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单词 faceplate
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faceplaten.

Brit. /ˈfeɪspleɪt/, U.S. /ˈfeɪsˌpleɪt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: face n., plate n.
Etymology: < face n. + plate n.
1. An outer protective plate on a mechanism or a piece of machinery.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > sleeves, coverings, or screens
spring box1696
jacket1815
faceplate1827
shoe1837
jacketing1842
splasher1848
splash-board1850
sleeve1865
shield1888
sleeving1923
mesh1926
1827 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 13 197 Plate VIII..shews the interior of the lock, the face-plate being removed.
1851 J. Bourne Treat. Steam Engine (new ed.) 217/2 When the valve is laid upon the face-plate, the back must be made quite fair along the whole length, by draw-filing.
1909 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 83 11 At the back of the camera tube was a brass face-plate against which the brass front of the dark slide fitted.
1970 F. McKenna Gloss. Railwaymen's Talk p. x If you faced the fire-box you were subjected to radiant heat from the fire-box and the faceplate fittings.
1998 B. Y. Cooper Death Trap ii. 38 The German assault gun..had a barbette turret (it did not rotate) with the gun mounted behind a heavy six-inch armored faceplate.
2. Engineering. A circular plate that may be fixed to the mandrel of a lathe to hold work that cannot be readily held by a chuck, and typically having slots or holes to facilitate attachment of the work. Cf. earlier face chuck n. at face n. Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > part holding work
mandrel1664
chock1665
pike1680
centre plate1717
carrier1733
chuck1806
screw chuck1827
grip-knob1833
faceplate1837
surface chuck1842
jaw-chuck1874
turning-carrier1877
screw worm chuck1881
steady1885
roller steady1911
1837 Brit. Patent 7510 (1857) 2 The novel construction and application of..the chuck or face plate, by which the work to be turned is secured and held in its proper position.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 201 A carrier is then secured on a part of the plug that projects out of the breech-end of the barrel, and then put into the face-plate of the lathe, which carries it round.
1914 R. H. Grant Manuf. Steel Balls (‘Machinery’ Ref. Bk. No. 116) i. 7 There is no turret slide or feed mechanism, but simply a solid tailstock with a heavy faceplate having a cam cut in the face.
2005 Woodworker May 57/1 To mount the disc for the top on the lathe, you could use very short screws to hold it onto a faceplate.
3. A flat plate over which something can be moved to and fro; (Electrical Engineering, attributive) designating an apparatus in which a movable contact is moved over a set of fixed contacts on such a plate.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > connection, contact > [noun] > contact device
faceplate1860
brush-form1872
contact piece1876
brush1883
contact brush1884
contact block1901
make-and-break1903
1860 W. Fairbairn Useful Information for Engineers 2nd Ser. i. ii. 74 The indications are communicated by a rack and pinion to the hand of the gauge which moves over a face plate graduated by trial.
1925 Brit. Patent 242,807 1/2 When the helically wound cylinder is used directly as a rheostat, without contact faceplate, a single cylinder rheostat has two [contact] rings.
1928 U.S. Patent 1,682,461 1 A relay of the type usually used with a face-plate regulator.
1991 K. G. Oliver Basic Industr. Electr. xiii. 187/1 The difference in appearance between a faceplate starter..and a faceplate controller..is the arrangement of contact segments on the face of the control.
2004 D. P. Kothari & I. J. Nagrath Electr. Machines (ed. 3) vii. 371 The connection diagram of a manual face plate starter of a dc shunt motor is shown.
4. The transparent window of a protective helmet.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > one-piece garment > [noun] > part of
faceplate1930
footy1938
1930 E. E. Smith in Amazing Stories Aug. 405/2 Back in the control-room, Dunark and Sitar let their pressure decrease gradually to that of the terrestrial vessel and removed the face-plates from their helmets.
1975 G. F. Bass Archaeol. beneath Sea i. 13 I swam along the shore wearing my first mask, its plastic faceplate so badly scratched it was more translucent than transparent.
1982 ‘C. J. Cherryh’ Merchanter's Luck iii. 38 His mother had shot one of the boarders.., got an armored man right in the faceplate.
2001 T. A. Heppenheimer Brief Hist. Flight xviii. 300 His faceplate had misted over; he cleared it by switching on an electric heater.
5. Electronics. The part of a cathode ray tube that carries the phosphor screen.
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1942 U.S. Patent 2,291,476 5/1 The electron beam of the recording tube will accordingly be oscillated horizontally across the face plate of the recording tube by the deflecting plates.
1984 L. W. Wallis Electronic Typesetting i. 41 The photo-sensitive material was in direct contact with the CRT faceplate during exposure.
2003 R. L. Goodman How Electronic Things Work (ed. 2) iv. 134 The alternating current moves the electron beam from the top of the picture tube faceplate to the bottom and quickly back.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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