mortar1
noun ˈmɔːtəˈmɔrdər
1A short smooth-bore gun for firing shells (technically called bombs) at high angles.
迫击炮mortars and machine gunsas modifier nine civilians died in a horrific mortar attack- Insurgents used grenades, machine guns and mortar shells in continuous volleys.
- As he bravely continued to move around the perimeter, a mortar shell exploded, wounding him in the face and body.
- The Tamil Tigers, who are seeking a homeland in the north and east of Sri Lanka, used rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and mortars in the attack, the spokesman said.
- The missile is deployed in a transport-launching canister from which it is launched through the mortar start technique.
- A car bomb and a mortar rip through a commercial area in central Baghdad.
- Near Baquba, insurgents coordinated a car bombing and a mortar attack on a police station.
- Israeli forces fired on the camp in response to a mortar bomb attack on a settlement.
- The Rev Alan Reeve went to preach in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, last month and was evacuated two weeks later following an attack of mortar bombs and machine gun fire.
- On Christmas Day, at least five Iraqis and two US soldiers were killed in car bomb explosions and mortar attacks.
- No explosives were found in the mortar shell and the bomb disposal unit said no-one in the local area was at risk.
- It was very much an artillery war and in the British army shells, mortars, and grenades accounted for 61 per cent of all wounds, with bayonet wounds accounting for only 0.3 per cent.
- The military said the attack was retaliation for a mortar shell fired toward an army post.
- The Dutch forces' camp in suburban Samawah was attacked on April 22, with one of the mortar shells landing inside the compound.
- A spokesman for the Polish-led forces reportedly said the insurgents used a car bomb, mortars and machine guns.
- Four Bulgarian and two Thai soldiers were killed and 37 coalition troops were injured after Iraq's increasingly well-organised resistance attacked, using mortars, machine guns and a car bomb.
- Some 4.5 million pieces, varying from anti - air-craft missiles to mortars and assault rifles, were available to civilians as old army depots were turned into free shopping zones.
- Last year a team of 20 divers scoured the seabed for shells, bombs and mortars up to ten metres deep; items were either brought up for disposal or blown up in situ if they looked unstable.
- Meanwhile, sources among Samawah security authorities reported an apparent mortar shell attack near the Dutch military camp in Samawah early Wednesday.
- The ammunition arrived today - 300 tonnes of shells, mortar bombs, grenades, machine gun rounds and bullets for the rifles.
- Howitzers and mortars are more effective because of their ability to engage targets on reverse slopes.
- 1.1 A device used for firing a lifeline or firework.（烟花或救生索的）发射器
- Rockets are more sophisticated devices than mortars.
2A cup-shaped receptacle in which ingredients are crushed or ground, used in cooking or pharmacy.
臼，研钵a pestle and mortar一套杵和臼。
- They can be ground easily in a mortar and pestle or in an electric spice or coffee grinder.
- Grind all the ingredients together in a spice grinder or with a mortar and pestle.
- ‘The trick is getting a proper amalgamation out of the garlic and ginger,’ says a marine, using a plastic mug and a stick as a mortar and pestle.
- Clean ocean sand was added to the mortars to facilitate crushing.
- Woodcarvers, all of whom are men, carve masks and figurines as well as mortars, pestles, and bowls.
- Remove and place in a mortar and pestle or food processor and crush.
- Wood carving, traditionally limited to the making of implements and utensils - bowls, mortars, pestles, and canoes - is now geared towards the tourist market.
- Some spices come as seeds, so that's when you get to break out your mortar and pestle and grind those seeds up to really bring the flavour out.
- With a mortar and pestle, crush the thyme, garlic, and peppercorns and place. in a large saucepan.
- For the black sesame filling: Using a mortar and pestle, pound the sesame seeds, sugar and cocoa butter into a paste.
- Freeze-dried leaves were ground into powder using a mortar and pestle and homogenized in homogenizing buffer.
