shim

FREQ #20180

n. 填片, 万能开锁片 vt. 用填片填

发音

其它 /ʃɪm/

词形变化

shims 复数 shimmed shimming shims 三单 shims shimming 现在分词 shimmed 过去式 shimmed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A wedge.

  2. 2.

    A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.

    Near-synonym: shimstock (uncountable)

  3. 3.

    A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.

    计算机 工程 数学
  4. 4.

    A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.

  5. 5.

    A small metal device used to pick open a lock.

  6. 6.

    A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.

  7. 1.

    A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.

    贬义 非正式
  8. 2.

    A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.

    贬义 非正式
v.
  1. 1.

    To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.

    及物/不及物
  2. 2.

    To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).

  3. 3.

    To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.

    及物 计算机 工程 数学
  4. 4.

    To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.

    及物/不及物

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词源

Unknown; from Kent. Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860.

来源:wiktionary