múi

Thân thiện

Mẹ tách một múi cam cho em bé.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • Segment / Section: A natural, separate section of certain fruits, typically citrus fruits like oranges, mandarins, or pomelos, enclosed by its own membrane.
   • Knot: A knot tied in a narrow band of material, such as cloth, silk, or rope.

2. Noun (specialized contexts):

   • Zone / Band: Used in compound terms to denote a designated zone or band, such as a time zone (múi giờ) or a geological zone.
   • Spherical Lune: In geometry, a section of a sphere.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Segment):

  • Cam này có rất nhiều múi. (This orange has many segments.)
  • Bóc từng múi bưởi ra ăn. (Peel the pomelo and eat it segment by segment.)

• Noun (Knot):

  • Cô ấy thắt một múi trên dải ruy-băng. (She tied a knot in the ribbon.)
  • Múi dây này rất chắc. (This knot in the rope is very tight.)

Advanced Usage

• "múi giờ": time zone.

  • Việt Nam thuộc múi giờ Đông Dương (GMT+7). (Vietnam is in the Indochina Time Zone (GMT+7).)

• "múi cầu" (spherical lune): In geometry, a section of a sphere bounded by two great semicircles.

  • Bài toán yêu cầu tính diện tích của múi cầu. (The problem requires calculating the area of a spherical lune.)

Variants and Related Words

• Múi mít (n): A single, fleshy pod (aril) containing a seed within a jackfruit.
  • Mít thái thường có múi nhỏ và ít xơ. (Thai jackfruit usually has small pods and less fiber.)

Synonyms

• Segment: section, division, piece (of fruit).
• Knot: tie, hitch.

Related Idioms

• Chia múi, xẻ phần: To divide shares or spoils (literally: to divide segments, to split parts). This idiom uses the imagery of dividing fruit segments to mean dividing benefits.
  • Sau khi thành công, họ bắt đầu chia múi, xẻ phần. (After the success, they began dividing the spoils.)

Học thuật

1. Knot (of a narrow band of cloth or silk)
2. Segment, section (of a fruit like orange)
   • Bóc quả cam tách ra từng múi
     To peel an orange and separate its pulp into segments