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

drum-tight adj. and adv. (a) adj. very taut or tight (in various senses of the adjective); cf. (as) tight as a drum at tight adj., adv., and n.² Additions; (b) adv. so as to be very tight or taut.

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1835 K. Thomson Rosabel II. ix. 120 This hat, of a globular form, made of chip, lined with silk, drum tight, and garnished with long streamers of ribbon at the sides.

1880 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 9 July 333/1 The gas bags must not be filled drumtight if you wish to keep the light steady.

1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove v. 29 The skin did not seem to fit the cheekbones, being drum-tight.

1996 D. F. Wallace Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never do again (1997) 293 The Nadir 's chairs' material is not striated or cross-hatched in some web but is a solid expanse stretched drum-tight over the frame.

2014 Business Spectator (Nexis) 18 Sept. History shows that temporary visas..broadly did a lot to supply skilled labour to the drum-tight jobs market created by the resources boom.

单词	drum-tight
释义	> as lemmas drum-tight drum-tight adj. and adv. (a) adj. very taut or tight (in various senses of the adjective); cf. (as) tight as a drum at tight adj., adv., and n.² Additions; (b) adv. so as to be very tight or taut. ΚΠ 1835 K. Thomson Rosabel II. ix. 120 This hat, of a globular form, made of chip, lined with silk, drum tight, and garnished with long streamers of ribbon at the sides. 1880 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 9 July 333/1 The gas bags must not be filled drumtight if you wish to keep the light steady. 1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove v. 29 The skin did not seem to fit the cheekbones, being drum-tight. 1996 D. F. Wallace Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never do again (1997) 293 The Nadir 's chairs' material is not striated or cross-hatched in some web but is a solid expanse stretched drum-tight over the frame. 2014 Business Spectator (Nexis) 18 Sept. History shows that temporary visas..broadly did a lot to supply skilled labour to the drum-tight jobs market created by the resources boom. extracted from drumn.¹ < as lemmas
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