cradle
支架,摇篮,发源地,摇篮式
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Definitions
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- : a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
- : any of various supports for objects set horizontally, as the support for the handset of a telephone.
- : the place where anything is nurtured during its early existence: Boston was the cradle of the American Revolution.
- : Agriculture. a frame of wood with a row of long curved teeth projecting above and parallel to a scythe, for laying grain in bunches as it is cut.a scythe together with the cradle in which it is set.
- : a wire or wicker basket used to hold a wine bottle in a more or less horizontal position while the wine is being served.
- : Artillery. the part of a gun carriage on which a recoiling gun slides.
- : a landing platform for ferryboats, rolling on inclined tracks to facilitate loading and unloading at different water levels.
- : Aeronautics. a docklike structure in which a rigid or semirigid airship is built or is supported during inflation.
- : Automotive. creeper.
- : Nautical. a shaped support for a boat, cast, etc.; chock.truss.
- : Shipbuilding. a moving framework on which a hull slides down the ways when launched.a built-up form on which plates of irregular form are shaped.
- : Medicine/Medical. a frame that prevents the bedclothes from touching an injured part of a bedridden patient.
- : Mining. a box on rockers for washing sand or gravel to separate gold or other heavy metal.
- : an engraver's tool for laying mezzotint grounds.
- : Painting. a structure of wooden strips attached to the back of a panel, used as a support and to prevent warping.
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cra·dled, cra·dling.
- : to hold gently or protectively.
- : to place or rock in or as in an infant's cradle.
- : to nurture during infancy.
- : to receive or hold as a cradle.
- : to cut with a cradle.
- : to place on a cradle.
- : Mining. to wash in a cradle; rock.
- : Painting. to support with a cradle.
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cra·dled, cra·dling.
- : to lie in or as if in a cradle.
- : to cut grain with a cradle scythe.
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Examples
Hot blue stars kicked out of their cradles may explain a mysterious ultraviolet glow that surrounds the disks of many spiral galaxies.
It sat last week in a special cradle among an estimated 300,000 other items housed in the 300,000 square feet of Navy storage space in Building 54 at the sprawling Defense Supply Center.
The wand and charging cradle are included in the first delivery.
It includes portafilter cradle which makes it more like a professional cafe grinder.
That the development of agriculture and proliferation of human civilization has only occurred within the cradle of the Holocene’s mild and stable climate is widely considered no coincidence.
You have focused on individual events and ideas in your books about Lincoln rather than the cradle-to-grave biographical approach.
His books include Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II and a novel, Last of the Red Hot Poppas.
Both Linda Perilstein, executive director of Cradle of Hope, and Leslie Case of Spence-Chapin, both declined to comment.
Doctors would not let the Cradle of Civilization come to this.
When it comes to art, we are taught from the cradle that copying is wrong.
She rose comforted, and drawing the baby's cradle out into the veranda, seated herself at her embroidery.
The scarlet calico canopy was again set up over the bed, and the woven cradle, on its red manzanita frame, stood near.
When the funeral was over, and they returned to their desolate home, at the sight of the empty cradle Ramona broke down.
From its very cradle socialism showed the double aspect which has distinguished it ever since.
Oh, yes,—he has served me from my cradle; and his plain honest heart feels for his mistress's fallen fortunes, and is heavy.