| 释义 |
deck·er
I. \ˈdekə(r)\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: deck (I) + -er
1. : a ship having a specified number of decks or amount of deck space
< a single-decker >
< a half-decker >
2. : something constructed with a specified number of levels, floors, or layers
< a double-decker sandwich >
< the single-decker country buses — Evelyn Waugh >
3. : tenement, apartment
< people who live in deckers >
4. [deck (II) (to load) + -er] : one that decks logs
5. [probably from the name Decker] : wet machine
6. : an opaque diaphragm having one or more openings and being used to limit the field of a microscope or the slit length of a spectroscope
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
papermaking : to pass (pulp) over a wet machine |