- At each sampling date, approximately 1 g FW of a pooled sample of crown tissues from ten plants was ground to a fine powder with a pestle in a mortar containing liquid nitrogen.
- In a mortar, crush the cloves, cardamom pods and cinnamon.
- If you don't have a food processor, you may have to grind the paste by hand in a mortar and pestle (muhaha).
- Individual garnets were cut from selected samples, crushed in a mortar and pestle and sieved.
- In my wanderings around the hills I had found a mortar and pestle, a moccasin last and a canoe anchor, each fashioned from basalt.
- A mortar and pestle is best, or use a spice mill or food processor.
- In the mortar, crush 20 black peppercorns and some Maldon salt.
- Put the lemon thyme leaves in a pestle and mortar and crush with the salt and a good grinding of black pepper.
- Fittings include feeding cups, mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, bench balances, and glass measures.
dish, basin, pan, pot, crock, crucible
verb ˈmɔːtəˈmɔrdər
[with object]Attack or bombard with a mortar.
用迫击炮轰击the Commando positions were being heavily mortaredat first light the mortaring and sniping started- And these are the headquarters troops, who, the story notes, get mortared every night.
- No serious injuries were reported in this attack, nor in the next day's mortaring, which provoked a heavy-weapon Army counter-attack inside Najaf.
- ‘Everyone's watching it,’ says a Marine corporal at an outpost in Ramadi that is mortared by insurgents daily.
- He's at risk of getting mortared, and he has to move with the military in armored Humvees.
- Hopefully, I'll have some good stories when I return, since the people I'm going to visit have been mortared and ambushed several times, luckily without injury.
- Whether you're ambushed, mortared at your base camp or on patrol, that, ladies and gentlemen, is combat.
- The resistance can mortar a division headquarters without fear of discovery.
- Staff Sergeant Brian Flading, a 19D Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, remembers an incident when his platoon was mortared one night in Balad.
- American positions and patrols in Mosul are being regularly ambushed or mortared.
- Getting shot at, mortared, etc. does not give him the right to look down at his fellow soldiers.
- In a couple of minutes we're in an even poorer-looking neighborhood, bouncing slowly on a street that resembles a heavily mortared battlefield.
- The regimental camp was mortared twice and the soldiers were routinely required to round up insurgent suspects, occasionally under fire.
- The day before a local warlord had mortared the town, killing 25.
- In June 2004, the Post Exchange here was mortared, killing two Soldiers and wounding more than a dozen additional troops.
- On Sunday night, guerrillas mortared the Baghdad airport, killing a former Fijian soldier working for the British company Global Risk Strategies International.
- The Green Zone headquarters of the occupation in Baghdad was mortared Monday night, with reports of widespread guerilla activity in parts of the city.
- A military headquarters in Basra city was mortared on October 8, injuring three soldiers.
- The place had been mortared before, and our tent was sitting right here we could be seen from outside the wire.
- I have been shot at, mortared, lost friends, and cared for the wounded.
- Despite heavy shelling, mortaring and machine gun fire, within about an hour they made it off the beach.
Origin
Late Old English (in sense 2 of the noun), from Old French mortier, from Latin mortarium (to which the English spelling was later assimilated).
A Latin mortarium was the sort of mortar you use with a pestle to grind things. The gun got its name in the mid 16th century because its dumpy shape reminded people of a mortar. The mortar you use for bonding bricks is recorded from the mid-13th century and probably got its name from the same mortar, because the ingredients are ground up. See also piston
Rhymes
aorta, daughter, exhorter, exporter, extorter, Horta, importer, porter, quarter, slaughter, snorter, sorter, sporter, supporter, three-quarter, torte, transporter, underwater, water
mortar2
noun ˈmɔːtəˈmɔrdər
mass nounA mixture of lime with cement, sand, and water, used in building to bond bricks or stones.
（砌砖时用的）砂浆，灰浆- Separations between brick and mortar can allow air and water to leak through gaps in the wall.
