单词	terminal
释义	terminal1 nounterminal2 adjective terminalterminal1 /ˈtɜːmɪnəl $ ˈtɜːr-/ ●●○ AWL noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES A free shuttle bus runs between the airport terminal and the train station. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS AlterNet service also sells a full range of equipment used for the Internet connections: modems, routers, and terminal servers. But one terminal, in what Jurkowsky called an oversight, was not purged. His name has appeared on billboards, television and radio stations, computer terminals and a Johns Hopkins research building. Jessamyn left the dead woman with her face in her terminal, and climbed on to the top of the command module. Many antidepressants just slow down the reuptake of the neurotransmitter into the presynaptic terminal. Without the King's Cross terminal, there may be real problems. Workers who once did strenuous manual labour picking wood for the grinders now sit at computer terminals. Thesaurus THESAURUS► terminal a big building where people wait to get onto planes: · The airline uses terminal 4.· Smoking is prohibited inside the terminal building. ► runway a long hard surface on which aircraft land and take off: · The plane was taxiing along the runway. ► the tarmac an area covered with tarmac outside airport buildings: · He stepped off the plane onto the tarmac. ► check-in (desk) a place where you report your arrival at an airport ► departure lounge the place where you wait until your plane is ready to leave ► departure gate the place you go through to get on your plane: · Will passengers for flight BA670 please go to the departure gate. ► baggage reclaim (also baggage claim) American English the place where you collect your cases and bags after a flight ► immigration the place where officials check the documents of everyone entering the country: · Be prepared for long queues at immigration. ► customs the place where your bags are checked for illegal goods when you enter a country: · We had our bags checked at customs. WORD SETS► Air aerial, adjectiveaero-, prefixaerobatics, nounaerodrome, nounaeronautics, nounairborne, adjectiveaircraft, nounaircrew, nounairfare, nounairfield, nounairline, nounairliner, nounair pocket, nounairport, nounairship, nounairsick, adjectiveairspace, nounairspeed, nounairstrip, nounair terminal, nounair traffic controller, nounairway, nounairworthy, adjectivealtimeter, nounapron, nounautomatic pilot, nounautopilot, nounaviation, nounaviator, nounballast, nounballoon, nounballooning, nounbank, verbbarrage balloon, nounbiplane, nounblack box, nounblimp, nounboarding card, nounboarding pass, nounbulkhead, nounbusiness class, nounbuzz, verbcabin, nouncaptain, nouncarousel, nounceiling, nouncharter flight, nouncheck-in, nounchock, nounchopper, nounchute, nounclub class, nouncontrail, nouncontrol tower, nounco-pilot, nouncowling, nouncraft, nouncrash landing, noundeparture lounge, noundepartures board, noundirigible, noundisembark, verbdive, verbeconomy class, nouneject, verbejector seat, nounfin, nounflap, nounflier, nounflight, nounflight attendant, nounflight deck, nounflight path, nounflight recorder, nounflight simulator, nounfly, verbflyby, nounflyer, nounflying, nounflypast, nounfree fall, nounfuselage, noungate, nounglider, noungliding, noungondola, nounground, verbground control, nounground crew, nounground staff, nounhangar, nounhang-glider, nounhang-gliding, nounhelicopter, nounhelicopter pad, nounheliport, nounhijacking, nounholding pattern, nounhot-air balloon, nounhydroplane, nouninbound, adjectivein-flight, adjectiveinstrument panel, nounjet, nounjet engine, nounjet-propelled, adjectivejet propulsion, nounjoystick, nounjumbo jet, nounjump jet, nounland, verblanding gear, nounlanding strip, nounlayover, nounlift, nounlight aircraft, nounlounge, nounlow-flying, adjectivemicrolight, nounmonoplane, nounnavigation, nounno-fly zone, nounnose, nounnosedive, nounnosedive, verboverfly, verbparachute, nounparachute, verbparachutist, nounpilot, nounpilot, verbpitch, nounpitch, verbplane, nounplot, verbpod, nounpressurized, adjectiveprop, nounpropeller, nounradio beacon, nounrefuel, verbripcord, nounroll, verbroll, nounrotor, nounrudder, nounrunway, nounseaplane, nounseat belt, nounshort-haul, adjectiveski plane, nounskycap, nounsonic boom, nounspoiler, nounsteward, nounstewardess, nounstrut, nounswept-back, adjectiveswoop, verbtail, nountailspin, nountake-off, nountaxi, verbterminal, nountest pilot, nounthrust, nountouchdown, nountransit lounge, nountransport plane, nounturbojet, nounturboprop, nountwin-engined, adjectiveundercarriage, nounupgrade, verbvapour trail, nounwheel, verbwindsock, nounwind tunnel, nounwing, nounwingspan, nounwingtip, nounzeppelin, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► ferry/bus terminal ► positive/negative terminal COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► terminal illness (=causing death eventually, and not possible to cure)· At that point the illness was thought to be terminal. