keel 的 3 个定义
- Nautical. a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull, extending from the stem to the sternpost and having the floors or frames attached to it, usually at right angles: sometimes projecting from the bottom of the hull to provide stability.
- Literary. a ship or boat.
- a part corresponding to a ship's keel in some other structure, as in a dirigible balloon.
- (6)
- to turn or upset so as to bring the wrong side or part uppermost.
- keel over, to capsize or overturn.to fall as in a faint: Several cadets keeled over from the heat during the parade.
keel 近义词
fall
由keel构成的短语
- keel over
- on an even keel
更多keel例句
- Melfi is the even keel to Tony’s volatility — a thoughtful, occasionally horrified audience surrogate.
- They sense that their ship of state is no longer on an even keel.
- But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
- Robert was out there under the shed, reclining in the shade against the sloping keel of the overturned boat.
- To maintain the vessel on an even keel he introduced four vanes, called “hydroplanes,” for regulating the depth of descent.
- The tip often forms an abrupt angle with the shaft and there is a keel on the dorsal surface of the tip (see figs. 5, 6).
- Microscopic examination reveals that there is a faint keel on the dorsal surface of the tip.