- The buildings are all made of either sandstone blocks or mortar with heavy sand content.
- In addition to using the same granite, the original mortar was matched with Portland cement lime mortar.
- Throwing them aside, I soon uncovered a quantity of building stone and mortar.
- Scores of Chicago's mortar and brick factory buildings and warehouses squat within a shadow's reach of glistening skyscrapers.
- We were having some building work done and there was cement, sand and mortar lying around.
- A recycling operation takes concrete, brick, mortar and plaster from building sites and grinds them down into building soil to be sold.
- The focus today is on mundane businesses that produce, for the most part, bricks, mortar, and concrete.
- This summer the National Trust asked St Blaise Conservation, directed by Keith Garner, RIBA, to replace the cement with lime mortar.
- Mr Green suggests pointing these cracks with a putty lime mortar, pigmented to match the stones.
- By volume the mix is approximately half glass fiber and half cement mortar.
- The major components of construction, as we all know, are, cement, steel, timber, bricks, mortar, sand, etc.
- One popular type of edging is to use a low brick or rock wall, cemented together with mortar.
- The first step is to prepare the surface by applying a mixture of mortar, sand and molasses.
- Sometimes, a layer of mortar and brick or flagstone can be placed on top of an old slab, yielding a very attractive and properly sloped surface.
- Compared to brick and mortar, the pre-engineered buildings saved about $50,000 per building in labor costs.
- Weep holes are designed to drain out any water that seeps through the brick or mortar.
- The answer may be found in the preceding Pasuk, which says that the people decided to use bricks instead of stones and lime as mortar.
- If you draw your layout to the nominal size, you will actually be allowing for space between the stones, once laid, for sand infill or mortar.
- Grout is mortar to which water has been added until it is thin enough to pour.
verb ˈmɔːtəˈmɔrdər
[with object]Fix or join using mortar.
用砂浆砌合，用砂浆黏合the pipe can be mortared in place这管子可以用砂浆黏合到位。
- The gazebo wall is made of three rows of decorative concrete blocks mortared together.
- The rocks are carefully stacked and mortared with mud.
- Thus, the presence of the form makes those bricks and that mortar a house, as opposed, e.g., to a wall or an oven.
- The pavers can be set in dirt as with the rocks, or mortared to a poured concrete footing.
- Although steps must be mortared for safety, pavers and flagstones on level ground can be dry-laid in sand, which allows water and oxygen to reach tree roots below.
- It was built in local stone mortared with clay and roofed in clay mixed with straw.
- These are installed as the blocks are mortared into place.
- Like conventional bricks, adobes are laid in a running bond - an overlapping pattern - then mortared in place with adobe mud.
- The pavers, mortared together for stability, create a transition zone between inside and outside.
- He could start to feel where the stones separated and had been mortared in between.
- Everything from the carefully laid oak floors, the tightly mortared stone of the chimney, and the finely woven tapestries imported from around the globe had been specifically consigned for the Samson estate.
- In a few quick glances he absorbed the entire rolling farmland: green stonework mortared by tree windbreaks.
- Other mortared walls appear to have been built without any coping and are now suffering the results.
- It also looked as if one of them at least, the one closest to the church wall, was of someone important as the grave was built of carefully mortared stone slabs.
- In the darker recesses of the garage, covered until now by a pair of old MDF bookcases, we discovered a single, special brick mortared into the wall.
- After you are pleased with the results, you can mortar the stones into place on top of the liner as you would to install edging.
- Natural New Jersey sandstone walls, some dry-laid and others mortared, frame the plantings.
- The creek bed is formed with a pond liner and stones; some stones are mortared together to make smooth ledges.
- ‘Once the mixer is in place I can handle the whole process’ adds Scheer, ‘from the mixing and forming of the material to stacking and mortaring.’
- The Anglo-Saxon churches however were utilising rough stones for the bulk of their buildings, and these had to be lime mortared into position.
