| 单词 | kiosk |
| 释义 | kiosk (once / 7710 pages) n A kiosk is a small booth or stall. Shopping malls and airports have retail kiosks that sell all sorts of things, ranging from cookies to cell phones to sunglasses to perfumes to newspapers to . . . well, really almost anything! You're probably familiar with retail kiosks, since they always seem to be located in highly visible areas of the mall, but there are other types of kiosks as well. Information kiosks provide helpful items to tourists, such as maps and pamphlets. You might also see electronic kiosks where you can buy tickets or get various types of information through videos or interactive presentations. WORD FAMILYkiosk: kiosks USAGE EXAMPLESBut with the rise of the mobile phone, the redundant kiosks are increasingly being put to inventive uses, from miniature art galleries to pint-sized pubs. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) EcoATMs pay you on the spot, using cameras in the kiosk to judge the condition of your used smartphone, tablet or iPod. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) The mall still maintains its gloriously 1970s and ’80s orange and yellow tile floors and walls, curved kiosks and fiberglass drop ceilings. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) n small area set off by walls for special use Syn|Hypo|Hyper booth, cubicle, stall confessional a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions polling bootha temporary booth in a polling place which people enter to cast their votes prompt box, prompter's boxa booth projecting above the floor in the front of a stage where the prompter sits; opens toward the performers on stage shower bath, shower stallbooth for washing yourself, usually in a bathroom call box, phone booth, telephone booth, telephone box, telephone kioskbooth for using a telephone tolbooth, tollbooth, tollhousea booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls voting bootha booth in which a person can cast a private vote closet a small private room for study or prayer |
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