单词 | streamliner |
释义 | streamlinern. a. A stream-lined train. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > streamlined train streamliner1938 1938 Times 14 Oct. 15/6 One of the latest streamliners to be put into operation is that of the Reading Line between New York and Philadelphia. 1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) v. 55 To read the country while you run is possible even from a streamliner. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road iii. ix. 229 A hundred and ten miles an hour straight through, an arrow road, sleeping towns, no traffic, and the Union Pacific streamliner falling behind us in the moonlight. 1967 O. Wynd Walk Softly v. 72 The Fuji is a great train, a streamliner, everything shiny and new. 1982 Whitehouse & Allen E. Treacy—Railway Photographer 85 A streamliner takes the 5.25 to Euston past Wavertree. b. One who streamlines. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [noun] > action of simplifying > one who or that which simplifies > specific streamliner1943 1943 F. L. Wright Autobiogr. iv. 321 Invention..looking for salvation to the engineer, the streamliner, and the elevator, has been trying to..hold the profits of superconcentration. c. gen. Something streamlined. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [noun] > action of simplifying > something streamlined streamliner1968 1968 Church Times 13 Sept. 18/3 I hear you have sold your old house and are looking for a streamliner. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1938 |
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