Appliance
[ə'plaɪəns]
解释:
(noun.) durable goods for home or office use.
(noun.) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job.
录入:勒达--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience.
(n.) The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.
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同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Application, use, exercise, applying.[2]. Expedient, means, instrumentality, resource.
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同义词及反义词:
SYN:Contrivance, mechanism, arrangement, means, agency
ANT:Spontaneity, growth, production, evolution, development
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例句:
- While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Field, John Burry--and remains in extensive use as an appliance for which no substitute or competitor has been found. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Should you attach an appliance of heavier wattage to a light socket you will doubtless blow a fuse. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The attention to fashion, the tasteful appliance of ornament in each portion of her dress, were quite in place with her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- This appliance toasts bread evenly, rapidly, and costs very little to operate. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In their plays, they like to construct their own toys and appliances. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Among table appliances are toasters, coffee percolators, electric teapots, chafing dishes and numerous other articles that add to the convenience of preparing food. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The economic revolution has stimulated science by setting problems for solution, by producing greater intellectual respect for mechanical appliances. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- It is now possible, by means of electric appliances, practically to eliminate all drudgery from housework. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The eighteenth century, keenly curious and ceaselessly active in this fascinating field of investigation, had not, after all, left much of a legacy in either principles or appliances. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The building was wired from top to bottom, and equipped with all the appliances of the art. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- In heating appliances, steam and water heating systems, base burning and Latrobe stoves, hot air furnaces, gas and oil stoves. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- One thing most desirable in connection with practically all of the lamp-socket appliances described and illustrated in this section is the very small cost of operation. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- These are termed light-duty appliances, as they operate from the light socket. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- He must go to bed immediately, must have a regular nurse, and various appliances and precautions must be used, about which Lydgate was particular. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Dreary and solemn the old house looks, with so many appliances of habitation and with no inhabitants except the pictured forms upon the walls. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The principle in these appliances is the employment of two different metals which expand unequally, and thus maintain an uniformity of operation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- And even for the individual worker, the convenient appliances and helps that have been invented have greatly relieved the occupation of pain and drudgery. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- And it was this new model which caused the addressograph to take its place in the business world as one of the leading office appliances. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It was natural that in the first development of mechanical appliances they should be devoted to those pursuits in which men had the greatest practical interest. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
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