| 释义 |
oilless, a.|ˈɔɪllɪs|
[f. as prec. + -less.]
Devoid of oil; containing no oil; not lubricated, or not requiring to be lubricated, with oil.
a1787J. Brown Sel. Rem. (1807) 299 You content yourselves with an oilless lamp of a bare profession. 1850Scoresby Cheever's Whalem. Adv. x. (1859) 140 Those beautiful oilless candles which are sold under the name of spermaceti. 1862Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 153 The dissonant wail of an oilless door. a1902Mod. A patent carboid oilless bearing. 1922[see graphited a.]. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 591/1 Oil-less circuit-breaker, a circuit-breaker which does not use oil either as the quenching medium or for insulation purposes. 1972H. Osborne Pay-Day i. 19 Panjeh had always been a poor relation on the Coast, an oil-less sheikhdom. 1974Economist 21 Dec. 11/2 France..has come back in from its oilless cold to work with its allies.
Hence ˈoillessness.
1866J. E. H. Skinner After the Storm II. 226 Those who burnt their fingers at the game [in oil shares] quickly vanished into outer oillessness. |