英语词汇“lighter-than-water”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

> as lemmas

lighter-than-water

c. lighter-than-sea, lighter-than-water: (of a vessel) displacing less than its own volume of water and hence buoyant enough to float (in direct comparison to lighter-than-air adj. 1). rare.

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1917 C. C. Turner Air-craft To-day vii. 105 Certainly the liner is a lighter-than-sea machine, but only a portion of the liner is in the sea.

1933 Investig. Dirigible Disasters: Hearings before Joint Comm. (U.S. Congr.: 73rd Congr., 1st Sess.) 826 It is my opinion that they will..achieve sufficiently great speeds, with absolute safety, in lighter-than-air ships of metal, just as they now achieve a lesser, but considerable, speed plus safety with lighter-than-water ships of metal.

extracted from lightadj.¹n.²

as lemmas

单词	lighter-than-water
释义	> as lemmas lighter-than-water c. lighter-than-sea, lighter-than-water: (of a vessel) displacing less than its own volume of water and hence buoyant enough to float (in direct comparison to lighter-than-air adj. 1). rare. ΚΠ 1917 C. C. Turner Air-craft To-day vii. 105 Certainly the liner is a lighter-than-sea machine, but only a portion of the liner is in the sea. 1933 Investig. Dirigible Disasters: Hearings before Joint Comm. (U.S. Congr.: 73rd Congr., 1st Sess.) 826 It is my opinion that they will..achieve sufficiently great speeds, with absolute safety, in lighter-than-air ships of metal, just as they now achieve a lesser, but considerable, speed plus safety with lighter-than-water ships of metal. extracted from lightadj.¹n.² < as lemmas
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