| 单词 | bulkhead |
| 释义 | bulkhead (once / 4674 pages) n The divider or wall between sections of a plane or large ship is called a bulkhead. When you're seated in first class on a jet, there's a bulkhead between you and the pilot's cabin. The bulkhead you're most likely to see is in a commercial airliner, dividing the flight crew from the passengers and sometimes the first class flyers from those in coach. Other vehicles have them too, including submarines and ships — these bulkheads help strengthen the vessels and keep different areas watertight. The Old Norse root of bulkhead is bálkr, "partition." WORD FAMILYbulkhead: bulkheads USAGE EXAMPLESThe intact forested shoreline without bulkhead or break to the beach and near shore is a critical resting and feeding opportunity for juvenile salmon. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Margate and several residents say bulkheads already in place provide enough storm protection. Seattle Times(Nov 23, 2016) Recently, I watched a grandfather and his grandson throwing crackers to the swans along the bulkhead at Sheepshead Bay. New York Times(Oct 14, 2016) n a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments Hyper divider, partition a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) |
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