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► international · During that time, passengers will have to cross to a new international terminal at Waterloo.· Most of the route will be elevated, with two stations serving the international and domestic terminals.· As posters go up in hotel lobbies and banners are hung in the international airport terminals, crowds are a foregone conclusion. ► negative · Polarity Each battery has a positive and negative terminal.· Under no circumstances make the connection to the negative battery terminal!· The negative terminal is called the cathode and the positive is the anode. ► positive · Operation of the dot key earthed the battery positive terminal, putting a negative potential on the signalling capacitor.· Polarity Each battery has a positive and negative terminal. NOUN► air · Harmondsworth detention centre is in an arid wasteland of motorways and outposts of the air terminals past Heathrow airport. ► airport · I also have to make sure when the passengers come into the airport terminal they are entering a clean, well-presented environment.· In exactly thirty-five minutes, I want you to leave and go to the airport terminal.· Laura's normally sparkling blue eyes were cloudy and dull as their car approached the airport terminal.· A second airport terminal was opened in 1990 and there are plans to reclaim more land for a third and a fourth.· As posters go up in hotel lobbies and banners are hung in the international airport terminals, crowds are a foregone conclusion. ► bus · Hotel St Raphael A superior first-class hotel close to the airport bus terminal.· After she had rolled the empty barrels back into the garage, she went inside and called the bus terminal.· The east shore of the bay had no airport landing strip, no railhead, no long-distance bus terminal. ► computer · Girls now sat at the computer terminals, tapping intermittently with glum looks on their faces.· In the 19905, I believe that about half of the work force will use computer terminals each day.· He stared in disgust at his computer terminal, praying for enlightenment which refused to come.· I kept a computer terminal in my office.· Calls can be made, answered and transferred directly from the computer terminal.· The wires provided the power for the computer terminals and telephones of the bond trading room.· The new system uses bulky counter-top computer terminals, installed in a selection of shops, to monitor record sales.· In the works is an Internet Cafe for the restaurant where computer terminals would link members to the Internet and e-mail. ► ferry · The other £3 million was spent on the three ferry terminals.· Courtesy coaches run between Dunkirk's ferry terminal, town centre and hypermarket.· To date £6.7 million has been spent on two incomplete ferry terminals at Gills Bay and Burwick. 1a big building where people wait to get onto planes, buses, or ships, or where goods are loaded:  the airport’s passenger terminalferry/bus terminal2a piece of computer equipment consisting of at least a keyboard and a screen, that you use for putting in or taking out information from a large computer3one of the points at which you can connect wires in an electrical circuitpositive/negative terminal terminal1 nounterminal2 adjective terminalter‧mi‧nal2 ●●○ AWL adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINterminal1 Origin: 1400-1500 Latin terminalis, from terminus; ➔ TERM1 Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES terminal buds Is the disease terminal? Many of the patients are in the terminal stages of the disease. She was recently told she has terminal cancer. St Helen's Hospice cares for people with terminal illnesses. Two years ago, his mother developed terminal cancer. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Fremont Elementary was old and soiled, waiting for terminal erosion like the bits of tire debris that trucks leave on freeways. Ideally, some one with a terminal illness should at least have the right to work part-time as long as they are able. Networks that exhibit the same terminal behaviour as some device, system or more complicated network are naturally known as equivalent circuits. One of these, designated B9, was expressed sparsely in terminal placenta and with varying levels in most other tissues. Other proposals concern the carry-back of unrelieved charges on income, and the carry-forward of terminal losses against income by individuals. Stopping it or even pausing it would have caused terminal embarrassment for everyone involved. