| 单词 | to stop a leak |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stop a leak a. To fill up, repair, make good (a breach, hole, crevice, or defective place of any kind). Also with up. So to stop a leak (lit. and fig.). to stop a gap: see gap n.1 1, 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > fill in gaps stop1388 beamfill1469 stuff1601 caulk1616 run1657 strike1668 fog1678 chinse1770 sneck1792 darn1801 pug1820 chink1822 grout1838 fillet1843 gallet1851 slush1875 putty1879 spackle1950 the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > fill a vacant space or place > fill a hole or gap stop1388 stuff1597 to fill up1598 to fay in1847 infill1958 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > become closed or shut [verb (intransitive)] > close a leak to stop a leak1582 society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > plumbing and pipework > [verb (intransitive)] > repair leak to stop a leak1582 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Esdras iv. 7 Whanne Sanaballat hadde herd..that the brekyng of the wal of Jerusalem was stoppid [L. quod obducta esset cicatrix muri]. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 4088 Hay or clay to him he toke, And stoppid creuys in ilk a noke. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlv And to pleche downe the bowes of the same tre, to stoppe the holowe places [in a hedge]..if all the holowe and voyde places woll nat be fylled and stopped: thanne scoure the olde dyche and cast it vp newe. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. lxxv. 153 b Willyng them not to bee a fearde, but to goe forwarde in stopping the leake. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 80 The Chinks are stopt with Parchment pasted or glewed upon them. 1724 A. Ramsay Health 295 He causes stop each cranny in his room. 1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 515/2 [article Etching] The operator must be attentive to the ground, that it does not fail in any part, and where it does to stop up the place with the above composition. 1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Elizabeth vi. 27 It would cost such a lot to stop the leaks in a seven-acre roof. < as lemmas |
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