mosaic

名词 mosaic:

1. art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
2. viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves
3. a freeware browser
4. a pattern resembling a mosaic
5. transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube
6. assembly of aerial photographs forming a composite picture

形容词 mosaic:

1. of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him
2. decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together
   同义词：tessellated

1. The sky this morning was a mosaic of blue and white.
   今天早上的天空是幅蓝白相间的画面。
2. Mosaic a design on a rosewood box.
   将一个图案嵌入红木盒子上
3. It's a rich mosaic of meadows, rivers and woods.
   这是一幅由草地，河流，树木组成的五光十色的镶嵌画。

mo.sa.ic

n.（名词）

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.
马赛克：图画或装饰性的设计，通过把小的有色彩的石块或瓦块嵌入一个表面制成
The process or art of making such pictures or designs.
镶嵌工艺：制造这种图画或图案的过程或艺术
A composite picture made of overlapping, usually aerial, photographs.
组合图画：由重叠的，通常由航空照相制成的组合图画
Something that resembles a mosaic:
综合物：马赛克般的东西：
例句：
a mosaic of testimony from various witnesses.
从不同证人中得来的综合证词

Botany A virus disease of plants, resulting in light and dark areas in the leaves, which often become shriveled and dwarfed.
【植物学】 花叶病：植物的病毒性疾病，在叶子上形成轻度黑区，通常使叶子变得枯萎和发育不良
A photosensitive surface, as in the iconoscope of a television camera.
感光面： 一种感光面，如电子照像机中的光电摄影管上的感光面
Biology An individual exhibiting mosaicism.
【生物学】 嵌合体：一种个体的展示性镶嵌现象
v.tr.（及物动词）
mo.sa.icked,mo.sa.ick.ing,mo.sa.ics
To make by mosaic:
镶嵌：由镶嵌构成：
例句：
mosaic a design on a rosewood box.
将一个图案嵌入红木盒子上

To adorn with or as if with mosaic:
用马赛克装饰：用马赛克或似马赛克般的东西装饰：
例句：
mosaic a sidewalk.
用马赛克装饰花梨木制箱子

来源：
Middle English musycke
中古英语 musycke
from Old French mosaique
源自 古法语 mosaique
from Old Italian mosaico
源自 古意大利语 mosaico
from Medieval Latin môs3icum [neuter of] môs3icus [of the Muses]
源自 中世纪拉丁语 môs3icum [] môs3icus的中性 [缪斯的]
from Latin Môsa [Muse]
源自 拉丁语 Môsa [缪斯]
from Greek Mousa * see men-
源自 希腊语 Mousa *参见 men-

【引伸】
mosa.icist