keel / kil /

💦中学词汇龙骨脊柱脊柱骨

keel3 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. 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.
  2. Literary. a ship or boat.
  3. a part corresponding to a ship's keel in some other structure, as in a dirigible balloon.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to turn or upset so as to bring the wrong side or part uppermost.
v. 动词组 verb
  1. 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

v. 动词 verb

fall

keel构成的短语

  • keel over
  • on an even keel

更多keel例句

  1. Melfi is the even keel to Tony’s volatility — a thoughtful, occasionally horrified audience surrogate.
  2. They sense that their ship of state is no longer on an even keel.
  3. But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
  4. Robert was out there under the shed, reclining in the shade against the sloping keel of the overturned boat.
  5. To maintain the vessel on an even keel he introduced four vanes, called “hydroplanes,” for regulating the depth of descent.
  6. 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).
  7. Microscopic examination reveals that there is a faint keel on the dorsal surface of the tip.