Derivatives
mortarless
- Arizona flagstone, laid with finger-tight mortarless joints, provides a base for the patio, which includes a built-in banquette and a continuously running water feature.
- A level, stable site is particularly important for mortarless projects.
- You can apply these principals of mortarless brickwork to anything from a small patio to a driveway - the scope of the project is up to you.
- Even for a novice do-it-yourselfer, installing a mortarless flagstone path is a practically foolproof project.
- The bricklaying process for a mortarless barbecue is much simpler than that of a brick barbecue with mortar.
adjective
Origin
Middle English: from Old French mortier, from Latin mortarium, probably a transferred sense of the word denoting a container (see mortar1).
mortar1
nounˈmôrdərˈmɔrdər
1A short smoothbore gun for firing shells (technically called bombs) at high angles.
迫击炮- Howitzers and mortars are more effective because of their ability to engage targets on reverse slopes.
- No explosives were found in the mortar shell and the bomb disposal unit said no-one in the local area was at risk.
- The missile is deployed in a transport-launching canister from which it is launched through the mortar start technique.
- The Dutch forces' camp in suburban Samawah was attacked on April 22, with one of the mortar shells landing inside the compound.
- It was very much an artillery war and in the British army shells, mortars, and grenades accounted for 61 per cent of all wounds, with bayonet wounds accounting for only 0.3 per cent.
- On Christmas Day, at least five Iraqis and two US soldiers were killed in car bomb explosions and mortar attacks.
- Some 4.5 million pieces, varying from anti - air-craft missiles to mortars and assault rifles, were available to civilians as old army depots were turned into free shopping zones.
- Insurgents used grenades, machine guns and mortar shells in continuous volleys.
- The military said the attack was retaliation for a mortar shell fired toward an army post.
- A car bomb and a mortar rip through a commercial area in central Baghdad.
- Meanwhile, sources among Samawah security authorities reported an apparent mortar shell attack near the Dutch military camp in Samawah early Wednesday.
- Four Bulgarian and two Thai soldiers were killed and 37 coalition troops were injured after Iraq's increasingly well-organised resistance attacked, using mortars, machine guns and a car bomb.
- Near Baquba, insurgents coordinated a car bombing and a mortar attack on a police station.
- The ammunition arrived today - 300 tonnes of shells, mortar bombs, grenades, machine gun rounds and bullets for the rifles.
- As he bravely continued to move around the perimeter, a mortar shell exploded, wounding him in the face and body.
- Last year a team of 20 divers scoured the seabed for shells, bombs and mortars up to ten metres deep; items were either brought up for disposal or blown up in situ if they looked unstable.
- A spokesman for the Polish-led forces reportedly said the insurgents used a car bomb, mortars and machine guns.
- The Rev Alan Reeve went to preach in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, last month and was evacuated two weeks later following an attack of mortar bombs and machine gun fire.
- The Tamil Tigers, who are seeking a homeland in the north and east of Sri Lanka, used rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and mortars in the attack, the spokesman said.
- Israeli forces fired on the camp in response to a mortar bomb attack on a settlement.
- 1.1 A device used for firing a lifeline or firework.（烟花或救生索的）发射器
- Rockets are more sophisticated devices than mortars.
2A cup-shaped receptacle made of hard material, in which ingredients are crushed or ground, used especially in cooking or pharmacy.
臼，研钵a mortar and pestle- Some spices come as seeds, so that's when you get to break out your mortar and pestle and grind those seeds up to really bring the flavour out.
- In the mortar, crush 20 black peppercorns and some Maldon salt.
- In a mortar, crush the cloves, cardamom pods and cinnamon.
- ‘The trick is getting a proper amalgamation out of the garlic and ginger,’ says a marine, using a plastic mug and a stick as a mortar and pestle.
- With a mortar and pestle, crush the thyme, garlic, and peppercorns and place. in a large saucepan.
- Woodcarvers, all of whom are men, carve masks and figurines as well as mortars, pestles, and bowls.
