stovepipe

n. 火炉烟囱, 大礼帽

发音

US

词形变化

stovepipes 复数 stovepipes stovepiped stovepipes 三单 stovepiping stovepiping 现在分词 stovepiped 过去式 stovepiped 过去分词

别名

stove-pipe

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.

  2. 2.

    A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.

  3. 3.

    A stovepipe hat.

    商务 工程
  4. 4.

    A type of malfunction affecting breechloading firearms, where a spent cartridge casing fails to eject completely, instead becoming stuck in the firearm's ejection port, usually oriented vertically or nearly so.

    工程 政治 军事
  5. 5.

    A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.

    俚语 政治 军事
v.
  1. 1.

    To collect or store (information) in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.

    习语 及物
  2. 2.

    Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.

    不及物 工程 政治 军事

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词源

From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.

来源:wiktionary