flat store

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flat stores 复数 flat stores

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A crooked gambling establishment, such as a casino running rigged or fixed (dishonest) games of chance.

    俚语 游戏

    He had told me that in the old days in Chicago he had run a flat-store with a partner who had tuberculosis and also smoked cigars.

    The PDC uses the AD but exposes the data as a flat store, as in Windows NT.

    2001: Elizabeth A. Wheeler, Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America, p139 (The Rutgers University Press; →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13)); quoting an unknown source “It sat on the top of a steep, unpaved hill and commanded an uninspiring view of clean, gray concrete that was six lanes wide and an assortment of boxy, flat store buildings and spacious super gas-stations” (117).

  2. 2.

    A storage facility in which the material stored is simply piled on a floor (as opposed to a bin or silo).