| 单词 | india rubber band | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasIndia rubber band  b.   With the sense ‘made of India rubber’, as  India rubber ball,  India rubber band,  India rubber bottle, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > 			[adjective]		 India rubber1820 1820    Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Jan. 216  				[They] have regarded the bladder as a lifeless receptacle into which, as into an India rubber bottle, almost any solvent might be injected with impunity. 1828    J. K. Paulding New Mirror for Travellers iv. 232  				If on the contrary, she vouchsafed them an outline like a dumpling, it is proper and indispensable to dance, bounce, skip and curvet, like an India rubber ball. 1834    Sci. Tracts & Family Lyceum 15 Feb. 108  				We doubt not the India Rubber bed will soon be classed with those essential articles of necessity. 1837    C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiv. 375  				There was one young gentleman in an India-rubber cloak. 1843    J. C. Frémont Rep. 23 Aug. in  D. Jackson  & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont 		(1970)	 I  				The India-rubber boat was filled with air, placed in the water, and loaded. 1854    Yankee Notions Dec. 379  				Took the certificate out of the india-rubber band, and walked right down to Wall Street. 1885    P. G. Tait Properties of Matter xi. §224  				The pulling out of an india-rubber band is almost entirely due to change of form. 1897    T. C. Allbutt et al.  Syst. Med. III. 563  				When the whole of the wall of the stomach is affected, it forms what is known as the india-rubber bottle stomach. 1939–40    Army & Navy Stores Catal. 812/3  				Indiarubber rings. For use on hockey sticks. 1970    A. K. Armah Fragments ii. 31  				Juana just had the time to see a small india-rubber ball bounce swiftly across the road in front of the Shell tanker. 1990    J. D. Barrow Theories of Everything 		(1991)	 iv. 79  				The elasticity of each smoke-ring seemed no further from perfection than might be expected in a solid india-rubber ring of the same shape. 2007    Edmonton 		(Alberta)	 Jrnl. 		(Nexis)	 15 Nov.  a19  				Pretending I was Nancy Drew worked until an India rubber ball ricocheted off my daydreaming head. < as lemmas | 
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