英语词汇“sleeve-valve engines”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

sleeve-valve engines

释义

sleeve /slēv/

noun

The part of a garment covering, or partially covering, the arm
A tube into which a rod or other tube is inserted
A tube, esp of a different metal, fitted inside a metal cylinder or tube, as protection or to decrease the diameter (engineering)
A thin cardboard container for a gramophone record
A wind sleeve
A drogue

transitive verb

To provide with sleeves

ORIGIN: OE (Anglian) slēfe (WSax sliefe)

sleeved adjective

Having sleeves
(in combination) having sleeves of a stated type, as in long-sleeved

sleeveˈless adjective

Without sleeves
Futile, vain (see errand)

sleevˈer noun

An old, esp Welsh, measure for beer, containing about three quarters of a pint
A straight-sided beer glass

sleevˈing noun

Tubular flexible insulation for threading over bare conductor wires

sleeve board noun

A small board for ironing sleeves

sleeve dog noun (old)

A little dog that could be carried in the sleeve

sleeve fish noun

The squid

sleeveˈhand noun (Shakespeare)

A wristband

sleeve notes plural noun

The text on a record sleeve

sleeve nut noun

A double nut for attaching the joint-ends of rods or tubes

sleeveˈ-valve engine noun

A type of engine in which two cylindrical metal sleeves, one inside the other, slide up and down on a film of oil, providing intake and exhaust passages as the port openings pass each other

sleeve waistcoat or sleeved waistcoat noun

A long-sleeved waistcoast, as worn by hotel porters, etc

keep something up one's sleeve

To keep something, eg information, in secret reserve

laugh in or up one's sleeve

To laugh privately or unperceived

roll up one's sleeves

To get down wholeheartedly to a job, esp an unpleasant manual one

wear one's heart on one's sleeve see under heart

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