Relay

['riːleɪ] or [rɪ'lɛi]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the act of passing something along from one person or group to another; 'the relay was successful'.

(noun.) electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit.

(noun.) a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance.

(noun.) a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals.

(noun.) a crew of workers who relieve another crew.

(verb.) pass along; 'Please relay the news to the villagers'.

(verb.) control or operate by relay.

編輯:卡蒂--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

(n.) A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.

(n.) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay.

(n.) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way.

(n.) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.

(n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing.

阿琳整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Reinforcement, recruitment, refreshment, supply, relief

ANT:Exhaustion, consumption

整理:梅尔巴

解釋/意思:

v.t. to lay again as a pavement.

n. a supply of horses &c. to relieve others on a journey: a fresh set of dogs in hunting: a shift of men: a supplementary store of anything: (electr.) an apparatus by which the current of the receiving telegraphic station is strengthened.

編輯:桑德拉