| 单词 | ball and socket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasball and socket ball and socket n. (also ball-and-socket joint) a joint formed of a ball or rounded extremity partly enclosed in a cup or socket, which thus has great freedom of play combined with strength; (Anatomy) = enarthrosis n.In quot. 1863 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > types of joint > [noun] seamc1050 commissure?a1425 arthrodia1565 commissary1577 gomphosis1578 inarticulation1578 suture1578 symphysis1578 synarthrosis1578 adarticulation1615 harmony1615 synchondrosis1615 enarthrosis1634 harmonia1657 mortise-articulation1658 ball and socket1664 synneurosis1676 syssarcosis1676 ginglymus1678 syndesmosis1726 ginglymus1733 hinge-joint1802 screw-joint1810 schindylesis1830 amphiarthrosis1835 pivot joint1848 synosteosis1848 synostosis1848 indigitation1849 screwed-surfaced joint1875 thorough-joint1889 1661 J. Brown Descr. & Use Joynt-rule xvi. 86 If the Sector be fitted with a staff, and a ball-socket, you may turn it either horizontal, or perpendicular, and so take any Angle with it, very conveniently and readily.] 1664 R. Hooke Let. 21 Oct. in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. in Oxf. (1930) VI. 206 I have not been able to send down the ball and socket you desired. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 42 Enarthrosis, or the Ball and Socket..when a large Head is received into a deep Cavity. 1809 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 182 There is a regular ball and socket joint between every two vertebræ. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters 159 By..impenetrable assurance, and a ball-and-socket morality. 1919 L. H. Morrison Oil Engines xxiii. 407 Primm Oil Engine Fuel Nozzle... The Primm makes use of a yoke connection which admits the fuel into the nozzle at one side, the junction being a ball and socket joint. 1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face App. F. 286 A special clamp to fit on the head of an ice axe with a ball-and-socket attachment for the camera. 2000 Rosemary Conley Diet & Fitness Oct. 101/2 Instead of having smooth, well-formed ball and socket joints between the femur and pelvis, dysplastic dogs have malformed joints. < as lemmas |
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