| 单词 | gadget |
| 释义 | gadget (once / 2388 pages) n A gadget is a tool or device, especially one that works remarkably well for a specific task. Your dad's favorite kitchen gadget might be his special knife that cuts vegetables into spirals. The remote control your brother rigs up to the Christmas tree is a gadget, and your camping tool that folds out into various knives, corkscrews, and scissors is another kind of gadget. The original spelling was gadjet, and it's thought to have originated in the 1850's as sailors' slang, meaning any mechanism or ship part that either lacked a name or whose name had been forgotten. It may be rooted in the French gâchette, "piece of a mechanism." WORD FAMILYgadget: gadgeteer, gadgets+/gadgeteer: gadgeteers USAGE EXAMPLESBut the real game-changing gadget here is not on the weight room floor. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) An Israeli start-up will be showing off a gadget that promises to get us at least partly there. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) But some smaller agencies that lack money for pricey gadgets and new staffers are worried. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) n a device or control that is very useful for a particular job Syn|Hypo|Hyper appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gismo, gizmo, widget gadgetry appliances collectively gimbalan appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips injectora contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.) mod conmodern convenience; the appliances and conveniences characteristic of a modern house device an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose |
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