单词 | firewalled |
释义 | firewalledadj. 1. Having one or more firewalls to inhibit or prevent the spread of fire. ΚΠ 1916 Q. National Fire Protection Assoc. July 105 The building..had a concrete walled shaft about fifty by fifty feet in the center, and two fire walled elevator shafts. 1942 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 9 June 1/8 The building..contained thousands of bales of refuse paper in fire-walled compartments that divided the building into 30-foot sections. 1996 Amer. Libraries 27 17/1 Depending upon when a building was constructed, it can subsequently be retrofitted to accommodate a fire-walled room. 2. Kept procedurally or functionally separate or protected; (also more generally) isolated, insular. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > isolated unassociate1545 insulate1712 insulated1728 islanded1801 isolate1819 unassociated1839 firewalled1988 1988 IFR Internat. Rev. 1987 p. xiv/1 in Internat. Financing Rev. No. 705 Merrill and the Financial Services Counsel are thus pushing what is considered the most radical bill in the Senate, the D'Amato-Cranston bill, which, as one market observer laconically puts it, ‘let's anyone do anything’, just as long as banking operations are completely fire-walled from other operations. 2003 Smithsonian May 110/2 We might also have avoided the huge and costly mistake of dividing academic life into two fire-walled regimes, the humanities and the sciences. 2010 C. Dumas Globalisation Fractures iii. 73 AIG was simply a ludicrously risky hedge fund holding company bobbing atop a sea of solvent and fire-walled insurance companies. 3. Computing. Of data, a computer system, network, etc.: protected from unauthorized access by a firewall. ΚΠ 1994 Matrix News Aug. 5/1 Almost all the firewalled networks do let these communications services in and out. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June a21/1 She sees patients in the tiny community of Springerville near the New Mexico border through a firewalled T1 data line. 2015 B. B. Madan in L. B. Rainey & A. Tolk Modelling & Simulation Support xxi. 573 Since individual systems may reside in autonomous network domains, it will require each network to have its own firewalled gateway to the outside world. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1916 |
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