| 单词 | tail fin |
| 释义 | > as lemmastail fin tail fin n. (a) the caudal fin of a fish; (b) Aeronautics (see quot. 1940); (c) an upswept ornamental projection forming a continuation of the fender line at the rear of a motor vehicle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > fin or parts of fin > caudal tail fin1681 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > stabilizer > of tail tailplane1909 tail fin1940 stabilator1954 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > fin tail fin1954 fin1959 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. v. i. 85 The Tail-Finn, as it were half a Finn, being ½ a foot high. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 562/2 The horizontal position of the tail-fin..distinguishes the cetacean from the fish. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 333/1 Fin, in an aeroplane, a fixed vertical surface giving lateral stability of motion; usually placed at the tail, then sometimes called a tail fin. 1945 W. Langewiesche Stick & Rudder vii. 115 The purpose of the horizontal tail fin is not to hold the tail up, but to hold it down; it is a sort of wing, but a wing set at a negative Angle of Attack. 1954 Wall St. Jrnl. 22 Oct. 16/6 Its [sc. the car's] high fender-line sweeps backward in a straight line but is slightly lower at the tail fins than at the headlights. 1974 P. Dickinson Poison Oracle i. 22 The plane lay still... The symbol of the rising sun stared from the tall tail fin. 1982 Quarto Mar. 7/4 The American family car was a 425-horsepower, twenty-two-foot-long Buick Electra with tail fins in back. < as lemmas |
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