Deflect
[dɪ'flekt] or [dɪ'flɛkt]
解释:
(verb.) turn aside and away from an initial or intended course.
(verb.) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest.
海伦手打--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.
(v. i.) To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.
比利编辑
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Deviate, diverge, swerve, turn aside.
v. a. Bend, turn aside.
弗雷迪手打
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Turn, deviate, diverge, swerve, divert, recurve
ANT:Continue, proceed, straighten, unbend, prolong, produce
贾尔斯录入
解释:
v.i. or v.t. to turn aside: to swerve or deviate from a right line or proper course.—p.adj. Deflect′ed (bot.) bent abruptly downward.—ns. Deflec′tion Deflex′ion deviation.—adj. Deflec′tive causing deflection.—n. Deflec′tor a diaphragm in a lamp stove &c. by which the flame and gases are brought together and the combustion improved.—v.t. Deflex′ (zool. bot.) to bend down.—adj. Deflexed′.—n. Deflex′ure deviation.
格罗夫斯整理
例句:
- The feeblest imaginable current suffices to deflect the needle in one direction, which throws back the little beam of light upon it to the graduated front of the scale. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- These magnets deflect the fall of the particles rich in iron (which are attracted), while the non-magnetic particles of sand drop straight down. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Thus, if the two extreme needles were deflected inwards, one towards the left and the other towards the right, they would point to the letter _A_ at the top of the rhomb. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The panic of 1837 closed the mills, and Howe found his course deflected to work in a machine-shop in Cambridge. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- A warm ocean current like the Gulf Stream may be deflected, and flow so as to warm one side of the barrier, leaving the other still cold. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- One of the magnetic needles acted as a detent which held a weight suspended, and when the needle was deflected, the weight fell upon a bell. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- In 1819 he had announced that the plane of po lari zed light--for example, a ray passed through Iceland spar--is deflected to right or left by various chem ical substances. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- When any of the needles was deflected by sending an electric current through the surrounding coil, the screen was withdrawn and exposed the letter behind. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- A thin knife-edge partition board, arranged below the falling sheets of sand, separates the deflected magnetic particles from the straight-falling sand. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The strip, A, is first put under a slight pressure, deflecting the needle a few degrees from zero. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Schweigger of Halle discovered that this deflecting force was increased when the wire was wound several times round the needle, and thus he invented the magnetising helix. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Something has come between which deflects concern to side issues. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- His bias deflects their actions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
整理:罗伯塔