单词 | side stick |
释义 | side stickn. 1. Printing. A thin piece of wood placed at the side of a page in a forme when it is imposed so as to secure it and produce a margin at the side of the printed page. Cf. reglet n. 2a. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > furniture surrounding matter in chase > specific quoin1570 reglet1636 foot-stick1683 side stick1683 clump1875 galley-stick1888 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 28 By Furniture is meant the Head-sticks, Foot-sticks, Side sticks,..and Quoyns. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Printing Some of these are placed at the Top of the Pages, call'd Head-sticks;..others at the Sides, call'd Side-sticks. 1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 203 Having dressed the inside of our pages, we proceed to do the same to their outsides, by putting side sticks and foot sticks to them. 1879 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxviii. 12 The inventor claims for them that they are a perfect system of locking-up without side-sticks. 1921 Amer. Printer 5 Oct. 80/3 The only side stick in use today is the crude straight or triangular shaped furniture which has to be wedged in the galley with quoins. 2003 M. Belson On the Press i. 69 A large metal frame known as a ‘chase’ would be placed around the imposed pages and they were ‘dressed’ with furniture, leads, side-sticks, and quoins. 2. Aeronautics. In an aircraft: a control column situated to one side of the pilot's seat. More fully side-stick controller. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > controls and instruments > [noun] > controls > control column or lever control column1902 yoke1904 joystick1913 stick1914 control stick1916 side stick1955 1955 AOPA Pilot Oct. 50b/3 They activate the ailerons (without side-stick pressure) in a roll direction that is opposite to the desired yaw direction. 1957 Aeronaut. Engin. Rev. Aug. 64/1 Two sticks were installed in the cockpit to allow the pilot to fly the electrical control systems with either a center or a side stick. 1974 Flying Oct. 80/2 A very small movement of the side-stick controller causes a rapid change in pitch rate. 1985 Economist 1 June (Aircraft Indust. Surv.) 17/1 The big bet is the A320, crammed full of the latest technology (including a jet-fighter-style sidestick for the pilot). 1994 T. Clancy Debt of Honor xlii. 652 His hand worked the sidestick controller. 2004 A. Degani Taming HAL iii. xv. 217 The copilot was going to be making a manual takeoff, pulling on the side stick to pitch the aircraft into the air. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1683 |
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