单词 | starting block |
释义 | starting blocknoun Track.a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet. Origin of starting blockFirst recorded in 1945–50 Words nearby starting blockstarter home, starters, start from scratch, star thistle, start in, starting block, starting gate, starting grid, starting handle, starting price, starting rate Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for starting blockstarting block nounone of a pair of adjustable devices with pads or blocks against which a sprinter braces his feet in crouch starts Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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