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词汇 microbe
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Definition of microbe in English:

microbe

noun ˈmʌɪkrəʊbˈmaɪˌkroʊb
  • A microorganism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation.

    微生物(尤指引起疾病或发酵的细菌)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Complex sugars coat almost every cell in the body, as well as microbes that cause disease.
    • Bacteria and microbes in the soil and in the waste itself do a spectacular job of breaking down the waste.
    • Pasteur was convinced that microbes caused diseases in humans but his work on cholera had failed.
    • They will tend to wipe out the entire population, which, unfortunately from the point of the microbe causing the disease, wipes the microbe out as well.
    • You have to have the microbe, the bacteria get into you somehow, either through the skin, through the stomach or breathe it in through the air.
    • Initially identified with herpes, the microbe is now thought to cause various malignant tumors as well as a form of lymphoma.
    • E. coli is similar in size to the Legionnella pneumophila bacterium and so acted as a model microbe for their proof of principle experiments.
    • The approach starts with a weakened version of a microbe called an adenovirus.
    • I tried to explain about microbes, viruses, but my heart wasn't really in it.
    • The microbe is unusual in that most other bacteria in the same family are harmless to humans.
    • When a worm dines on one of these microbial strains, the microbe's RNA is freed to turn off the corresponding worm gene.
    • Theirs was the first report showing that a host nutritional deficiency could turn a harmless microbe into a pathogen.
    • A virus is a parasite, which needs a host cell to live in, and a microbe is a bacterium, which is a living cell in its own right.
    • This method uses gene-altered microbes to rid the mouth of the bacteria that cause cavities.
    • Then there was the popular microbe theory, wherein a living microbe or bacillus caused baldness.
    • Once the bacterium is within the macrophage, the macrophage's bactericidal mechanisms destroy the microbe.
    • Clearly the disease microbes brought over by the Europeans had already done a lot of their work.
    • These resistant microbes may include bacteria that were present from the start.
    • The T-cell system develops early in life and the only way it can develop is to be exposed to bacteria and other microbes.
    • In this sense, Pasteur believed that microbes could spread diseases among humans.
    Synonyms
    microorganism, bacillus, bacterium, virus, germ
    informal bug

Derivatives

  • microbic

  • adjective mʌɪˈkrəʊbɪk
    • Analysis of pathogenic microbic factors involved in the breeding disorder in the early pregnancy of cattle.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The microbic sorbent is organized in granules, which are steady in water solutions for a long time.
      • Perhaps the intelligence of Newton, who generalized Galileo's work to get solutions of many problems, will find its analog in the microbic development of the genome, which seems to guide the way most organisms evolve.
      • There is also fairly strong evidence that the first Viking landers of the 1970's did find some firm evidence of microbic life on the Red Planet.
      • The microbic ecology lab studies, for example, the use of some bacteria to decontaminate polluted soils.

Origin

Late 19th century: from French, from Greek mikros 'small' + bios 'life'.

  • Microbe is from French based on the Greek elements mikros ‘small’ and bios ‘life’. The word was coined by C. Sédillot in March 1878.

Definition of microbe in US English:

microbe

nounˈmaɪˌkroʊbˈmīˌkrōb
  • A microorganism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation.

    微生物(尤指引起疾病或发酵的细菌)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Pasteur was convinced that microbes caused diseases in humans but his work on cholera had failed.
    • You have to have the microbe, the bacteria get into you somehow, either through the skin, through the stomach or breathe it in through the air.
    • The T-cell system develops early in life and the only way it can develop is to be exposed to bacteria and other microbes.
    • These resistant microbes may include bacteria that were present from the start.
    • The microbe is unusual in that most other bacteria in the same family are harmless to humans.
    • Bacteria and microbes in the soil and in the waste itself do a spectacular job of breaking down the waste.
    • When a worm dines on one of these microbial strains, the microbe's RNA is freed to turn off the corresponding worm gene.
    • E. coli is similar in size to the Legionnella pneumophila bacterium and so acted as a model microbe for their proof of principle experiments.
    • Clearly the disease microbes brought over by the Europeans had already done a lot of their work.
    • Then there was the popular microbe theory, wherein a living microbe or bacillus caused baldness.
    • They will tend to wipe out the entire population, which, unfortunately from the point of the microbe causing the disease, wipes the microbe out as well.
    • Complex sugars coat almost every cell in the body, as well as microbes that cause disease.
    • In this sense, Pasteur believed that microbes could spread diseases among humans.
    • I tried to explain about microbes, viruses, but my heart wasn't really in it.
    • Theirs was the first report showing that a host nutritional deficiency could turn a harmless microbe into a pathogen.
    • Initially identified with herpes, the microbe is now thought to cause various malignant tumors as well as a form of lymphoma.
    • The approach starts with a weakened version of a microbe called an adenovirus.
    • This method uses gene-altered microbes to rid the mouth of the bacteria that cause cavities.
    • A virus is a parasite, which needs a host cell to live in, and a microbe is a bacterium, which is a living cell in its own right.
    • Once the bacterium is within the macrophage, the macrophage's bactericidal mechanisms destroy the microbe.
    Synonyms
    microorganism, bacillus, bacterium, virus, germ

Origin

Late 19th century: from French, from Greek mikros ‘small’ + bios ‘life’.

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