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单词 junction
释义
junctionjunc‧tion /ˈdʒʌŋkʃən/ ●●○ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINjunction
Origin:
1700-1800 Latin junctio, from jungere; JOIN
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a highway junction
  • I live in a block of flats at the junction of Cambridge Road and Kilburn High Street.
  • One of Britain's worst rail accidents happened at Clapham Junction.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorthe place or part where two things join
the place where two pieces of wood, metal, plastic etc are joined, especially so that they make one continuous piece: · One of the joints in the pipe was cracked and gas was escaping.· Duvall had just glued the joints of the chair and was tightening a vise to hold them in place.
British the place where two or more pieces of something have been joined together, especially where it has been repaired: · It's been glued back together so well you can hardly see the join.· Years ago, someone had resealed the tank, and now water was beginning to leak from the rusty join.
the place where something is joined to something else, through which electricity or information flows: · Check the connections to make sure all the wires are in the correct places.· By the end of the decade, direct satellite connections for the Internet may be available.· Intelligent people tend to have strong connections between the neurons in their brains.loose connection: · There must be a loose connection somewhere that's stopping it from working.
British the place where two large roads, railway lines, rivers etc join or cross: · I live in a block of flats at the junction of Cambridge Road and Kilburn High Street.· One of Britain's worst rail accidents happened at Clapham Junction.
especially American the place where two roads cross each other: · The intersection is one of the busiest in the city.intersection of: · We waited at the intersection of Fulton Street and Gough Avenue for the lights to change.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=a place where you can join or leave the motorway)· Their stores are all situated near major motorway junctions.
(=place where two or more roads meet)· It was a busy road junction.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Look to turn right, across a busy junction at the end of the motorway.· Giving buses priority at busy junctions would also speed up travel times, says Mr Tapper.· It avoids some nasty main roads and busy junctions, including roundabouts.
· A dangerous junction in Darlington could soon be closed to motorists after a series of accidents.· New risk determination procedures introduced after the three crashes revealed Newton to be the most dangerous junction in the country.· Installing cameras at dangerous road junctions to film those who drive through red traffic lights.· Thus at dangerous junctions risky events are easily recognized, but a safer junctions non-risky events are best recognized.
· These numbers are surprisingly low, no junction had a mean accident or risk rating above the midpoint of the scale.
· The significant main effect of junction type for both descriptions and potential risks is difficult to accommodate within this framework.
· Morphologically, this barrier is provided principally with tight junctions between gastric surface mucous cells.· Meye etal reported that tight junctions in the canine gastric mucosa were significantly damaged by exposure to aspirin.· In our study, tight junctions were often characterised by discontinuity and decreased numbers of tight junctional strands.· In addition, hyperplastic tight junctions and free ending basal extensions of tight junctional strands were occasionally seen.· Using electron microscopy, Rubin etal showed that the tight junctions appeared morphologically unchanged in untreated coeliac disease patients.· Electron microscopy showed typical gall bladder epithelia with microvilli, tight junctions, and mucus droplets.
NOUN
· But we need explosives to take out the island or the junction box up above.· Fans up to 35 pounds can be installed in a secured junction box, but anything heavier will need additional support.· This in turn led to the arm and gun junction boxes being redesigned horizontally next to each other rather than grouped centrally at the front.· With the junction box method of wiring, you may simply be able to re-use the cable for the new light fitting.· Option 1 is to connect the supply cable as a spur to an existing loop-in ceiling rose or junction box.· Draw the cables up into the ceiling void, and reconnect them to a four-terminal junction box.· Not that you could take what was left of your mind off the sockets and the junction boxes.· Option 3 involves making a brand new connection to an existing lighting circuit at a convenient point, using a four-terminal junction box.
· Interestingly, gap junctions in patients with recurrent ulcer were much fewer than in patients with first onset ulcer.· These results suggest that the loss of intercellular communication mediated by gap junctions may be associated with the recurrence of gastric ulcers.· The criterion for a gap junction was a minimum of 20 membrane particles in a plaque.· The patients with gastric ulcer had significantly fewer gap junctions than did the healthy volunteers.· Small gap junctions were observed between gastric surface mucous cells in all healthy volunteers.· There was no obvious relationship between age and the development of gap junctions in patients with gastric ulcer or in healthy volunteers.· These findings suggest that loss of intercellular communication via gap junctions is associated with gastric ulcer formation.
· Later the same day, Sugar was off again, this time to bomb the railway junction at Revigny.
· In Berlin, Friedrichstrasse meets Zimmerstrasse at a very ordinary road junction across which traffic flows freely.· Turn right and go to the Newport/Pontfaen road junction.· Over the weekend the army stepped up patrols across the West Bank and Gaza and placed armour at most road junctions.· Walk ahead on road, past first road junction on left, to chapel crossroads.· Thirty yards ahead, an innocent rural road junction presented its prosaic features for inspection.· Continue on rising path to road junction at Webbers Post.· Continue on to reach the road, turn right over it to cross the Nedd Fechan and go to the road junction.· At the road junction turn right to Roslin Farm and walk between the farm buildings.
VERB
· But instead of reaching the junction, his fingers closed around a slim square box.· He reached a junction only to find that the right-hand alley was blocked by a rusty bedstead.· Go east, south-east and east again to reach path junction.· I look round as I reach a junction in the corridor and he quickly pops back into his office.· I screeched back after her, reaching the junction in time to see her continue on her way to Wilmslow.· Turn left on reaching junction with hard track 5.· Cross the stile and turn left on to the lane, past a red-tiled cottage, until you reach a junction of tracks.
· Here each film shows a different junction so it is necessary to use a new method of dividing the data.· Using electron microscopy, Rubin etal showed that the tight junctions appeared morphologically unchanged in untreated coeliac disease patients.· The area shown is the junction of the San Juan and Colorado rivers in Utah.
· Subjects performed one practice trial using a junction not shown in the experimental stimuli before starting the description phase of the experiment.· You can also use these flashing tapes over mortar fillets used to seal wall-roof junctions, provided the mortar fillet is sound.· If the cost of fibres falls sufficiently, Telecom will start using fibres for its junction networks inside city areas.· The previous proposal to prohibit vehicles using the southern junction has been discontinued.· Option 3 involves making a brand new connection to an existing lighting circuit at a convenient point, using a four-terminal junction box.· Hong Kong might be able to deal with traffic by using key junctions.
a place where one road, track etc joins another SYN  intersection:  the junction of Abbot Road and Mill Street Junction 5 on the M40
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