单词 | quint |
释义 | quintnoun ˈkwint plural quints 1 informal : quintuplet sense 2 Corinne, who was the smallest quint at birth—2 pounds, 14 ounces—is still the shortest. Chris Swingle The natural birth rate for twins is 1 in 90; for quints it's around 1 in 65 million. Sara Kliff 2 : a jump (as in figure skating or skiing) that consists of at least five but less than six revolutions … a Czech named Ales Valenta revolutionized the sport of freestyle aerials yesterday with a magical quint, five twists that earned him a spectacular score … Filip Bondy Goebel … had already become the first U.S. skater to land a quad at the nationals … making them look so easy that his coach, Carol Heiss Jenkins, spoke of Goebel's someday doing a "quint." E. M. Swift 3 : a multi-purpose vehicle used by firefighters that includes a water tank, fire hose, pump, aerial ladder or platform, and portable ladders Firefighters call it a "quint" because it combines five different functions, [David] Kinsey said. The truck carries a ladder, a hose, a pump with its own generator, a 400-gallon water tank and a 100-foot-long aerial tower. Jane Meinhardt Over the next couple of years, aging engine and ladder trucks at the 10 lower-activity stations will be replaced with quints—fire trucks that carry ladders, water tank, pump, hoses and other rescue and fire suppression equipment. The Houston Chronicle —often used before another noun a quint fire truckquint vehicles |
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