单词 | chicane |
释义 | chicane (once / 7095 pages) 1nv 2v 3n 4n WORD FAMILY chicane: chicaned, chicanery, chicanes, chicaning+/chicanery: chicaneries USAGE EXAMPLESHe had overtaken Vettel by bypassing a chicane but was not asked to give up the position by the race director. BBC(Nov 11, 2016) Perhaps the tightest part of the track, at least psychologically, is the right-left chicane that hugs the stone wall. The Verge(Aug 28, 2016) The Mulsanne’s twin chicanes seemed pretty straightforward, except that you enter the first from the right and the second from the left. The Verge(Jun 14, 2016) 1 1n the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) Syn|Hypo|Hyper chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage juggleryartful trickery designed to achieve an end goldbrickanything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation the act of deceiving 2v defeat someone through trickery or deceit 2Syn|Hyper cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish come out better in a competition, race, or conflict v raise trivial objections 3Syn|Hyper carp, cavil object express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent n a bridge hand that is void of trumps 4Hyper bridge hand the cards held in a game of bridge n a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file Hyper movable barrier a barrier that can be moved to allow passage |
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