catalyse
verb /ˈkætəlaɪz/
/ˈkætəlaɪz/
(British English) (North American English catalyze)
(chemistry动词形式
present simple I / you / we / they catalyse | /ˈkætəlaɪz/ /ˈkætəlaɪz/ |
he / she / it catalyses | /ˈkætəlaɪzɪz/ /ˈkætəlaɪzɪz/ |
past simple catalysed | /ˈkætəlaɪzd/ /ˈkætəlaɪzd/ |
past participle catalysed | /ˈkætəlaɪzd/ /ˈkætəlaɪzd/ |
-ing form catalysing | /ˈkætəlaɪzɪŋ/ /ˈkætəlaɪzɪŋ/ |
- catalyse something to make a chemical reaction happen faster
Topics Physics and chemistryc2催化 Collocations DictionaryCatalyse/catalyze is used with these nouns as the object:- reaction
词源late 19th cent.: from catalysis ‘the acceleration of a chemical reaction by a catalyst’, on the pattern of analyse.