单词 | exit gate |
释义 | > as lemmasexit gate a. General attributive, as (in senses 3, 7) exit gate, exit passage, exit route, exit sign, etc., (in sense 8) exit play, etc. ΚΠ 1798 Monthly Mag. Aug. 127/1 The regress of the water is prevented by the shutting of the exit-valve. 1820 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 1 94 The exit passage of the chamber..is raised above the level of the fluid metal in the condensing or vacuum passage. 1840 Mechanics' Mag. 16 May 720/1 The exit stairs are on both sides of the main staircase. 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Kingdom of Italy: Official Descr. Catal. p. xxviii Honourable Mention... For their model of exit gates for irrigation. 1890 A. Lansdowne Life's Remin. Scotl. Yard xiii To leave the Monument Station by the exit staircase. 1902 Ophthalmic Rev. 21 166 The exit route from the eye is more or less completely blocked. 1903 Ann. Rep. Mich. Bureau Labor & Industr. Stat. 20 263 Put up fire escape; three iron ladders; exit signs. 1935 Bridge Mag. Oct. 231/1 Possibly the term ‘exit play’ is not the best name for the manœuvre of which I speak. It is called an end play, or an elimination, or a throw-in. 1950 F. C. Craighead Insect Enemies Eastern Forests 267 The pupal cell is constructed in the sapwood or bark, the adult making the exit hole. 1967 H. Hood Camera always Lies ii. viii. 85 They had said nothing to the driver, but telepathically he now swerved into an exit ramp. 1970 Boys' Life Sept. 61/4 An inmate might awake and..slip down the exit passage to the pond below. 1987 S. Barr & J. Poppy Flame x. 74 Here I was on a road bypassing the big city, peering through a torrent of snowflakes for an exit sign. 1990 D. DiMaggio & B. Gilbert Real Grass, Real Heroes xiv. 189 He hit a 3-1 pitch off the screen over the exit gate in right center field. 2000 J. Goldman Dreamworld ii. 7 The exit-area attendants..had ambled over to stand near Avery. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 20 July 64/1 Referring to a means of resisting the status quo, a ‘line of flight’ is less an exit route..than a loose thread. < as lemmas |
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