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caulking

/kawk/US // kɔk //UK // (kɔːk) //

填缝,填缝剂,填缝术,填缝工程

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to fill or close seams or crevices of in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
    • : to make watertight by filling the seams between the planks with oakum or other material driven snug.
    • : to fill or close, as in a boat.
    • : to drive the edges of together to prevent leakage.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also caulk·ing [kaw-king]. /ˈkɔ kɪŋ/. a material or substance used for caulking.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inclose
Antonyms

Examples

  • The boat is built entirely without caulking, with not a single butt in deck or hull.

  • If a short bend fitting is used, the matter of caulking is difficult.

  • This fitting is threaded on one end and has a socket on the other to allow for caulking.

  • I could see no connection between ant-heaps in a wood on shore and the caulking of a leaky schooner.

  • Her decks had been scrubbed until the caulking in the seams looked like lines of black paint on old ivory.