| 单词 | expanded steel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexpanded steel b. expanded metal, expanded steel, sheet metal slit and stretched into a lattice, used for making screens and lockers, and for reinforcing concrete, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > metal in other forms foil1398 scissel1622 skelp1835 punching1838 sponge1861 expanded metal1890 weldment1945 1890 Builder 28 June 477/3 A strip of steel..is fed into a powerful automatic machine, which..produces a sheet of expanded metal. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 May 1/3 The plaster..is spread upon expanded metal lathing. 1913 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. (ed. 4) 434 Expanded steel, steel sheet which is pierced and opened out in a machine, yielding lozenge-shaped spaces, which are filled, and the whole embedded in concrete. 1937 Discovery Jan. 20/2 A concrete jacket reinforced by expanded metal and pieces of scrap iron. 1958 Observer 3 Aug. 7/3 The first expanded metal..was to replace timber laths in plaster work. 1968 Gloss. Terms Mechanized & Hand Sheet Metal Work (B.S.I.) 10 Expanded metal, a mesh consisting of a lattice-work of undulating strands. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。