- For the black sesame filling: Using a mortar and pestle, pound the sesame seeds, sugar and cocoa butter into a paste.
- They can be ground easily in a mortar and pestle or in an electric spice or coffee grinder.
- Put the lemon thyme leaves in a pestle and mortar and crush with the salt and a good grinding of black pepper.
- Remove and place in a mortar and pestle or food processor and crush.
- A mortar and pestle is best, or use a spice mill or food processor.
- Individual garnets were cut from selected samples, crushed in a mortar and pestle and sieved.
- Wood carving, traditionally limited to the making of implements and utensils - bowls, mortars, pestles, and canoes - is now geared towards the tourist market.
- If you don't have a food processor, you may have to grind the paste by hand in a mortar and pestle (muhaha).
- In my wanderings around the hills I had found a mortar and pestle, a moccasin last and a canoe anchor, each fashioned from basalt.
- Grind all the ingredients together in a spice grinder or with a mortar and pestle.
- Freeze-dried leaves were ground into powder using a mortar and pestle and homogenized in homogenizing buffer.
- Fittings include feeding cups, mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, bench balances, and glass measures.
- At each sampling date, approximately 1 g FW of a pooled sample of crown tissues from ten plants was ground to a fine powder with a pestle in a mortar containing liquid nitrogen.
- Clean ocean sand was added to the mortars to facilitate crushing.
dish, basin, pan, pot, crock, crucible
verbˈmôrdərˈmɔrdər
[with object]Attack or bombard with shells fired from a mortar.
用迫击炮轰击- Despite heavy shelling, mortaring and machine gun fire, within about an hour they made it off the beach.
- A military headquarters in Basra city was mortared on October 8, injuring three soldiers.
- American positions and patrols in Mosul are being regularly ambushed or mortared.
- No serious injuries were reported in this attack, nor in the next day's mortaring, which provoked a heavy-weapon Army counter-attack inside Najaf.
- The resistance can mortar a division headquarters without fear of discovery.
- Whether you're ambushed, mortared at your base camp or on patrol, that, ladies and gentlemen, is combat.
- And these are the headquarters troops, who, the story notes, get mortared every night.
- The day before a local warlord had mortared the town, killing 25.
- On Sunday night, guerrillas mortared the Baghdad airport, killing a former Fijian soldier working for the British company Global Risk Strategies International.
- The regimental camp was mortared twice and the soldiers were routinely required to round up insurgent suspects, occasionally under fire.
- Hopefully, I'll have some good stories when I return, since the people I'm going to visit have been mortared and ambushed several times, luckily without injury.
- In June 2004, the Post Exchange here was mortared, killing two Soldiers and wounding more than a dozen additional troops.
- ‘Everyone's watching it,’ says a Marine corporal at an outpost in Ramadi that is mortared by insurgents daily.
- The place had been mortared before, and our tent was sitting right here we could be seen from outside the wire.
- Getting shot at, mortared, etc. does not give him the right to look down at his fellow soldiers.
- I have been shot at, mortared, lost friends, and cared for the wounded.
- He's at risk of getting mortared, and he has to move with the military in armored Humvees.
- The Green Zone headquarters of the occupation in Baghdad was mortared Monday night, with reports of widespread guerilla activity in parts of the city.
- Staff Sergeant Brian Flading, a 19D Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, remembers an incident when his platoon was mortared one night in Balad.
- In a couple of minutes we're in an even poorer-looking neighborhood, bouncing slowly on a street that resembles a heavily mortared battlefield.
Origin
Late Old English (in mortar (sense 2 of the noun)), from Old French mortier, from Latin mortarium (to which the English spelling was later assimilated).
mortar2
nounˈmôrdərˈmɔrdər
A mixture of lime with cement, sand, and water, used in building to bond bricks or stones.
（砌砖时用的）砂浆，灰浆- One popular type of edging is to use a low brick or rock wall, cemented together with mortar.