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorwhen a disease cannot be cured► incurable · My doctor told me that the cancer was incurable.· Patients with incurable illnesses are brought to the hospice, where they are given the best possible care. ► chronic a chronic illness continues for a very long time or is permanent: · He suffers from chronic asthma. ► terminal a terminal illness is one that cannot be cured, and the person who has it will die from it: · Two years ago, his mother developed terminal cancer.· St Helen's Hospice cares for people with terminal illnesses.the terminal stages (=the last stages of a disease that is killing them): · Many of the patients are in the terminal stages of the disease. an illness or accident that you die from► fatal a fatal accident or medical condition kills the person who has it, usually immediately: · a fatal heart attack· Meyer's car was involved in a fatal accident on the freeway. ► terminal a terminal illness cannot be cured, and the person who has it will soon die: · Is the disease terminal?· She was recently told she has terminal cancer. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► terminal illness (=causing death eventually, and not possible to cure)· At that point the illness was thought to be terminal. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► cancer · This rich, high-caste woman had had terminal cancer.· The novelist Ann Lamott tells a story about going shopping with a friend who was in the late stages of terminal cancer.· Discussion Our results suggest that oxygen supplementation decreased the intensity of dyspnoea in patients with terminal cancer.· In a study of terminal cancer patients, the positive response was even higher.· However, in patients with terminal cancer the normal cause of dyspnoea is restrictive pulmonary failure.· For the last week he's been in a hospice with terminal cancer. ► decline · Mrs Holloway says that she's sad that a once great industry now seems to be in terminal decline.· Beyond electoral matters, there was growing belief that, for long-term sociological and historical reasons, Labour was in terminal decline.· Those are not the statistics of an industry in terminal decline.· But it does happen, and I venture to suggest should happen wherever there is apparently terminal decline.· This is more than can be said for the ever-decreasing Daily Mirror and Daily Express, both in terminal decline.· That third-world economy with a super-power arsenal could be in terminal decline.· After appearing to be in terminal decline the monarchy is back in business.· It is important to emphasise that older people should not be regarded enmasse as ill, frail or in terminal decline. ► illness · Charles took on Diana's mantle speaking on terminal illness, while she prepared to tread the world stage.· Her terrible, inexplicable terminal illness.· How would you feel, say, if you had an incurable disease, or a terminal illness?· Being somewhat overweight is not a serious health problem, and obesity is not a terminal illness.· Ideally, some one with a terminal illness should at least have the right to work part-time as long as they are able.· We feel like a patient with a possible terminal illness that no one will tell the results of the tests.· At present, patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness.· Patient E16 had only been in hospital once, three years before his terminal illness. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► (in) terminal decline After appearing to be in terminal decline the monarchy is back in business. Beyond electoral matters, there was growing belief that, for long-term sociological and historical reasons, Labour was in terminal decline. But it does happen, and I venture to suggest should happen wherever there is apparently terminal decline. It is important to emphasise that older people should not be regarded enmasse as ill, frail or in terminal decline. Mrs Holloway says that she's sad that a once great industry now seems to be in terminal decline. That third-world economy with a super-power arsenal could be in terminal decline. This is more than can be said for the ever-decreasing Daily Mirror and Daily Express, both in terminal decline. Those are not the statistics of an industry in terminal decline. 1a terminal illness cannot be cured, and causes death → fatal:  terminal cancer2(in) terminal decline British English in a state of becoming worse and worse and never getting better:  The once great industry is now in terminal decline.—terminally adverb:  terminally ill patients
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