Clearance
['klɪər(ə)ns] or ['klɪrəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) permission to proceed; 'the plane was given clearance to land'.
(noun.) the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them.
整理:纳撒尼尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.
(n.) A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.
(n.) Clear or net profit.
(n.) The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages.
整理:卢修斯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Discharge, release, exoneration, acquittal.[2]. (Com.) Permission to leave port, permission to sail.
昌西整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Prudence recommended henceforward a swift clearance of my person from the place, the moment that guilty old book was brought out. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Ground clearance, 18 inches. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Now that they were swept away it became apparent how unprepared men were for the creative opportunities this clearance gave them. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This almost overturns the trooper afresh, but he sets himself up with a great, rough, sounding clearance of his throat. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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