Stopper
['stɒpə] or ['stɑpɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit; 'if my partner has a spade stopper I can bid no trump'.
(verb.) close or secure with or as if with a stopper; 'She stoppered the wine bottle'; 'The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers'.
阿曼达錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.
(n.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.
(n.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia.
(v. t.) To close or secure with a stopper.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Stopple, plug.
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例句/造句/用法:
- He put the round head of his cane in his mouth, like a stopper, when he sat down. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I discovered the bottle, carefully guarded by a glass stopper tied over with leather. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Close the mouth of the tube with a one-hole rubber stopper in which is fitted a long, narrow tube, and clamp the test tube to an iron support, as shown in Figure 22. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- At No. 4 liquid air imprisoned in a tube and tightly corked up, blows the stopper out in a few minutes with explosive effect. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- At the inner hall-door, another bottle seemed to be presented and another stopper taken out. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- If the glass stopper is removed and the air is allowed to reenter the flask, the loudness of the sound immediately increases. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- A sallow flabbiness was upon him when he took the stopper out, and presented the bottle to Mr Clennam's nose. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- If a stopper is left off a cologne bottle, the contents of the bottle will slowly evaporate; if a dish of water is placed out of doors on a hot day, evaporation occurs very rapidly. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- This should be kept ready for use in a small bottle with a good-fitting stopper. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- They had not yet tried beer with so much fullness as other articles, but about nine months ago a small quantity was treated and left exposed to the air, with only a loose stopper of cotton wool. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- I opened some of the bottles, smelt them, and put the stoppers to my lips. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The mixture should be preserved in bottles with glass stoppers, as the benzine is very volatile. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- It can be used with a common pen, but must be kept in bottles coated inside with paraffine, beeswax, or gutta-percha, with rubber stoppers. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The pigeons and the steak have been preserved raw in stoppered bottles since the 21st of last November and the eggs since the 4th of July, 1881. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- I looked at the board tables, the instruments shining in the light, the basins and the stoppered bottles. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- What I wanted was a metal box which might be soldered, or a thick glass jar or bottle which might be stoppered or sealed hermetically. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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