| 单词 | road plate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad plate road plate n. a metal plate used on a road, railroad, or roadway; spec. (a) one of the plates carrying the roadway in an iron bridge (now rare); (b) a plate forming (part of) a temporary road surface during repair or maintenance. Π 1821 W. Losh Patent in London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. (1822) 3 244 Applying a surface plate upon one side of a malleable iron bar, which shall have been roiled or turned into the shape of a rolling road-plate [for a railway]. 1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 133/2 When the main ribs..rested on their centres, and before any of the spandrils and road plates had been put upon them. 1924 Times 26 Mar. 10/4 The more obvious of these disadvantages are the inconvenience and danger to every other vehicle of the tramway lines, points, and road-plates. 1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 Mar. 14 The use of smooth steel ‘road plates’, like ice when wet, to patch over holes. 2003 N.Y. Mag. 11 Aug. 60/1 The percussions of eighteen-wheelers crossing multiple road plates. < as lemmas |
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