英语词汇“code word”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

code word n. (a) a word representing another word, phrase, etc., in a predetermined code (cf. senses 4 and 8a); esp. (originally) such a word used in telegraphy; (b) (in extended use) any word or phrase used to represent another in an indirect or euphemistic way.

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1855 Shaffner's Telegr. Compan. July 212 The regulation being, that code words shall not exceed two syllables in length.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Sept. 5/1 Telegraph companies had to face..the extension of the use of code words.

1918 Yale Rev. Jan. 255 When he ventured..to smile at the people of Europe clamoring in divers tongues to the Almighty, and all ‘calling for victory which is the code word for slaughter’, we listened, chilled and affronted.

1950 Washington Post 7 Apr. c7/1 ‘Steeplechase’ is the code word for a gala time in Capital date books this weekend, as many prominent Washingtonians travel to Warrington for..the Virginia Gold Cup races.

1968 Illustr. London News 14 Dec. 43/4 The whole garden irrigation system, was controlled by telephone: the owner could phone from anywhere she happened to be, and by speaking certain code words, switch various controls on and off.

1994 T. Clancy Debt of Honor xviii. 284 ‘Tango, tango, tango’, Commander Steve Kennedy said..giving the code word for a theoretical or ‘administrative’ torpedo launch.

2006 Foreign Affairs Mar. 64 Washington's use of the term ‘democracy promotion’ has come to be seen overseas not as the expression of a principled American aspiration but as a code word for ‘regime change’—namely, the replacement of bothersome governments by military force or other means.

单词	code word
释义	> as lemmas code word code word n. (a) a word representing another word, phrase, etc., in a predetermined code (cf. senses 4 and 8a); esp. (originally) such a word used in telegraphy; (b) (in extended use) any word or phrase used to represent another in an indirect or euphemistic way. ΚΠ 1855 Shaffner's Telegr. Compan. July 212 The regulation being, that code words shall not exceed two syllables in length. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Sept. 5/1 Telegraph companies had to face..the extension of the use of code words. 1918 Yale Rev. Jan. 255 When he ventured..to smile at the people of Europe clamoring in divers tongues to the Almighty, and all ‘calling for victory which is the code word for slaughter’, we listened, chilled and affronted. 1950 Washington Post 7 Apr. c7/1 ‘Steeplechase’ is the code word for a gala time in Capital date books this weekend, as many prominent Washingtonians travel to Warrington for..the Virginia Gold Cup races. 1968 Illustr. London News 14 Dec. 43/4 The whole garden irrigation system, was controlled by telephone: the owner could phone from anywhere she happened to be, and by speaking certain code words, switch various controls on and off. 1994 T. Clancy Debt of Honor xviii. 284 ‘Tango, tango, tango’, Commander Steve Kennedy said..giving the code word for a theoretical or ‘administrative’ torpedo launch. 2006 Foreign Affairs Mar. 64 Washington's use of the term ‘democracy promotion’ has come to be seen overseas not as the expression of a principled American aspiration but as a code word for ‘regime change’—namely, the replacement of bothersome governments by military force or other means. extracted from coden. < as lemmas
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