| 单词 | friction match |
| 释义 | friction match (once / 179081 pages) n WORD FAMILY friction match: friction matches USAGE EXAMPLESThe first really successful friction matches were made in 1827 by John Walker, an English druggist. Piercy, Willis Duff, Great Inventions and Discoveries(2011) Secured behind one of her ears was a cigarette, while a friction match protruded from the other, ready for use. Ballou, Maturin Murray, Equatorial America—Descriptive of a...(2011) Friction matches appeared in 1836, and quickly supplanted the clumsy method that had been employed for centuries. Morris, Charles, The Greater Republic—A History of t...(2010) n lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction Syn|Hypo|Hyper lucifer, match fusee, fuzee a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind kitchen matcha wooden friction match that will light on any granular surface; useful to light wood or gas stoves book matches, safety matcha paper match that strikes only on a specially prepared surface slow matchmatch or fuse made to burn slowly and evenly igniter, ignitor, light, lighter a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires |
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