[N-COUNT 可数名词](医用)拭子,棉签,药签 A swab is a small piece of cotton wool used by a doctor or nurse for cleaning a wound or putting a substance on it.
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[VERB 动词](用拖把、抹布等)擦洗,擦拭 If you swab something, you clean it using a wet cloth or a tool called a mop.
[V n]
I noticed a lone man in the cafeteria swabbing the floor as I passed.
我路过时注意到一个男子独自在自助餐厅里拖地。
Oxford
swab/swɒb; NAmEswɑːb/
noun
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verb
swabswabsswabbedswabbingnoun1a piece of soft material used by a doctor, nurse, etc. for cleaning wounds or taking a sample from sb's body for testing (医用的)拭子,药签2an act of taking a sample from sb's body, with a swab用拭子对(人体)化验标本的采集◆to take a throat swab用棉签从咽部采集化验样品verb(-bb-)1swabsth to clean or remove liquid from a wound, etc, using a swab用拭子擦拭2swabsth (down) to clean or wash a floor, surface, etc. using water and a cloth, etc. 擦洗,擦拭(地板等)swab/swɒb; NAmEswɑːb/
LDC
swab1 noun
swab2 verb
swabswab1 /swɒb $ swɑːb/ noun [countable]
Word Origin
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word sets
1a small piece of material used to clean a wound or take a small amount of a substance from someone’s body in order to test it: a cotton swab2a small amount of a substance that is taken from someone’s body with a swab in order to test it: The doctor took a throat swab to check for infection.
swab1 noun
swab2 verb
swabswab2 verb (past tense and past participle swabbed, present participle swabbing) [transitive]
Verb Table
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1 (also swab something ↔ down) to clean something using a large amount of water: a girl who was swabbing the tiled floor with a mop2to clean a wound with a small piece of special material
WDF
swab
[swɒb]swabbed, swabbing, swabs
n18793
543
92
84
158
68
141
v20181
419
52
170
96
56
45
NOUN15909
21406
VERB25482
7166
Spoken:
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swabbed[330] swabs[617]
医用海绵(45%),擦净(33%),以棉花棒涂敷于(22%)
n.药签,[外科] 拭子;医用海绵,纱布;拖把,擦帚;无赖
vt.打扫,擦拭;涂抹(药)于
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