单词 | stopcock |
释义 | stopcock (once / 57938 pages) n WORD FAMILY stopcock: stopcocks USAGE EXAMPLES"As ice turns to water in the Arctic, New Atlantis turns stopcocks in London," trumpet the headlines in the newspapers. BBC(Feb 08, 2015) The image immediately above shows the location of a gas stopcock cover. BBC(Feb 18, 2014) Just a reason to turn on the stopcock that takes government cash from its source in the Treasury. The Guardian(Mar 12, 2013) n faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid Syn|Hyper cock, turncock faucet, spigot a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir |
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