- Sometimes, a layer of mortar and brick or flagstone can be placed on top of an old slab, yielding a very attractive and properly sloped surface.
- The answer may be found in the preceding Pasuk, which says that the people decided to use bricks instead of stones and lime as mortar.
- By volume the mix is approximately half glass fiber and half cement mortar.
- Separations between brick and mortar can allow air and water to leak through gaps in the wall.
- Compared to brick and mortar, the pre-engineered buildings saved about $50,000 per building in labor costs.
- This summer the National Trust asked St Blaise Conservation, directed by Keith Garner, RIBA, to replace the cement with lime mortar.
- Scores of Chicago's mortar and brick factory buildings and warehouses squat within a shadow's reach of glistening skyscrapers.
- If you draw your layout to the nominal size, you will actually be allowing for space between the stones, once laid, for sand infill or mortar.
- Grout is mortar to which water has been added until it is thin enough to pour.
- The major components of construction, as we all know, are, cement, steel, timber, bricks, mortar, sand, etc.
- The first step is to prepare the surface by applying a mixture of mortar, sand and molasses.
- Mr Green suggests pointing these cracks with a putty lime mortar, pigmented to match the stones.
- The focus today is on mundane businesses that produce, for the most part, bricks, mortar, and concrete.
- In addition to using the same granite, the original mortar was matched with Portland cement lime mortar.
- Weep holes are designed to drain out any water that seeps through the brick or mortar.
- We were having some building work done and there was cement, sand and mortar lying around.
- The buildings are all made of either sandstone blocks or mortar with heavy sand content.
- A recycling operation takes concrete, brick, mortar and plaster from building sites and grinds them down into building soil to be sold.
- Throwing them aside, I soon uncovered a quantity of building stone and mortar.
verbˈmôrdərˈmɔrdər
[with object]Fix or join using mortar.
用砂浆砌合，用砂浆黏合the pipe can be mortared in place这管子可以用砂浆黏合到位。
- It was built in local stone mortared with clay and roofed in clay mixed with straw.
- The Anglo-Saxon churches however were utilising rough stones for the bulk of their buildings, and these had to be lime mortared into position.
- The gazebo wall is made of three rows of decorative concrete blocks mortared together.
- Like conventional bricks, adobes are laid in a running bond - an overlapping pattern - then mortared in place with adobe mud.
- He could start to feel where the stones separated and had been mortared in between.
- In a few quick glances he absorbed the entire rolling farmland: green stonework mortared by tree windbreaks.
- Thus, the presence of the form makes those bricks and that mortar a house, as opposed, e.g., to a wall or an oven.
- These are installed as the blocks are mortared into place.
- In the darker recesses of the garage, covered until now by a pair of old MDF bookcases, we discovered a single, special brick mortared into the wall.
- Everything from the carefully laid oak floors, the tightly mortared stone of the chimney, and the finely woven tapestries imported from around the globe had been specifically consigned for the Samson estate.
- The pavers can be set in dirt as with the rocks, or mortared to a poured concrete footing.
- Other mortared walls appear to have been built without any coping and are now suffering the results.
- ‘Once the mixer is in place I can handle the whole process’ adds Scheer, ‘from the mixing and forming of the material to stacking and mortaring.’
- The rocks are carefully stacked and mortared with mud.
- It also looked as if one of them at least, the one closest to the church wall, was of someone important as the grave was built of carefully mortared stone slabs.
- After you are pleased with the results, you can mortar the stones into place on top of the liner as you would to install edging.
- The pavers, mortared together for stability, create a transition zone between inside and outside.
- Although steps must be mortared for safety, pavers and flagstones on level ground can be dry-laid in sand, which allows water and oxygen to reach tree roots below.
- Natural New Jersey sandstone walls, some dry-laid and others mortared, frame the plantings.
- The creek bed is formed with a pond liner and stones; some stones are mortared together to make smooth ledges.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French mortier, from Latin mortarium, probably a transferred sense of the word denoting a container (see mortar).