile

Danish

Etymology 1

From English lime.

Noun

lime c (singular definite limen, plural indefinite lime or limes)

  1. lime (fruit)
Inflection
Declension of lime
common
gender		SingularPlural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativelimelimenlime
limes		limene
genitivelimeslimenslimes
limes'		limenes

Etymology 2

From the noun lim (“glue”).

Verb

lime (imperative lim, infinitive at lime, present tense limer, past tense limede, perfect tense har limet)

  1. to glue

Fataluku

Numeral

lime

  1. five

Finnish

Etymology

From English lime.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlime/, [ˈlime̞]
  • IPA(key): /ˈlɑi̯m/, [ˈlɑi̯m]
  • Rhymes: -ime
  • Syllabification(key): li‧me

Noun

lime

  1. (proscribed) lime (citrus tree and its fruit)
    Synonym: limetti
  2. lime or lemon juice as part of a cocktail

Declension

Inflection of lime (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominativelimelimet
genitivelimenlimejen
partitivelimeälimejä
illativelimeenlimeihin
singularplural
nominativelimelimet
accusativenom.limelimet
gen.limen
genitivelimenlimejen
limeinrare
partitivelimeälimejä
inessivelimessälimeissä
elativelimestälimeistä
illativelimeenlimeihin
adessivelimellälimeillä
ablativelimeltälimeiltä
allativelimellelimeille
essivelimenälimeinä
translativelimeksilimeiksi
instructive—limein
abessivelimettälimeittä
comitative—limeineen
Possessive forms of lime (type nalle)
possessorsingularplural
1st personlimenilimemme
2nd personlimesilimenne
3rd personlimensä

Anagrams

  • Lemi, ilme, miel.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lim/
  • audio (une lime)(file)
  • Rhymes: -im

Etymology 1

From Latin līma.

Noun

lime f (plural limes)

  1. file (tool)
Derived terms
  • lime à ongles
  • limer

Etymology 2

From Spanish lima, from Arabic لِيمَة‎ (līma).

Noun

lime f (plural limes)

  1. lime (fruit, tree)
    Synonym: limette

Further reading

  • “lime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • miel, mile

Galician

Verb

lime

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of limar

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈli.me/
  • Rhymes: -ime
  • Hyphenation: lì‧me

Noun

lime f pl

  1. plural of lima

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lime.

Noun

lime m (invariable)

  1. lime (citrus tree)

Anagrams

  • elmi, meli

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaɪm/
  • Hyphenation: lime

Noun

lime (plural: lime dem or limes dem, quantified: lime)

  1. lime (small green citrus fruit)
    It sour like lime. ― It's as sour as a lime.
    When the virus get drastic, mi a guh draw fi mi garlic and lime.
    When the virus gets worse, I'm going to start taking garlic and lime.
  2. hangout, get-together (social gathering)

Verb

lime

  1. hang out
  2. dawdle, idle

Further reading

  • Richard Allsopp, editor, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 1996 (2003 printing), →ISBN, page 348

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.me/, [ˈlʲiːmɛ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.me/, [ˈliːme]

Noun

līme

  1. vocative singular of līmus

Middle English

Noun

lime

  1. Alternative form of lym (“quicklime”)

Noun

lime

  1. Alternative form of lyme (“limb”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Persian لیمو‎ (līmū), via Arabic لِيمَة‎ (līma), Spanish lima, and English lime.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laɪm/

Noun

lime m (definite singular limen, indefinite plural limer, definite plural limene)

  1. a lime (citrus fruit)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse líma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liːmə/

Verb

lime (imperative lim, present tense limer, passive limes, simple past lima or limet or limte, past participle lima or limet or limt, present participle limende)

  1. to glue or paste (something)
  • lim (noun)

References

  • “lime” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse líma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²liːmə/

Verb

lime (present tense limer, past tense limde/limte, past participle limt, passive infinitive limast, present participle limande, imperative lim)

  1. (transitive) to glue
Alternative forms
  • lima (a-infinitive)
Derived terms
  • liming f
  • lim n

Etymology 2

ein oppskoren lime

Borrowed from English lime. From Persian لیمو‎ (līmū), via Arabic لِيمَة‎ (līma).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑɪ̯m/

Noun

lime m (definite singular limen, indefinite plural limar, definite plural limane)

  1. (citrus fruit) a lime
  2. (usually uncountable) lime juice
Synonyms
  • (citrus fruit): limett
Derived terms
  • limejuice

Etymology 3

ein sopelime

From Old Norse lími.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²liːmə/

Noun

lime m (definite singular limen, indefinite plural limar, definite plural limane)

  1. a besom, broom
Derived terms
  • sopelime m

References

  • “lime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • meil, mile

Portuguese

Verb

lime

  1. inflection of limar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlime/ [ˈli.me]
  • Rhymes: -ime
  • Syllabification: li‧me

Verb

lime

  1. inflection of limar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • miel

Yakan

Numeral

lime

  1. five
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