surface
noun/ˈsɜːfɪs/[ˈsɜːfɪs]- 1.
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bề mặt, mặt
The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
- A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
- Use the lowest light level required. Be mindful of surface conditions, as some surfaces may reflect more light into the night sky than was intended.
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bề mặt
The outside hull of a tangible object.
ℹ Trong tiếng Việt, 'bề mặt' là danh từ trừu tượng chỉ phần diện tích ngoài cùng, nên không cần dùng thêm loại từ phía trước.
- Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
- [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.
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bề ngoài
Outward or external appearance.
ℹ Từ 'bề ngoài' thường được dùng để chỉ sự đối lập giữa cái người ta thấy và sự thật bên trong.
- On the surface, the spy looked like a typical businessman.
- Such characters as have nothing but external accompliſhments to recommend them, may indeed be greatly admired and approved by vain and weak underſtandings, which penetrate no deeper than the ſurface; but they are deſpiſed by all the truly ſenſible, and pitied by all the truly good.
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mặt
The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a space of more than two dimensions.
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bề mặt
The story or image suggested by a cryptic clue, when read as a whole sentence without considering wordplay.
⚠ Từ 'bề mặt' cũng được dùng cho nghĩa 'bề ngoài của vật thể', tuy nhiên trong ngữ cảnh giải đố, nó mang tính chất thuật ngữ chỉ nội dung câu chữ thay vì đặc điểm vật lý.
ℹ Trong ngữ cảnh giải đố, từ này được dùng như một thuật ngữ chuyên môn để chỉ phần nghĩa bề nổi của câu đố.
- The surface is clearly about people like you and me, those whose better days are behind us and who now shop at M&S.
- If you are fooled by the surface you start thinking about internet browsers. But in this case it deviously refers to an animal that feeds by browsing, which is a longer standing use of the word.