单词 | spacer |
释义 | spacern.1ΚΠ 1697 T. Creech in tr. Manilius Five Bks. ii. 82 (margin) The intermediate Spacers. 2. a. An object or device used to make a space, interval, or division; (also) a mechanism that regulates or controls spacing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > [noun] > for performing other processes purchase1711 adjuster1747 concentrator1804 steamer1814 isolator1855 spacer1857 tumbler1857 plough1860 aspirator1863 trap1877 tumbling-box1877 plicater1880 comparator1883 tumbler-drum1883 rumbling barrel1894 copier1917 programmer1945 simulator1947 tensioner1950 platformer1953 hydrogasifier1966 snubber1972 society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > spacing material reglet1636 space1676 headstick1683 quadrat1683 quotation1683 rule1683 space1683 quadc1781 spacer1857 mutton1938 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun] reeler1598 driver1659 rubber1747 heading machine1795 bruiser1809 finisher1835 stripper1835 physionotype1836 rotary1836 tetraspaston1842 netting-machine1846 speeder1847 dresser1855 spacer1857 starcher1862 bronzing liquid, machine1865 finishing machine1869 grader1869 brain machine1872 peanut roaster1872 bending machine1874 screw-machine1876 tire-upsetting-machine1877 buncher?1881 flax-breaker1889 oscillator1889 fluoroscope1893 fluorometer1897 mucker1916 spray dryer1921 paver1926 teabagger1940 burster1950 icemaker1953 laminator1958 slipform (concrete) paver1958 extruder1959 Zamboni1965 manipulator1968 wave machine1968 pipelayer1969 walking machine1971 1857 J. A. Turner Cotton Planter's Man. 72 On or about the 10th of April, the cotton seeds were planted after a spacer, by which the hills are regulated precisely as desired. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 911/2 By touching now the justifying-key, he caused the spacer to draw the line into another part of the [type-composing] machine to be justified. 1904 in Cent. Dict. Suppl. (at cited word) These ventilating spaces are obtained by means of metal spacers. 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Apr. 26/3 She figured out a way to save countless man-hours in the manufacture of spacers—small rubber rings used in Rolls Royce airplane engines. 1954 Automobile Engineer 44 508/3 A tubular spacer and two thrust washers round the shaft separate the roller bearings. 2006 Peak District Life Spring 37/1 (advt.) External stone and slate for patios, gardens etc. All ancillaries you may need, including trims, spacers, adhesives and grout. b. Archaeology. More fully spacer plate. A flat bead perforated with several holes in the same plane, by which the threads of a multi-strand necklace are held apart. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > artefacts scyphus1722 ceraunite1814 skyphos1847 shaft-hole1852 ostracon1853 scramasax1862 shard1865 ovate1872 omphalos1884 stop-ridge1894 tsung1904 pygmy flint1907 spacer1907 dotaku1908 yuan1912 roughout1913 rostro-carinate1919 shawabti1922 racloir1923 shoe-last1927 sleeve1929 ard1931 proto-biface1967 1907 W. Hough Antiq. Upper Gila & Salt River Valleys 21 Oblong turquoise beads like the spacers in modern Pueblo necklaces, and polished stone and shell beads were found in profusion. 1940 V. G. Childe Prehist. Communities Brit. Isles vii. 124 In Ireland..the crescentic necklace was translated into a crescentic collar, cut out of a sheet of native gold and relieved with designs in panels, imitating the spacer-plates of the necklaces. 2001 World Archeol. 33 341 Both gold lunulae and jet necklaces are typically decorated with lozenge or triangular motifs on their spacer-plates or upper section. c. Medicine. A tube or chamber that is placed by the user between a pressurized aerosol inhaler and his or her mouth in order to improve delivery of a measured dose of the drug. ΚΠ 1979 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Dec. 1479/1 The interposition of a tube spacer between the aerosol and the mouth reduces the deposition of drug. 1989 European Respiratory Jrnl. 2 377 Equally effective bronchodilatation may be obtained with metered-dose inhalers combined with valved spacers. 2001 Times 24 Apr. ii. 10/2 Recent evidence suggests that five to ten puffs from a conventional inhaler through a ‘spacer’ bottle will help to ease his breathing. 3. A person who or thing which spaces, or allows space, in a particular manner. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [noun] > sufficient space or room > one who or that which allows space spacer1888 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 698/2 It [sc. the cylindrical typewriting machine] is a variable spacer, giving more space to..m and w than to..i, t, and l. 1982 J. Kingdon East Afr. Mammals (1989) IIIC. c. 390 Territories are a very effective spacer of male waterbuck along their littoral habitats. 4. Biology. A non-coding region of DNA occurring between the two coding regions, which may be transcribed but does not form part of the final transcript; esp. one occurring between two genes or cistrons. Also spacer region. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > nucleic acid > DNA > section of operator1961 satellite1962 junk DNA1963 spacer1963 transposon1974 antisense1977 retroposon1983 retrotransposon1985 retroelement1988 microsatellite1989 1963 Science 3 May 480/3 All proposed codes have required, explicitly or implicitly, some additional unknown source of information such as ‘commas’, ‘spacers’, ‘stepping by threes’, ‘forbidden combinations’, and so forth. 1979 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76 4004/2 In the multiplicational multigene families..the spacer region is often more variable than the transcribed region. 2006 W. Sherwin & J. A. M. Graves in P. J. Armati et al. Marsupials ii. 44 It doesn't even have to be a coding region at all: any old piece of spacer, intron or pseudogene sequence can be located if a probe detects variation between different versions of the same DNA sequence in the two parent species. Compounds spacer gel n. Biochemistry (in electrophoresis) a section of a polyacrylamide gel that serves to concentrate the sample (typically protein) before separation; a stacking gel; (also) an additional layer of gel cast between the stacking gel and the resolving gel (used chiefly to aid the resolution of large protein molecules). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [noun] > gel starch gel1907 spacer gel1964 1964 Science 6 Mar. 1036/2 The sample was held down by a piece of dialysis membrane (cellophane) placed between the spacer gel and the cathode buffer reservoir. 1991 Plant Cell 3 984/1 Peptides..were resolved by Tricine- sds- page.., using a 1.5mm gel composed of a separating gel.., a spacer gel..and a stacking gel. 2007 Jrnl. Chromatogr. B. 849 196/1 In this modification,an additional spacer gel is introduced between the stacking and resolving gels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). spacern.2 Science Fiction. 1. = spaceman n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > astronaut or traveller in space > one who has travelled from another planet spaceman1932 spacer1940 1940 I. Asimov in Astonishing Stories Apr. 71/2 I've read books about him. He was the greatest spacer there ever was. 1955 C. M. Kornbluth Mindworm 59 ‘I'm a spacer,’ he said... ‘Venus.’ 1994 Interzone Jan. 63/3 The device may contain the location of the long-lost Godspeed base, hidden somewhere in the swarm of worldlets where the spacers mine asteroids for precious light metals. 2. A spacecraft. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] astronaut1880 spaceship1880 liner1905 space flyer1911 rocket ship1925 space vehicle1928 spacecraft1929 ship1930 spacer1942 1942 C. M. Kornbluth Crisis! in Sci. Fiction Q. Spring 139/1 The ultimatum..had called in all spacers except those related to navigation. 1962 New Worlds Sci. Fiction Sept. 50 The spacer broke through the low hanging layer of clouds above. 2006 Apex Sci. Fiction & Horror Digest Summer 32 The earliest scans were on the spacer Chickmanga bound for a station in Jupiter orbit. 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