单词 | casing |
释义 | casing /kay"sing/, n. 1. a case or covering; housing. 2. material for a case or covering. 3. the framework around a door or window. 4. the outermost covering of an automobile tire. 5. any frame or framework. 6. a steel pipe or tubing, esp. as used in oil and gas wells. 7. a layer of glass that has been fused to an underlying layer of glass of a different color or of different properties. 8. the thin, tubular membrane of the intestines of sheep, cattle, or hogs, or a synthetic facsimile, for encasing processed meat in making sausages, salamis, etc. 9. Naut. the walls surrounding a funnel. 10. a channel created in a garment or other article to carry a drawstring or elastic, as by sewing a strip of cloth to the basic material with two parallel rows of stitches. [1565-75; CASE2 + -ING1] |
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