| 单词 | water transport |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater transport water transport n. (a) transportation of people or goods by boat or other waterborne vessel; (also) waterborne vessels collectively; (b) the transport of substances or objects dissolved in, carried by, or swept along by water; (c) the transport of water, esp. within living organisms. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > transportation of goods fraughtc1440 freight1463 freighting1672 water transport1780 shipment1802 boatage1861 carrying1869 society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > passengers or livestock water transport1780 shifting ballast1785 the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > [noun] > diffusion through porous membrane water transport1780 endosmose1829 endosmosis1836 osmosis1863 1780 J. Burgoyne State Exped. from Canada 10 Gun-boats might be requisite for the security of water transport, on some parts of the Hudson's River. 1833 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 581/1 Water-transport of all kinds has grown more commodious. 1841 J. R. Jackson What to Observe ii. §1. 120 These differences depend on a variety of circumstances, but principally upon the accumulation [of debris] being formed by dry crumbling from above, or by water transport. 1873 Sugar Cane 5 286 It is an essential in the internal economy of the plant, where all the traffic is carried on by water transport. 1924 Mariner's Mirror 10 131 The physical features of the region, rivers among dense forests, render water transport the only means of communication. 1958 W. S. Cooper Coastal Sand Dunes Oregon & Washington 21 Between any adjoining pair of obstacles there should, therefore, be a seasonal shifting of sand in water transport, back and forth. 1974 Nature 31 May 495/3 Transcapillary and transepithelial water transport. 1981 Antiquaries Jrnl. 61 i. 129 A general survey of early types of water transport, discusses log rafts, boats of reed, bark and skin, also dug-outs and the evolution of the plank-built boat. 2006 Science 19 May 1034/1 Water transport through molecular-scale hydrophobic channels is also important because of the similarity of this system to transmembrane protein pores such as aquaporins. < as lemmas |
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