English Dictionary

velvet

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈvɛlvɪt/

動詞

比喩的用法 他動詞 所有格

To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture. / (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying. / To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.

日本語の意味

ベルベットや似た質感の覆いで覆う、または装飾する / (料理) 生肉にでんぷんをまぶし、その後油を施して揚げる準備をする / 鹿の角からビロード（柔らかい毛状の被毛）を取り除く

She asked him to velvet the antique chair with a rich, deep fabric to match the curtains.

彼女は彼に、カーテンに合うように深い色のビロード生地でアンティークの椅子を覆うよう頼んだ。

意味（1）

To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.

Penmachno mill is situate where a stream has furrowed a deep channel, and velveted the rocks with the richest mosses […] .

意味（2）

(cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.

Blanching cut and specially marinated chicken in oil or water prior to stir-frying is a technique common to Chinese restaurant kitchens. The 20-second bath tenderizes the chicken remarkably, hence the process has been dubbed velveting in English. Velveted chicken is half-cooked, will not stick to the pan, and needs almost no oil when stir-fried.

意味（3）

To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.

Reacting to painkillers when velveted, Sovereign II was too sick to grow antlers last year, but has since recovered.

意味（4）

(figuratively, transitive) To soften; to mitigate.

She spoke very gently, full of compassion for the boy, velveting her reproach for me.

意味（5）

(of a cat's claws) to retract.

velvets （ present singular third-person ）

velveting （ participle present ）

velveted （ participle past ）

velveted （ past ）